Chia is an eco-friendly cryptocurrency that operates on high-speed storage instead of power-hungry graphics cards. Early adaptors in China are already buying up high-capacity solid-state drives in bulk. If the coin is successful, it has the potential to cause mass SSD shortages.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Chia-a-cryptocurrency-that-benefits-from-high-speed-storage-could-trigger-SSD-shortages-in-the-near-future.533123.0.html
This makes it sound like chia eats ssds but that's not really the case. 1tb ssd generates over 400tb of plot space which is slower and cheaper hhd. You want fast ssd to plot faster at small scale but large scale goes to cheaper hdd and do raid instead and plot much more in parallel with hdds w/o worring about limit of writes. So hdd is the market getting hit.
I wouldn't mind this, really.
If this could grow and basically replace Ethereum, SSD manufacturers would have to work on improving SSD lifespan again, which might mean larger TLC dies.
Would suck for a while, but NAND manufacturers can scale to meet demand.
And this would hopefully replace Ethereum's Proof-of-Pollution and/or Proof-of-Oligarchy.
RAMdrive writing to HDD?