A series of Acer-branded laptops have just been released PHOTO: ACER According to Engadget, Acer’s upgraded ConceptD 5 laptop combines an H-series processor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 mobile GPU for ray tracing. Users can purchase them in configurations with up to 64 GB of RAM and up to 2 TB of SSD storage. They have a 16-inch 3K display with a 16:10 aspect ratio. ConceptD 5 is capable of 4K video processing, 8K editing, multi-application, multi-monitor workflows, as well as 2D and 3D software rendering programs. They come with several connectivity options like 2 USB-C ports, Thunderbolt 4 support, HDMI 2.1 and an SD card reader. Acer also gives users a choice of ConceptD 5 Pro laptops with Nvidia RTX A5000 or RTX A3000 GPUs. Since both are professional-grade graphics cards, these options will require consumers to spend more money than the non-Pro ConceptD 5 laptop. Meanwhile, the ConceptD 7 Ezel convertible laptop model has also been updated with Intel’s new 11th Gen Core i7-11800H processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 mobile GPU. It features a 15.6-inch 4K display and configurable with up to 32 GB of RAM and up to 2 TB of SSD storage. The device has a variety of usage modes thanks to Acer’s flexible hinge design and comes with a Wacom ER pen. Like the ConceptD 5, the ConceptD 7 Ezel also comes in a pro version powered by Intel’s Xeon W-11955M processor with Nvidia’s professional-grade RTX A5000 or A3000 GPU. Finally, Acer’s mid-range ConceptD 3 devices have also been upgraded with 11th Gen Intel H-series processors and Nvidia’s RTX 3050 Ti mobile GPUs. They are available in two variants, the standard ConceptD 3 and the convertible ConceptD 3 Ezel. Acer has also rolled out Pro versions of both, with Intel’s H-series processors bumped up to Core i7 options and Nvidia T1200 mobile GPUs. All ConceptD 3 models feature FHD displays, SSD storage, and Thunderbolt 4 support. ConceptD 5 will be the first member of Acer’s new product series to be released, with a starting date of July with a starting price of 2,199 EUR. Other laptop models launched by Acer this time include ConceptD 7 Ezel, ConceptD 3 and ConceptD 3 Ezel priced at EUR 2,699, EUR 1,299 and USD 1,600, respectively.

