Bought 500TB now what? Newcomer to Burstcoin.
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Generally that is correct but the way that xplotter writes the plots its constantly slow. Also you can make the plots anysize you like so if you have say a 2TB drives you can use that to generate the plots and copy them off to the 8TB drives
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@manfromafar I thought or at least I've read somewhere the larger and the fewer files you have the better?
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@Moniva A single optimized plot is the best option, but plotting those on SMR drives is a night mare - over a week to plot a single drive. It's somewhat faster to mine to a "regular" drive, then move that file to the SMR drive. Ideally you'd have a regular 8TB drive - eg WD Red 8TB, where you can plot an optimized file, then move to the SMR. But if you only have a smaller drive, you can multi plot that drive and move each plot to the SMR.
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@Moniva correct OR you could raid them all together and the biggest single plot file :}
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@haitch, @manfromafar Do you guys think that if I make a Raid 0 array I could plot the whole 500TB at once? Could it be somewhat faster? If not I will order additional 12 regular drives so I can replot them.
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@Moniva The miners are multi-threaded, so can read multiple drives at once. That will be a lot faster than trying to mine a single massive plot file.
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I wouldn't recommend doing a large raid-0 since if one disk fails you have to replot everything from scratch.
Keepping them as single disks is the best bet unless you want to split the data off into other uses like 300TB to mining and 200TB to backups or other things.
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@Moniva If you have all segate drives, perhaps just using as many cpu threads as possible on as many machines as you have would be the best choice.
You would need 65 threads, so 6 of the same computers you are using. You will probably want multiple computers to mine as well. Maybe borrow a few for a little bit ;)
Do them all at the same time if you can...So all would be done in a week.
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@haitch Thx for the advice. Also, I've tried the xplotter with 11 threads it did the 500gb HDD for 2 hours ... with 14500nonces per min.
@manfromafar all of the space would be used for burst mining.
@ryanw I doubt it my boss or colleagues would appreciate if I show up at work with a box full of drives and occupy every PC in the room for plotting :D
Another quicky can I mine while plotting?
Thx for all of the advice fellas I will keep you updated as I progress.
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@Moniva Once you've completed a plot, you can start mining it - you can't mine a plot in progress.
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SMR? it will be nightmare ... i waked up,and bought PMR after testing SMR ... uff...good luck ...
it was big mistake buy your drives :(
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@pipop said in Bought 500TB now what? Newcomer to Burstcoin.:
SMR? it will be nightmare ... i waked up,and bought PMR after testing SMR ... uff...good luck ...
it was big mistake buy your drives :(What nightmare? You set the plotter to do 1TB file at a time check it every few days and move the completed files into the farm directory and you are mining while plotting.
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An other Option would be to Plott the SMR Drives simultaneously.
Set the Threads in Xplotter lower to find the optimum to the write speed and than copy the .bat File and set continuous start nonces (start nonce +nonces=next start nonce)
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@Zwurg said in Bought 500TB now what? Newcomer to Burstcoin.:
An other Option would be to Plott the SMR Drives simultaneously.
Set the Threads in Xplotter lower to find the optimum to the write speed and than copy the .bat File and set continuous start nonces (start nonce +nonces=next start nonce)Or try this:
https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/5307/how-to-attain-max-nonce-min-plotting-direct-to-smr-drives

