Acer Nitro 5 2021 Acer Nitro 5’s cooling system includes two fans and optimized copper pipes. Acer claims to be able to help the machine improve heat dissipation by up to 25% compared to the previous generation. CoolBoost technology has the ability to increase fan speed and cool CPU/GPU by 9%. All can be tweaked through the NitroSense software that comes with the device. In terms of configuration, Acer Nitro 5 2021 offers 2 CPU options including Intel Core i5 11300H or Core i7 11370H. These are the 11th-generation Intel Core H-series processors that have just been launched by Intel with the new 10nm SuperFin process, all with 4 cores and 8 threads, a maximum TDP of 35W, a maximum clock of 4.40 GHz and 4.80, respectively. GHz, which promises a huge improvement in performance. Acer Nitro 5 is currently the first gaming laptop equipped with the 11th generation Intel Core i processor H series to hit the shelves in Vietnam market. Other parameters on Acer Nitro 5 2021 include GeForce GTX 1650 4GB DDR6 GPU, 8 GB RAM (upgradable up to 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM), 512 GB SSD M.2 PCle storage drive (upgradable). up to 2TB SSD with 2 M.2 SSD slots and 2 TB HDD). Regarding the screen, the new Acer Nitro 5 still owns a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS screen, 144Hz refresh rate and 3ms response speed, IPS panel. The machine has a full range of universal connectivity ports, including: one high-speed USB Type-C port supporting Thunderbolt 4, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, one HDMI 2.0 port supporting HDCP, one 3.5mm headphone jack ( headphones with built-in microphone), an Ethernet port, and a power port. It will also include Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX 1650i (802.11ax) and Killer Ethernet E2600 wireless connectivity for increased stability and network connectivity. The new Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop is now on shelves in Vietnam market with many different configurations, retail price starting from 23.49 million VND, comes with 3S1 warranty, fast warranty within 3 days from both Saturday and Sunday, more than 3 days 1 to exchange 1 new product of equal or higher value.

According to Mr. Cong, during more than 2 months of mining Chia, the actual amount of copper received back only stopped at 3 units. Currently, on the Huobi exchange, Chia is being valued at $820. This means that after 2 months and 3 billion of capital, he earned about 56 million VND. Fear of missing out on green Bitcoin The reason given by Mr. Cong is that although Chia saves electricity, it is difficult to compete with the super mines in China. Besides, the dramatic drop in the price of cryptocurrencies in the past week also increased the payback time of Chia mines. The hard drive is what determines the success or failure of Chia mining. “I invest a lot of money but I am quite vague about my income. The reason is that I fear that I will miss the opportunity to get rich like the way Bitcoin created 4 years ago. There were very few Bitcoin miners back then, I was one of the first. That’s why I have faith in Chia. But things don’t seem to be as I thought,” Cong said. According to Mr. Cong, his Chia mining system uses a 6TB HDD. Each of these hard drives costs 6.5 million VND. The number of hard drives in Mr. Cong’s mine is close to 300. Previously, the price of HDDs was only about 2-4 million VND. However, the wave of Chia mining has made the hard drive double in price. To cope with the huge write rates of Chia miners, many memory manufacturers have designed SSDs specifically for this purpose, like TeamGroup’s T-Create Expert model with a write limit of up to 12,000 TB. Amazon Web Services also recently opened a Chia mining service for the Chinese market. Hard drives increase in price, are in short supply but still have to buy more “In the game of chia mining, whoever has the most large capacity hard drives, that person has a higher chance of winning. And the winners at this point are the mining pools in China. They buy large quantities of hard drives at very high prices to gain an advantage in the market,” said Mr. Reply Zing , a representative of GearVN store confirmed the shortage of goods with large capacity drive models. However, this company’s customers, mainly individual users, have not been affected much. Hard drive prices have doubled since April because of the green Bitcoin craze. “GearVN’s customers are mainly end users and gamers, with a demand for hard drive capacity from 1 TB to 4 TB. In this segment, the price and supply are still stable,” a GearVN representative shared. This is also considered the biggest risk when participating in the “Green Bitcoin” market. According to experts, the difficulty of Chia mining is many times faster than Bitcoin. This means that mining systems must be invested with as many hard drives as possible. Previously, Bitcoin could be mined at individual scale because of the slow increase in difficulty. In the Chinese market, many traders have gathered thousands of hard drives to redistribute to Chia miners. According to ADATA, thanks to Chia, the number of SSDs sold by this company has increased 5 times in the past month. The shortage of goods makes many manufacturers of hard drives and SSDs prioritize serving the Chinese market. Order time in other markets is 2, 3 times longer. “In the past, every time a new order was placed, the waiting time was about 4-6 weeks. Now, the waiting time must increase to 8-10 weeks, high-capacity lines can sometimes be up to 13-15 weeks. Calculated, the standby time increased 2, 3 times, “said a representative of a distributor of the Seagate hard drive brand. Despite having an advantage in power consumption, Chia has a problem with mining materials, here is the hard drive. “I have to constantly buy hard drives while the price is getting more and more expensive. Without a hard drive, we wouldn’t have a place to store the strings of codes that can form a Chia,” said Cong. Uncertain future Chia was created by Bram Cohen, the “father” of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file transfer protocol. The company behind this currency is Chia Network, backed by investor Naval Ravikant, some well-known companies such as Andreessen Horowitz or Cypherpunk Holdings. From May 3, this currency will be publicly traded and exchanged. According to the Business Insider , Split based on PoST (proof of space and time) consensus algorithm. In it, PoS (proof of space) describes an allocated hard drive space for blockchain block storage. In other words, the “miner” Chia will reserve a certain amount of memory space on the hard drive to store blockchains. Mining is very little, but participants have to constantly buy more hard drives in order to have space to store the blockchain. They will be awarded based on the ratio of memory cells that “miners” have to store compared to the entire network, as verified by a VDF server (aka Timelord). Chia Network, the representative company, said that this currency has good security, consumes less energy than coins using the PoW (proof of work) consensus algorithm. Unlike Bitcoin, Chia has no limit on the amount of coins mined on the blockchain. Instead, the number of diggers that can be mined will change continuously depending on demand. Chia Network, the company responsible for this currency will hold 21 million Chia in order to control price fluctuations, reducing the possibility of problems. Although the future of Chia is envisioned as ideal, the coin has only been traded on a number of crypto exchanges since early May with the token XCH. At first, the price per dong has more than doubled from $700 on May 4 to $1,600. However, facing the decline of the entire cryptocurrency market, Chia also suffered a price drop. Besides, too much hard drive also makes the Chia project away from the original “green” purpose of the founders. The owner of the net shop unplugs the machine, digs coins and waits for the translation to end Due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, Mr. Nguyen Minh Quan (Thu Duc City) had to close the net shop, remove the graphics card to dig coins, earn extra income waiting for the reopening of the shop.

