you make plot (1/2 free disk's space)
optimize it (need same space)
go to 1)
so you will have plots
1/2 disk's space, optimized.
1/4 disk's space, optimized.
1/8 disk's space, optimized.
1/16 disk's space, optimized.
1/32 disk's space, not optimized.
@nobody RAM volume does not really matter.
If you loose 1 drive of 4 - miner will try to get access to it, but other still works fine and will mining at 3 drives. http://imgur.com/a/0llBI my M:\ drive is dead yesterday
If you have many plots at 1 drive - you will loose 8ms per each for get access to it
@absolute1625 i have an odd issue like this when i first plot my external drive... i notice that my drive was very hot so i reboot the pc and when he turn of i unplugged the external drive. then i has go eat something and like 15 minutes later i pluged in the external drive again and all works fine... i think it has something to do with the long time writing at 100% on the HDD and in my case i think windows has something to do with this too xDD
@Leece ~for better understanding of plotting i think you should learn how to plot by using wplotgenerator through command line... That will give you some understanding about, stagger, plot, nounce... This could be very confusing in the beggining but should give you a full understanding of this terms...
@Leece Once the light goes on and you get the relationships between plots, nonces, stagger - it all suddenly becomes very easy, and the plotting is just a mechanical exercise.
@jervis Try this run.bat instead, rename it back to run_java_autodetect.bat and drop it in the appdata folder for the AIO. It's a lot better at finding your java and running the wallet. 0_1469760182075_run.bat
Edit by daWallet: The .bat file that starts is run_java_autodetect.bat
@burstout2016 'mismatch' telling you that a plotfile size does not match its name, so maybe you interrupted plotting once somehow ... use Blagos tool to get that fixed.
@Akrabovich - No bugs, issues are human error. Trying to use to much memory when plotting, failing to not overlap your plots, failure to understand what you're doing.This is not like GPU mining where you just point a miner at a pool and go for it, it requires you to think and understand.
@Castiel If you have multiple copies of the same plot, each plot will have the same identical best deadline. This is why it's so important to not overlap you plots. Scoop X of Nonce Y for your ID will always have the same DL - no matter if you have that plot once or 100 times. Same DL everytime. Make a bunch of sequential plots, that's the only way to improve your chances.