Picking a pool with slow USB speed
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@haitch Oh man it took forever to plot these drive I didn't know the stagger size had to be a calculation I think I just watched IMineBlock's youtube video on creating plots and he just said make it based on the RAM you have on your video card? I thought it just made you create plots faster or slower?
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@weaveR The stagger isn't critical - it's the geek in me that uses powers of 2, but if you can optimize the plot or replot with optimized stagger, it'll be faster.
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@haitch I wish the GPU plotter did that automatically for you is the new CPU plotter much slower?
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@weaveR The gpuplotter can also do optimized, you just tell it to generate direct instead of generate buffer - it's slower, but creates the fully optimized plot. Depending your CPU/GPU - GPU is normally faster.
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@haitch I think the GPU would be faster its a Titan X as apposed to a 2011 technology 3930k CPU.
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@weaveR Yep, I'd presume a lot faster.
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openCL reads 95mb per second for me as opposed to 44mb per second with default or avx is launched from burst client. i am usb3 user. And my gpu is a budget nvidia 730gt (And a single 4TB plot) hope this helps! :)
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@ZapbuzZ Yeah I get about 60-100mbps when all the drives are scanning at once with AVX but each drives doing only like 14 - 31mbps for me
@haitch I've got 2 6TB drives I probably could wipe one and optimize one of the drives plots then replot the 2nd drive does it take long to optimize with the optimizer?
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it took me 5 days to plot 4tb with cpu plotter and 15 hours to optimise it with optimiser thats with AMD cpu (4gb ram)
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@weaveR Generally less time than plotting, but there is a lot of disk activity so it'll take a while.
But if you use the Titan X - you can plot them optimized from the get go.
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@ZapbuzZ Lol wow I managed to plot 6TB in about 2 days the Titan X must be good at plotting it lags the hell out of my computer when I do it.
@haitch Yeah copying terabytes of data to a mechanical drive takes a long time.
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@ZapbuzZ I have a 1.2 TB NVMe SSD ......
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1 TB would give you bugger all burst coins anyway
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@weaveR It was about $650-$700 from memory, and I don't mine with it :) It's the primary drive in my primary PC.
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@haitch Hah I'm a mechanical drive man I use 2 TB's mirrored for my primary OS drives it's slow but at least I won't lose my data if one of them die I've nearly lost my data twice already because of 2 drives dieing lucky I had a backup.
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@weaveR My important data is in dropbox, I lose the drive, not the end of the world - and the endurance of this one is supposed to be great.
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@haitch Don't you have to pay a subscription for that? I'd probably just upload to my google drive for free or get a backup drive if I didn't already have a mirror, I did have a backup drive too but now thats being used to get burst coins