Nitro 5 still shows a typical aggressive style with two main colors black and red. In this year’s new version, Nitro 5 is renewed with two lightning lines on the A side, making this gaming laptop more aggressive than ever. The hinges are painted red on the overall black background of the machine, helping Nitro 5 have a design language that inspires fiery games. Acer Nitro 5 has four-zone RGB backlighting, highlighted WASD keys and navigation keys. The keyboard has high key travel and good bounce for more exciting gaming. Acer Nitro 5’s advanced heat dissipation system helps keep temperatures stable when operating at high performance. The laptop is equipped with a superior cooling system consisting of two fans and well-arranged copper pipes that improve heat dissipation by 25% compared to the previous generation. This is greatly optimized with CoolBoost technology that increases fan speed and cools CPU/GPU by 9%. All can be fine-tuned through the NitroSense software that comes with the device. The new Acer Nitro 5 comes with up to 11th Gen Intel Core processor and GeForce GTX 1650 GPU. It is equipped with 512 GB SSD M.2 PCle (upgradable up to 2TB SSD with 2 slots). M.2 SSD and 2 TB HDD) and 8 GB RAM (upgradable up to 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM). This is the first gaming laptop equipped with the latest 11th generation Intel Core i processor to hit the shelves in Vietnam market. It owns a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS screen, 144Hz refresh rate and 3ms response speed for a smooth gaming experience. The machine has a full range of universal connectivity ports, including: one high-speed USB Type-C port supporting Thunderbolt 4, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, one HDMI 2.0 port supporting HDCP, one 3.5mm headphone jack ( headphones with built-in microphone), an Ethernet port, and a power port. It will also include KillerTM Wi-Fi 6 AX 1650i (802.11ax) and Killer Ethernet E2600 wireless connectivity for increased stability and network connectivity during intense combat. The new Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop is now on shelves in the Vietnamese market with many different configurations, retail prices starting from 23.49 million.

