SSD manufacturer Crucial threatened to void the guarantees for the devices that were used to mine the Chia cryptocurrency but later denied this statement.
Last week, the company revised its warranty policy to include a clause stating that "using Crucial SSDs for crypto mining will void the warranty." The limitations even affected the high-write Crucial P5 model and could potentially be applied to SSDs already in use.
“The warranty covers only defects arising from normal use and does not include failures or failures resulting from misuse, neglect, abuse, including mining, and more,” Crucial's original statement, now archived, reads.
Later, the point about mining disappeared from the company's website.
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The representatives of Crucial said about the confusion that has arisen.
“Our current SSD warranties have not changed and are in two parts: calendar time (3 or 5 years) and/or total bytes written (up to 1200 TB depending on capacity), whichever comes first. These standard warranty terms apply to all Crucial SSDs,” they noted.
The publication suggested that the original fragment could represent not fully agreed changes to the warranty. However, company representatives denied this: “This is an effort to educate our customers who are planning to use consumer SSDs for crypto mining. The problem is not the nature of the application in question, but the large amount of data being written. The goal was to keep the consumer informed of any problems that might arise with applications that require intensive recording. Any confusion created by the blog post was completely coincidental."
Recall, according to experts, Chia mining reduces the lifespan of a 512 GB SSD from five years to two months. However, the creator of the coin, Bram Cohen, argued that this does not apply to corporate drives or hard drives.
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The Chinese company Galax refused to service under warranty the SSDs on which Chia was mined.
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