noob question, sorry :D No Deadline while pooling
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@kevmachine The Blue ports are USB 3, but is your drive USB 3 ?
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@haitch its a seagate backup+ 3tb im not sure how to tell if its usb 3 or 2. could it be a driver issue?
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@kevmachine Unlikely to be a driver issue - does the drive have a model number on it ? If so, what is it ?
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@haitch two numbers i see, one is s/n NA7DS80L and P/N 1KBAP2-501
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@haitch oh wait, maybe it is my motherboard, can you check. Its an MSI b250m gaming pro. maybe im confusing sata 3 with usb 3 wish i was more tech savy!
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To check if you have USB 3.0, go to Device Manager and expand the USB option. If you have usb 2.0 it'll say Universal Host. but for USB 3.0 it'll actually say USB 3.0.
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@kevmachine said in noob question, sorry :D No Deadline while pooling:
1KBAP2-501
This has a Seagate SMR (shingled Magnetic Recording) drive - these mine fine, but are a PITA to plot. It's going to take about a week to plot it. If you can, plot to another drive then copy to the external disk.
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@Zaza it says usb 3.0 exensible host controller and usb 3.0 root hub.
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@haitch i already plotted it, im just getting slow speed 14 mb/s when reading on the miner. takes almost a minute to read my 3tb plot, should be alot higher for 3.0. is it because its only using like 12% cpu it says?
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@kevmachine If your CPU is 4 core/8 Threadthen 12% is right. The miner uses one thread per drive. You could try jMiner to see if it's any faster.
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@haitch I tried its only 2 mb/s faster, my plot isn't optimized could that be the difference? I thought usb 3.0 should be reading at almost 100 mb/s?
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@haitch or is it because i only have the 1 drive? im gonna put a small plot on my c drive to see if it works any better
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@kevmachine HD Tune is a good app to see HDD performance. Optimizing your plot you'll see better read speeds, and generally using the GPU miner is faster than CPU
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@kevmachine Optimizing will be faster, especially if you've a small stagger. The smaller the stagger, the more drive seeks that need to be done, and seeks are slow. With an optimized plot there is basically one seek then contiguous reading.
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@haitch i don't get how to change stagger. I used gpu plotter and is stagger size the last line in the config? 0 0 2048 128 2048, so is 2048 stagger size? also i have 16gb of ddr 4 but if i change the last number to 4096 plotter crashes.