Over time, gamers and computer users have suffered from a shortage of high-end graphics cards due to the need to buy GPUs from cryptocurrency operators. Now, a new cryptocurrency called Chia will most likely cause similar problems for the storage drive market. According to the South China Morning Post , hard drive prices in China have risen sharply as miners rushed to mine and sell this cryptocurrency. “The price of hard drives keeps going up” Unlike Bitcoin, which consumes a lot of electricity and energy to process complex algorithms, Chia is mined based on a consensus algorithm and is one of the currencies advertised as being environmentally friendly. A Bitcoin mining facility in China. Cryptocurrency Chia aims to reduce environmental impact. Photo: Bloomberg. The founder of Chia is Bram Cohen, who is also a BitTorrent developer. Cohen said he would usurp the outdated industry with increasingly slow and costly documentation capabilities. Although Chia has not been officially traded on the market and only came into operation on May 3, the “miners” have rushed to buy and stock up a series of HDDs and SSDs. According to SCMP, panic purchases can lead to hard drives shortages, high prices and scarcity. On China’s Taobao and JD.com e-commerce platforms, large enterprise hard drives have been sold out. “There have been a lot of people asking to buy a large number of hard drives to exploit Chia in the past few days,” said a customer care worker at the online store Taobao of two major brands Seagate and Western Digital said. Hard drives were sold out on Chinese e-commerce sites. Photo: Weibo. Most business-class hard drives with more than 8TB of storage have already been sold, not sure when new products will be available, the vendor says. According to the manmanbuy.com A Chinese website that evaluates and compares product prices on popular e-commerce platforms, the price of a Western Digital hard drive with 12 TB of storage in February before The increase was 2,188 yuan (about $ 337). On April 8, the corresponding drive price increased to 3,499 yuan ($ 538) on JD.com. Seagate’s hard drive with 8 TB of storage before April 14 cost 1,150 yuan, but has since risen to 2,160 yuan, according to manmanbuy.com . Cryptocurrency miners Chia in China buys bulk hard drives in bulk at the store. In Huaqiangbei, the world’s largest electronics market in southern China, Shenzhen, some vendors said that they now only have a hard drive with less than 4 TB of storage and they don’t know when This situation has just changed. This person also confirmed that the price of a 4 TB hard drive will be a bit higher than the 700 yuan she used to sell before, because the demand from customers is growing. “At peak times, the prices of hard drives will be at least 60% higher than normal. The prices have come down a bit recently, but for now they are still around 50% higher, ”said a supplier named Chen. The topic of hard drive scarcity has become a hot topic, attracting a lot of attention and discussion on Chinese social networking site Sina Weibo, with tags attached to articles such as “rising hard drive prices” and ” Hard drive prices doubled in 10 days. ” “That’s it all, first the graphics card craze, then you guys switch to the hard drive. Now I can only buy one computer case,” said one netizen. on Weibo. Chia’s further goal In recent years, the increasing popularity and demand for computation has increased the value of virtual currencies like Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency mining has become popular and familiar to many people with knowledge of technology and computers. Although the Chinese government does not recognize Bitcoin as a legal currency, the country does not completely ban Bitcoin mining. According to an article recently published in Nature in April, China accounts for about 70% of all Bitcoin mining activities worldwide. Bitcoin mining currently consumes a lot of energy, leading to concerns about overuse of coal-fired electricity. Photo: DW. The increase in electricity consumption related to cryptocurrency mining has also caught the attention of Chinese regulators, as the country is making efforts to save energy and reduce pollution. environment. The leader of Inner Mongolia, the major Bitcoin producing region in northern China due to cheap electricity prices, said they would close all Bitcoin mining pools by May. The global Bitcoin mining network consumes about 113.88 TWh of electricity per year. If ranked as a country, Bitcoin would be the 33rd electricity consumer in the world, out of total consumption by the Netherlands and the Philippines, according to Cambridge’s Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index.

In terms of hard disks, the new version of Master Lu has improved the algorithm to adapt to SSD hard disks, especially high-performance hard disks in the PCIe era. There will be no point overflow at random.

Hard disk performance list: PCIe 4.0 butcher list

In terms of performance, PCIe 4.0 hard drives increased in Q1, and the read and write speeds of hard drives reached a terrifying value.In native support for Gen4 technology, Western Digital WD_Black SN850 won the first place in the hard disk performance list with its arrogant attitude of sequential read speed of 7000MB/s and sequential write speed of 5300MB/s.

The top 3 of the entire hard disk performance list are all hard disks that support PCIe 4.0.

However, it is worth mentioning that the fourth-ranked Samsung PM981 is not much lower in running points than the third-ranked GALAXY HOF Pro, and the gap between the two sides is less than 10,000 points.

In addition, Samsung also occupies half of the hard disk performance list, and the storage manufacturer is indeed well-deserved.

Ranking of hard drives as a proportion: top manufacturers share over 40% of the market

Compared to Samsung’s performance surpassing its rivals, the market performance is going to be a little bit down.Western Digital, Samsung, and Kingston, which accounted for the top 3 hard drive brands, stood firm.

Compared with mid-2020, Western Digital, Kingston, etc. have seen different levels of market share increase, and Samsung is the only brand among the top 3 manufacturers with a reduced market share.

The top 3 manufacturers accounted for 44.2% of the market share, and the living space of other manufacturers was further compressed.

The overall proportion of solid-state drives and mechanical hard drives has not changed much in the 2020 year-end report. Solid-state drives still account for more than 75% of the share, and the proportion of mechanical hard drives has been compressed to 24.15% again. With the price reduction of SATA solid-state drives, mechanical hard drives are eliminated The progress is accelerating again, but depending on the excellent storage capacity of mechanical hard drives, mechanical hard drives still have a place in the future in the short term.