Growing demand for hard and disk drives has been recorded ever since the appearance of the “green” cryptocurrency Chia (XCH), which utilizes spare storage space for verifying blockchain transactions.
This year’s April analysis performed by research company Context revealed a monster sales growth as the demand for high capacity storage space gear exploded, compared to April 2020.
Sales in numbers
The year-on-year data showed a staggering 240% sales growth as under 200,000 enterprise-grade nearline storage drives of 10TB capacity and above were sold.
In addition, a 167% sales increase was recorded as around 250,000 NAS consumer-grade HDDs were sold, while surveillance disk drive gross sales almost reached 200,000, going up 116%.
“For sure it is Chia,” said Gurvan Meyer, a senior enterprise analyst at Context, to The Register news, adding that such an upswing in demand following the launch of Chia took everybody by surprise, including major hard and disc drives manufacturers
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