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Buy a 1.6 or 2TB data center NVMe SSD for plotting, which can be found used for around $200. These will perform as well or better in plotting as a high-end consumer M.2 NVMe, and have 3-10x the endurance (which we need for plotting). Some models to look for on eBay, Craigslist, or other used venues are Intel P4610, P4510, Samsung PM983. With madMAx chia plotter we are targeting 4TB/day out of this budget build with plot times of 38 minutes.

There is a pretty large difference between the fastest SSD in the world and a cheap consumer NVMe for plot times. One year after the original budget build, the SSD picks are still relevant for data center SSD for plotting. Intel and Samsung are still the largest data center SSD vendors (although Intel NAND SSDs now are part of Solidigm), but you can find awesome picks from SK hynix, Kioxia, Micron, and others. Selecting the SSD will depend on the number of cores for the plotting system, and of course, the budget. We now have the madMAx Chia plotter integrated into the Chia application for CLI and GUI, and plotting is much, much easier than it was one year ago. In the budget build, we try to recommend an SSD for around $200. Today, this will buy you a mainstream 2TB consumer NVMe, or, what I recommend instead, a used 1.6-2TB enterprise or data center SSD.

If you are looking for something to max out the performance of a 16 or 32 core machine, you will need something more than a $200 SSD! I’ve done other videos of super high-end plotters, like the beast, and tested the Chia optimized plotting SSDs, which I still recommend the Intel/Solidigm D7-P5510 just because it is such a good all-around drive, and of course, Optane SSDs if you can afford them.

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