Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!
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@BeholdMiNuggets Once again I'll say, the only Burst drives I've had die have been Seagates, and I've lost around 30TB due to drive failure so far.
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@BeholdMiNuggets Barracuda Pro 10Tb prices still falling https://geizhals.eu/?phist=1479512, while other drives remain stable within this time period ... looks like a good drive, but i personally try to not pay more than 25€ per TB ...
But if 'enterprise' prices, i would prefer https://geizhals.eu/seagate-enterprise-capacity-3-5-hdd-10tb-st10000nm0016-a1418879.html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=pl&hloc=uk&hloc=eu with MTBF: 2,5 Mio. hours instead of MTBF: 1 Mio. hours for Barracuda Pro.@haitch would be interesting witch seagate model failed, also drive temp. has huge impact on lifetime ... i had 3 drives fail (not just bad smart values, but not working anymore) until now ... all over 7 years old and one of them was a seagate 1,5TB ...
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only had 1 drive fail myself it was a WD 750gig that origonaly came in a 500$ bestbuy off the shelf PC i bought back around 2009 or 2010
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@luxe said in Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!:
But if 'enterprise' prices, i would prefer the [Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD ST10000NM0016 /256MB 10TB] with MTBF: 2,5 Mio. hours instead of MTBF: 1 Mio. hours for the Seagate Barracuda Pro (ST10000DM0004).
Was wondering about the difference between those two. The Seagate Enterprise HHD is about 9% more locally. I suspect that the retail version has some consumer-friendly garnish, like encryption etc.
Sure it's annoying, but even if the Plotting & file Transfer process takes a week, it's not that onerous compared to the mining life of the target drive (eg. 3+ years).
What I don't know - The additional Burst-Mining capacity of a Fast drive with a large Cache, over a slower /cheaper HHD - And if that's a significant factor?
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@luxe This one was a a 5TB model - ST5000DM000. Had been running fine in an eSATA chassis for about a year, but failed within minutes of moving it to PennyWise.
The other Seagates I had fail were all 3TB models, not sure of model number - of a batch of 8 that I purchased 5 have failed.
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@haitch said in Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!:
of a batch of 8 (Seagate drives) that I purchased, 5 have failed.
Well, there are only Three major manufacturers of Hard Drives left. So if Seagate is out, then I guess that leaves Toshiba & Western/D. Thou I don't see much mention of Tosh' for Bursting hereabouts. Not sure why.
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@BeholdMiNuggets You missed HGST, Fujitsu, Maxtor and others. WD and Toshiba are my preferred drives though.
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@haitch said in Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!:
You missed HGST, Fujitsu, Maxtor and others.
Afik - Maxtor has been owned by Seagate since 2006, Fujitsu has been owned by Toshiba since 2009, & HGST has been owned by WD since 2012. WD is probably the largest, thou I don't know the current market share of each of the big three.
https://www.neowin.net/news/western-digital-becomes-worlds-largest-hard-drive-maker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers
As per Wikipedia etc.(©cc-ac).
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I think today it is worth to start mining, the price is 10k = $113.79 (0.06440000 BTC). I want to buy 2x Seagate 8TB (18TB in total) to start mining.
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@kiknaio current block reward is 1840+Fees ... block reward decreases 5% each month, it was 10000 back in 2014.