Not sure if I'm doing this right :(
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@rds Looking at one of my 5TB drives, it has a single plot file, with # nonce = 19,073,792 - that drive has 768KB of free space. For his plot with 1,734 extra nonces, his 5TB drive would need to be 454MB bigger than my 5TB drives. That's why I wanted the exact number of bytes.
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I can't read spanish, but you need to delete all partition first. Then run the HD pro tests, then go back to the formatting.
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Sorry hehehe.... It says deleting the partitions... (didn't know it had partitions in it in the first place) Is it normal that this procedure takes some time? just so i can know if im doing it correctly
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@TellezMiotta , no, it should take no more than 30 secs. The program estimates the time, what did it say?
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Ok... it literally took the whole night BUT I think i deleted the partitions on the hard drive.... is this how it should look like?
For some reason i'm still not able to apply a write test... but this is how the read test looks
When i try to do a write test it still says that i have to delete all the partitions to make the test but why? if supposedly i have deleted all the partitions on the drive :S
Please help :S
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Also... I no longer see the hard drive on the windows explorer ... don't know why? did i do something wrong?
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Ok i restarted the rig and I can't see the hard drive anywhere on windows o.O
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ok, the drive looks good. Follow the next step. You need to format it, assign a drive letter, and then reformat to 64k cluster (optional but preferred for plot files).
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@rds said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
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I think i already formated it... (im not sure) I tried to plot it again via .bat file and kep giving me the same error.... I'm plotting via GUI now :S it's the only way that it works aparently.... here's an ss
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If you already formatted it, how could you not know? Can you see it in windows explorer? Is it assigned a drive letter? Come on??
At 1371 n/min that 1/tb file will take you about 4 days, be patient.
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@rds Yes.... I can see it on windows and it has a letter assigned to it... do, yes?
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Ok.... I can wait 4 days as long as I can keep mining ETH....
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Ok guys... somethings I consider important to share in here (maybe the more experienced guys know it already but anyhow)
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When trying to plot via .bat it didn't worked because you recommended me to user Xplotter_avx.exe .... My processor is a celeron... according to this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions my processor does not support AVX (I didn't even know what was AVX until now) ... when plotting via GUI I now realized that it was plotting via sse (which I don't know what that stands for either)
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I already plotted my first 1TB and plotting the 2nd while mining burst and eth at the same time... I have found some DL... like every 5 or 6 rounds (on .eu is that for enough?)
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SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions - advanced math operations the CPU supports. Much better than what came before, but not as good as AVX.
Every 5-6 rounds is low for .EU, but will increase as you plot more. How much do you have plotted so far ?
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Im plotting with just 1TB plotted..... meanwhile plotting the 2nd terabyte ....
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Ok! I have two plots already! So... what should I do? Should I plot a third file (1tb size) or should I optimize the ones that I already have?
Can I keep mining ETH and Burst while optimizing plots as well? :) Thanks in advance! :D
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@TellezMiotta Yes you can still mine ETH and Burst + optimize plots but the plots you are optimizing will not be used when mining until they are finished and you restart the miner. Keep in mind that if you mine ETH and Burst under the same device (CPU + CPU) or (GPU + GPU) it will significantly reduce your mining speed/hashes. Since the plotter relies on the CPU and so does the miner a little bit, not sure if it will reduce your mining speed. Use your GPU to mine ETH and the CPU to mine Burst.
Also, it's good to have as much space as you can get plotted. More Terabytes = lower deadlines and more deadlines. (Lower deadlines is good. More deadlines is also good.)To tell if the plots are already optimized:
Example
2758679861088131964_319917131_1024444_1024444 <- Optimized
2758679861088131964_319917131_1023744_10101010 <- Not optimized
(These are fake numbers; I changed them up.) (Keep in mind the following to tell if they are optimized: After the second underscore is there you determine if they are optimized or not. If they are already optimized, don't worry about optimizing them. Optimizing them again is just useless.)Edit:
In a nutshell; if the last couple digits after the second underscore are the EXACT same, you are good to go. It's already optimized.
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So, this ones are optimized already? That means that the Plotter that i'm using created the plots already optimized :D