“Our innovative ConceptD series of PCs are well received by content creators around the world,” said James Lin, General Manager of Acer’s Notebook business. “We are excited to expand our offerings, working with Intel and NVIDIA to empower talented creatives with even more powerful tools that deliver efficiency, value and usefulness. for their work.” Notebook ConceptD 5 and ConceptD 5 Pro Designed for 2D and 3D workflow, the ConceptD 5 all-metal notebook (CN516-72G) combines the new 11th Gen Intel Core H-series processors and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics. The ConceptD 5 Pro (CN516-72P) model is also available, with either NVIDIA RTX A5000 or NVIDIA RTX A3000, for creators looking for best-in-class performance. The RTX A5000 graphics card empowers content creators to bring Ray Tracing and AI to the top of rendering, 8K editing and multitasking. With up to 64 GB of DDR4 3200Hz RAM and 2 TB of 4th Gen PCIe M.2 SSDs, they provide the power and storage needed to handle 4K video, multiple monitors, or 2D rendering applications, and 3D. Acer’s Vortex Flow technology, with a 3-fan layout (including one 3D AeroBlade 5th generation fan) purposefully arranged to provide additional cooling for the CPU and GPU, allowing for increased performance. when handling heavy tasks. Complementing all this power is a stunning PANTONE-certified 16-inch 3K (3072×1920) display that supports 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, plus Delta E < 2 color deviation. Ultra-thin bezel design, 87% screen-to-body ratio while 16:10 aspect ratio offers many benefits to professional creators. When compared to the more widely used 16:9 aspect ratio, 16:10 gives creators more screen space to watch videos or handle multiple music tracks without having to hide the whimsical taskbar. preview window size. This notebook includes a wide range of connectivity options: two USB Type-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 support, HDMI 2.1 port, SD card reader 7.0 and more. The keyboard and touchpad are designed to reduce noise as well, eliminating an additional distraction that can interfere with the user’s creative thinking circuit, and the 6-inch-wide touchpad is equipped with tempered glass. Corning Gorilla Glass also has a fingerprint sensor for added convenience and security when logging in. Notebook ConceptD 7 Ezel is adjustable The ConceptD 7 Ezel (CC715-72G) creator foldable flagship notebook has been upgraded with a new 11th generation Intel Core i7-11800H processor and up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 laptop graphics card. ConceptD 7 Ezel Pro (CC715-72P) model is also available, up to Intel Xeon W-11955M processor and NVIDIA RTX A5000 or A3000 graphics card for creators looking for even more performance for applications and professional support. Paired with 2TB PCIe SSD and up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM, it’s the ideal choice for creators who deal with large files and use multiple applications at once. Plus, the latest model includes 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports that deliver 40 Gbps of bidirectional bandwidth, blazing-fast conversion speeds, and the ability to connect up to 5 Thunderbolt devices – all with one port. Finally, the new super-responsive Corning Gorilla Glass touchpad makes navigation smooth and incredibly easy. Another feature worth mentioning is the superb 15.6-inch 4K touchscreen display that is PANTONE certified and features 100% Adobe RGB color gamut coverage and Delta E < 2 color deviation. The display is adjustable. This is enhanced by the innovative Ezel Hinge design, which combines the familiarity and comfort of a traditional laptop with Float, Share, Pad, Stand and Display modes to help you be more productive. The laptop also includes a Wacom EMR pen, appreciated by artists who rely on the precision of a digital pen for sketching, animating, and 3D modeling. Notebook ConceptD 3 Adjustable Ezel and ConceptD 3 Acer has also updated the ConceptD 3 series, which includes an adjustable 14-inch display (CC314-72G) and a traditional design (CN314-72G). ConceptD 3 Pro (CN314-72P) and ConceptD 3 Ezel Pro (CC314-72P) will also be available, both with up to 4.6 GHz Intel Core i7 processors and NVIDIA T1200 laptop graphics cards. ConceptD 3 All ConceptD 3 sizes and models have been upgraded to include 11th Gen Intel Core H-series processors. Commercial and consumer models will ship with a variety of graphics card options for suitable for different workloads and industries, including the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti card. All feature 4th Gen PCIe SSDs and a Thunderbolt 4 port that powers super-fast charging. ConceptD 3 Ezel This series offers powerful specs and creator-focused features at a mid-range price point. The models are adjustable with Acer’s Ezel Hinge technology, allowing them to be used in a variety of modes, as well as the touchscreen and the AES stylus. All ConceptD 3 notebook models feature FHD (1920×1080) displays that have been PANTONE certified for 100% sRGB color coverage and Delta E < 2 color deviation. ConceptD 3 Ezel Selling price and opening time The ConceptD 5 (CN516-72G) will be on sale in North America in August with prices starting at $1,999.99; in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in July from EUR 2,199. The ConceptD 7 Ezel (CC715-72G) will be on sale in North America for $2,499; in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in October from EUR 2,699; and in China in October from 29,999 yuan. The ConceptD 3 (CN314-72G) will go on sale in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in September with prices starting at €1,299. The ConceptD 3 Ezel (CC314-73G) will be on sale in North America in December with prices starting at $1,599.99; in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in September from EUR 1,499; and in China during the month from 12,999 yuan. Exact specifications, prices and opening times will vary by region. For more information on opening times, product specifications and market-specific pricing, please contact your nearest Acer office via www.acer.com

