SSD makers are cutting down warranties and endurances due to Chia mining

The Chia cryptocurrency came into the limelight a couple of months back when it was noticed causing shortages in storage due to the way it is mined using free storage spaces. Obviously, manufacturers of storage too are aware of the situation and some of them have started responding with rather undesirable changes to a normal user. Among them is PNY which has recently been spotted reducing the write endurance which is denoted by Terabytes Written (TBW) on its XLR8 CS3030 lineup of SSDs by up to 79%. The TBW value shows the estimated amount of data that can be written to the SSD over the life of the drive.