Need help with a good mining rig



  • Hello, my name is Rafael S. im from brazil and just join the community 1 day ago. i bought some BURST from Poloniex a day ago cause i beliave in the project, not planing to sell it.

    I'm starting to spread burst to all my friends trying to get more ppl to this.
    I'm trying to build a mining rig to me and my friends and trying to support the comunity on youtube, just starting now.
    The question is, i need to get a large mining rig for the comunity we starting, any sugestions i dont know much about hardware so any help is welcome.

    And sorry if my english isn't good.



  • First of all: welcome to the community! :)

    You can search forum about "what harddisk to choose" for effective mining. Pre-info: DO NOT buy Seagate harddisk. Seriously, many of us got trouble with Seagate.

    Whenever you have questions, just feel free to ask.

    Happy mining! ;)



  • As @moonjeina said, stay away from Seagate. They have a bad reputation of dying after a year or 2 without any warnings.

    Stay with HDDs, why? Get the cheapest used one you can, (avoiding brands with bad reputation) and find a low powered cpu compatible with a motherboard with a ton of SATA ports (or PCI to SATA).

    There isn't much you can do to improve, just plot HDDs and mine them.



  • Thats my issue , trying to find a cheap way to do it, want to buy a mining rig for us, to start maybe with 10-20 tb and keep increasing. Bringing some friends with me, we believe in this project and we are supporting it.
    Its harder when you dont know much about hardware, and the country you live charge twice the price for everything.



  • How hard on cpu when mining, im mining on my desktop atm and its easy i know its like few seconds and then stop, but how a can low cost option like a apu or a lower end computer can run with a large mining rig?


  • Mod

    @skrafael you may use external GPU (GPU miner) and buy low-cost CPU


  • admin

    @skrafael I would buy an 2 to 5 year old Computer in a medium or big tower to start with. Step by step you will make your own experiences with adding more HDD. At some plot size it makes sense to read the disks additional with GPU instead of CPU only. It should have USB 3 and some Sata ports.
    I mined a quite long time with an HP Elitebook Nodebook from 2011 with USB 3.0 Express Card around 25 TB. It depends what hardware you can get for a low price or even for free.



  • Thanks for answers.


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