The new digital currency Chia consumes a lot of hard drives. Photo: Guardian The Guardian (UK) reported that American businessman Bram Cohen created a digital currency called Chia. Accordingly, Chia aims to be more advanced than Bitcoin and Ethereum in reducing the energy consumed to mine. Cryptocurrency mining often depends on high power consuming computers to handle complex algorithms. However, Chia requires the user to spend a large amount of control to form and store any number of numbers. Given the fact that the price of cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed in recent times, the demand for hard drives specifically for Chia mining has also skyrocketed. A type of semiconductor drive (SSD) called NVMe, which is used to generate random numbers, is also highly sought after. Over the past week, the prices of hard drives and NVMe have been on an uphill trend. One point worth noting is that SSDs are inherently limited in number. Digital currency expert David Gerard told the Guardian: “Instead of consuming power, Chia gobbles up SSDs at a special rate.” According to CoinMarketCap on May 26, in the last 24 hours, there was 50 million USD worth of Chia traded, quite modest compared to 50 billion USD of Bitcoin. However, Chia’s potential keeps the demand for hard drives still on the rise. In the past, graphics cards, which have been an important element of video games and artificial intelligence research, have also fallen into sharp shortages due to demand from Ethereum miners. In another development, on May 26, Iran issued a ban on Bitcoin mining to prevent power shortages.

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.

FlexXon introduces the X-PHY SSD with AI security. Photo: Flexxon Flexxon is a security company based in Singapore, specializing in the design, manufacture and retail of industrial NAND flash memory and storage devices. Flexxon also offers leading memory solutions ensuring the highest level of data security. A new product from Flexxon has been introduced as the world’s first AI solid state drive. New technology to protect data at the hardware level, SSD can protect from both remote and physical attacks. A wide range of features include temperature sensors to detect abnormal movements, detecting traditional threats like malware and viruses or tampering with drives or ransomware. However, Flexxon did not elaborate on the work of this intelligent protection mechanism but when something goes wrong, the X-PHY SSD will send an alert to the user by email and lock itself to prevent actions. vi is believed to affect the system. The user can then unlock the device through the dynamic authentication process. For customers with high security needs, data can be automatically deleted if the device falls into the wrong hands. It is very difficult to send emails about the status of the SSD when the PC is turned off and the operating system is not running, it is not clear how the X-PHY SSD will do this. The devices are manufactured in M.2 2280 and U.2 format and PCIe 3.0 x 4 (NVME 1.3) interface is used for connection. This series includes 512 GB and 1 TB capacities. This device is expected to be ordered and delivered to corporate customers in September this year, and by 2022 it can be mass produced for all customers.

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.

