Things that farming Chia will make you aware of.

When you farm Chia, the proof-of-space blockchained coin, you learn a few new things.

• Which PCIe generation your motherboard offers
• NVMe performance
• NVMe endurance
• The fstrim command
• XFS options like crc=0
• What the term JBOD means
• The performance of NFS over your LAN
• The thermal characteristics of your drives
• The difference between peak write bandwidth and sustained write bandwidth
• The Crucial P1 and PNY XLR8 have incredibly slow write bandwidth. Avoid!

So far, this has been a fully educational excercise, with zero financial pay-off: My 6 drives can't compete with the netspace. But stream-lining your computer for plotting was a fun exercise in optimization.

If nothing else, I at least got a rather popular Open Source Tool out of it, in my portfolio: ChiaHarvestGraph and its sister tools ChiaPlotGraph and ChiaHeightGraph.