can i mine burstcoin using 1tb usb flash drive??
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Yes.. be careful with cheap TB. The prices are very similar everywhere on the world (which is btw perfect for the distribution of mining capacity):
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@Zeus Hitachi 7K3000 at amazon, went a little up in price do (w/ 10 dollars)
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@daWallet I only buy harddrives with reviews :)
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I tend to stick to known brands of harddrives, in particular Western Digital. Currently investing in 8 TB drives to keep increasing my mining. Should have my 3rd early next month.
I definitely wouldn't buy thumb drives for mining burst though, its more expensive than its worth. Buy real harddrives, from known vendors of known manufacturers. That would be my recommendation.
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really great comments and lot to learn.
Does it matter if the storage is ssd/sata/sas or any other form of faster drives.
I guess I am asking is it worth investing in faster disks (with lower latency) or the cheaper storage is the way to go?
Thank you!
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@samreader1 Well faster drives would translate to faster read speeds. Faster read speeds are handy when someone comes across a very short deadline, like 20 seconds or less. That way you improve your chance to submit any deadline before that short deadline forges a block.
Another way to shorten your read speed is run the plot optimizer which significantly shortened my read speeds ( some by 10+ seconds). Keep in mind that when you plot a SSD there is no need to optimize, but I'd only do that if you have spare SSD space already. The extra cost of an SSD is not worth the investment for mining.
I believe the general consensus is aim for 7200 rpm HDD, either Western Digital or a Western Digital sold under the 'White Label' moniker. I've had good luck with white label drives from goharddrive.com.
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This explanation is to the point! Thank you @Hotdogler !
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@samreader1 if you use a GPU miner, you can get 50tb of hard disk drives and still read it in about a minute.
External hard disk drives are pretty much what i would suggest because SSD's cost a buttload.
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thank you @ddos.
Now you are have added another variable to the mix, CPU vs GPU. Now the next few questions are from Mr. Ignorant here:
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When I mine using the client interface, I usually hit the 'Start Mining (default)' button. How do I go about mining using the GPU (assuming I have one) miner?
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you can get 50tb of hard disk drives and still read it in about a minute
When you say the above, do you have your favorite set of hard drives that you use and recommend?
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@samreader1 I'm not exactly a hard drive connoisseur. I have a Western Digital drive i have been using for a while. I'm really going for drives that don't crash after a while and WD seems better than Seagate but still affordable. I think one of the devs could assist with the GPU. Look around on the forum. Sometimes people ask the same questions when the answer is on the forum somewhere. Try the searchbar, I've never tried using GPU before, but it is theoretically a lot faster than CPU and makes the difference between a HDD and an SSD with GPU mining very slim.