New cryptocurrency – Chia coin, also known as “Green Bitcoin”, was created by Bram Cohen, who is famous for his peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol. Hard drive fever from Chia The popularity of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin has led to a shortage of graphics cards when miners buy them in bulk. Now, Split coin – a new cryptocurrency set to create another component shortage, this time hard drives and SSDs will become hard to find. The increase in GPU supply will occur this quarter, said Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress, a multinational corporation for graphics processor development. So with any luck, the products might be a bit easier to buy in the coming weeks and months. “ The problem faced by the market was crypto miners who bought GPUs. In response, Nvidia released a line of dedicated mining graphics cards called CMP, which professional cryptocurrency miners are starting to buy. ”Kress said. The new cryptocurrency – Chia coin, also known as “Green Bitcoin”, was created by Bram Cohen, who is famous for his peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol development. According to the report, Chia used Bitcoin’s “proof of work” model instead of Bitcoin’s “proof of work” model. That difference means Chia is dependent on storage capacity rather than processing efficiency to mine, and a lot less electricity is wasted in the process. While Chia hasn’t been traded yet, it looks like potential miners in China are gearing up by buying as many hard drives and SSDs as possible, all drives from 4TB to 18TB in high demand. Prices are expected to rise and shortages are likely to be seen unless manufacturers react quickly enough to keep up. On China’s Taobao and JD.com e-commerce platforms, many large-capacity enterprise-class hard drives have been sold out. According to Jiahe Jinwei, one of the major domestic manufacturers in China, the Gloway and Asgard’s 1TB and 2TB high-performance NVMe M.2 SSDs have both been sold out. The manufacturer plans to put in place restrictions to prevent miners from buying large amounts of consumer SSDs. After that, the company will also increase production to meet demand. “ Farming on consumer SSDs is feasible, but more serious miners will likely be geared toward the business side. Durability is just as important as capacity and performance, and enterprise or data center SSDs often meet these three criteria. ”, Said Jiahe Jinwei. Back in 2018, Chia raised $ 3.395 million in “seed” funding, which demonstrated a great degree of interest in this new cryptocurrency. For the most part, that interest could be from investors expecting them to see the potential early and invest a lot when it first arrives. Along with that, many cryptocurrencies appeared and collapsed, so the formation and development of Chia also caused curiosity among the crypto participants. A few years ago, no one took Bitcoin seriously and today it has reached a value of over $ 65,000 / BTC. Cryptocurrency mining itself is the process by which a machine performs certain tasks, calculations validating transactions on the platform, and enhanced security, in order to obtain an amount of cryptocurrency. As a reward to miners for using their hardware to service network transactions, they charge transaction fees for the transactions they confirm. Although Chinese law does not recognize Bitcoin as a legal currency, the country does not completely ban Bitcoin mining. Even this billion-population country accounts for about 70% of bitcoin blockchain operations worldwide. The surge in electricity consumption related to cryptocurrency mining has also attracted the attention of Chinese regulators, amid the country’s efforts to save energy and reduce pollution. Inner Mongolia is a major bitcoin producer in northern China due to cheap electricity prices, saying it will close all bitcoin mining sites before May this year. Is there an abnormality? In addition to the hard drive craze, computer storage space has become a hot commodity lately, with protocols like Filecoin and Filebase rolling out to take advantage of unused storage. It seems that Chia is not without its drawbacks as some have tested and criticized its energy efficiency and pointed out that the rewards take 5 months to come true. Dividing into storage space rather than processing efficiency to mine and known as “green Bitcoin” is creating a hard drive race in Southeast Asia. Blockchain critic David Gerard warns that the reported shortage could have a direct impact on the cryptocurrency market and other industries. However, the project is going on an unusual path. Split no limit, prioritize constant inflation, is predictable as an alternative and the company has a cache of 21 million Pre-mined Chia. And while “spatial proof” is meant to strengthen decentralization, it’s a goal that Chia will not track for itself, rather, it will be made public. Besides that, a roster will allow proponents to treat Chia’s equity as a Chia coin ETF, using the 21 million Chia coin as the primary asset. Talking to the Business Forum, Mr. Dinh Hong Son, General Director of the new generation Finance Joint Stock Company, said that Chia is a digital currency that has appeared since 2018 but has not created a fever like today. The fever that the market is feeling is not the currency, but the market for the hard drives. In fact, large corporations in the world like Intel still do not show signs of “flinching” for shortages, maybe this is just one of the waveforms to push Chia’s appeal against the blur. its pale. “ This is also easy to cause local reactions, as many manufacturers tend to want to take short cuts by increasing production. While in the field of electronics, electronic components require many supporting details that must be processed in large quantities to ensure production as well as reasonable prices. Therefore, it is not known how sustainable or how long-term Chia is to be, but focusing on large-scale production can pose a risk to manufacturers. Hopefully, any impact on consumption patterns will be short-lived “, Mr. Son said. Currently, Chia has not appeared in Vietnam, but it is also necessary to observe and monitor this coin to avoid following the trend like the past Pi mining phenomenon. In particular, electronic component manufacturers or merchants avoid the “hugging” too large for hard drives or products with storage capacity, and at the same time push the prices of goods higher than their value. real.

• 1. Organize the system or reinstall the system;
• 2. Upgrade hardware;

My friend called and said that her books were getting slower and slower, let me have a look. Well, when I went to her house, I found that it took a few years of notebooks. It’s only strange if it’s not maintained or slow! . The boot time took more than 2 minutes, oh my god, using this book really requires a high level of self-cultivation to sit and wait slowly. I can’t bear this kind of afternoon tea rhythm, it’s so slow to open the webpage! Insert a USB flash drive, and the drive letter will appear after 2 minutes. You will feel that the whole world is slow during this process. I really admire and admire her, books can still be used like this. After finishing the system, it is still slow. Forget it, just reinstall the system. After reinstalling, the notebook is a little easier to use. After half a year, she called me again (I have helped her get this notebook several times) and said Books are slow again…

That won’t work! I’m very busy, I can’t always do this! Treating the symptoms like this does not cure the root cause. Just give her a showdown, you’d better spend some money to upgrade your books to a lower level, only in this way can the problem be completely solved. Books can be upgraded by hardware. You can increase the memory or replace the hard disk to improve the performance of the book. And among them, the effect of replacing the hard disk of the old notebook will be more ideal. Hey, if you have a friend, you will say that you are not right! Isn’t it better to increase the memory! Yes, before the emergence of SSD solid state drives, upgrading the memory can indeed improve the performance of the notebook, but after the emergence of SSD, replacing the old notebook HDD mechanical hard disk with an SSD solid state drive, the performance improvement of the notebook will be better and more obvious than increasing the memory. ! In order to be more convincing, I will use this to demonstrate an example operation below.

First of all, it is not difficult to replace SSDs. Friends who want to upgrade their books but don’t know how to start, can follow my steps. Pay attention to some details of my operation. First of all, let yourself calm down. Of course, it’s best to take a bath and change clothes. This is not because of the sense of ritual or other, but to release the static electricity on the body, so as not to damage the internal circuits and components of the notebook during the subsequent operation. . Of course, you can also touch the wall directly to discharge static electricity, the effect is actually the same.

Before starting to disassemble, make sure that the notebook is completely shut down and not in standby state, then unplug the power cord and remove the battery module from the notebook. These operations are to completely power off the notebook. Electronic products are most afraid of short circuits, static electricity and so on!

Then put the notebook inverted and lay it flat with the bottom of the notebook facing up (before operation, it is best to put a soft pad under the operating platform to prevent the notebook A panel from scratching). Observing the bottom of the notebook, there is usually a small independent panel window fixed with screws. The location of this window is the installation location of the notebook’s hard disk and memory.

Sure enough, the notebook memory is another slot. Upgrading the memory means that the original replacement has to be thrown away. The effect is effective but the cost is higher, and the replacement of the memory will also cause version problems and compatibility stability. Therefore, under normal circumstances, I do not recommend upgrading the memory.

This position is the hard disk position, you can see that the hard disk position uses insulation reinforcement protection. Before disassembling, you must see the position and direction of the hard disk socket, and use a screwdriver to remove the fixing screws. Then use a little force to remove the hard disk in the opposite direction of the socket.

Well, the SSD solid state drive replaced this time is ORICO’s Xunlong series H100. There are several considerations for choosing this brand of SSD.

• 1. High cost performance, pay attention to activities, there will be great discounts;
• 2. The 5-year warranty is the most important thing to replace and repair;
• 3. Fast speed, both reading and writing have reached 500M/S;
• 4. 3D NAND flash memory TLC particles, stable and durable;
• 5. Aluminum alloy shell, fast heat dissipation, sturdy and durable;

From the appearance point of view, this ORICO Xunlong series of SSD solid state hard drives are very good in physical workmanship. Because it is for friends to upgrade and warranty reasons, so this time I will not disassemble it to see the internal materials and workmanship.

Disassembling the hard disk is very simple. One thing to pay attention to is to observe the installation direction of the hard disk, especially the direction of the socket. The socket direction of different brands of notebooks is roughly the same, but there are some differences.

Fix the SSD to the hard drive bracket as it is. When screwing the screws, be sure to locate one of the screws first, and then screw the other diagonally, do not lock it, so that diagonally can be better fixed in place, this method is suitable for fixing screws of any product, including replacing car tires!

The replaced old hard drive can also be fully utilized. For example, add a hard drive box or this more advanced “mobile phone backup treasure”, and it will become a very useful mobile hard drive. Compared to upgrading the memory, upgrading the hard disk is more cost-effective! After installing the SSD, restore the back cover of the notebook, put the battery back in the notebook, and plug in the notebook’s DC power supply (must be plugged in, the performance of the notebook battery is basically not very good, and the subsequent system installation will take a certain time) , Now the new system installation is started.

Before the system is installed, press F2 (most books are this key) to enter the BIOS to open the AHCI setting operation (AHCI (Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface) Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface/Advanced Host Controller Interface). Under the guidance of a number of companies, an interface standard jointly developed by a number of companies, which allows storage drivers to enable advanced serial ATA functions). AHCI is turned on because the highest IDE standard is 133m/s of IDE5. Therefore, in order to meet the SSD speed requirements, you must turn on the 150MB/S or even higher speed requirements supported by AHCI! Whether SSD performance can be fully utilized is very important and critical. Then you can install the WIN system by partition!

Install the pre-prepared WIN system through the U disk PE. The process is very simple. In the PE system, the SSD can be partitioned, formatted and 4K aligned.

When booting, press ESC to enter the startup disk, and be careful not to make a wrong selection.

PE one-key GHO installation of WIN system is currently the easiest way, basically one-key automation can be achieved, it is really convenient. However, such GHO files will be more or less implanted in third-party software or have security vulnerabilities. It is recommended to install genuine anti-virus software immediately after the system is installed for full detection and uninstall all software applications except the system before proceeding. Genuine installation. Of course, the safest way is to install the genuine WIN system, which is up to you to choose.

After replacing it with an SSD solid state drive, the system boot time is more than 2 minutes before the replacement, and now it can enter the system desktop in 12 seconds. This is the most intuitive and visible improvement brought by the SSD solid state drive. Even if more applications are installed later, the system startup time will not exceed 20 seconds after one year or two. This improvement is comprehensive, especially when using large software such as PS to open large PSD files or enter games, open web pages, etc., there will be obvious improvement changes compared to the previous ones.

Just replacing an SSD, there is such a big improvement, why? In order to let everyone see the reasons for the increase in books more intuitively. So I conducted some random tests on the protagonist, ORICO Xunlong SSD H100, so that everyone can have a more comprehensive understanding of the true performance of the current SSD.

As tested by AS SSD Benchmark, the AHCI has been activated this time, the 4K of the newly installed ORICO Xunlong H100 has been aligned, and the SSD capacity is 953.86GB. AS SSD has a random continuous reading speed of 500.39MB/s and a writing speed of 438.87MB/s. Compared with the official data, its value is slightly lower, but the reading and writing speed is also very gratifying (the test hardware system application environment is different, resulting in The results will fluctuate). Random read and write performance of 4K and 4K-64K is also very impressive. By simulating the data test of ISO files, applications, and game running in daily applications, its performance on this old book is also remarkable.

The compression benchmark test performed well, and the running process was stable and consistent.

Then there are two other classic hard disk test softwares. The random test results are close and the data performance is excellent. The reading reached 530MB/S and the writing reached 470MB/S, which is basically close to the official value.

The old and newly installed SSD webpage loading test, open multiple webpages at a time, the operation process is smooth, the webpages are basically opened in seconds, compared with when they first got it, it is completely different from the world.

After personal testing, this old friend of my friend, with the blessing of the new SSD, has no problem playing games above 10G. Of course, limited by the performance of its GF 720M graphics card, its frame rate is still not enough for real players when playing large games.

The online video test is also very smooth, the audio and video are synchronized, and the progress is pulled randomly, all in one step and instant.

From the system startup to the software detection and the actual operation test of web pages, games and videos, the effect of this SSD upgrade is very obvious and very successful. As ordinary workers, money is hard-won. Doing the biggest thing with the smallest price is right. Friends who want to upgrade their notebooks can also follow this step. If there is anything unclear, you can leave a message after the text, and I will reply as soon as possible. Through this upgrade, I found that my Lenovo Personal Cloud T1 will also be upgraded. Adding an SSD of the same ORICO Xunlong H100 to it is a good choice.