New to Burst.. Need help for best recommended configuration for Mining.
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Hi, am new to mining and request for best recommended hardware to mine burst coin.
- The HDD capacity should be attached via a NAS ( network attached storage) HDD should be SATA or SAS
- RAID 0 for speed or RAID 6 ( for data security) is recommended.
- CPU/ GPU
- Memory
Looking at 500TB or more ...
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- DAS preferred - unless you're on 10Gb Ethernet or Fiber channel the network becomes your bottle neck.
- The miners are multi threaded, with a thread per drive - best performance is obtained by having individual drives.
- Test - see which works better for you, it's going to depend on the capabilities of your CPU vs GPU, and where your system bottleneck is.
- For plotting, the more the better, for mining, doesn't matter.
500TB rigs are doable, I'm working on one, feel free to discuss your design plans here.
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@haitch thank you. will keep you posted.
BYW : What is plotting?
The miners are multi threaded, with a thread per drive - best performance is obtained by having individual drives.
You mean to say that should 6TB or more individual drives?
However what happens in the event if the HDD crashes?
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@edge4u said in New to Burst.. Need help for best recommended configuration for Mining.:
@haitch thank you. will keep you posted.
BYW : What is plotting?
Unlike GPU mining where the calculations are done on the fly, Burst uses pre-computed calculations that occupy your drives. These pre-computed values are then used to derive deadlines based on the precomputed value, difficulty and target value.
The miners are multi threaded, with a thread per drive - best performance is obtained by having individual drives.
You mean to say that should 6TB or more individual drives?
The miner I'm currently building has 24 x 8TB drives, and will be expanded with at least 45 more.
However what happens in the event if the HDD crashes?
Replace the drive, replot it, start mining it again.
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@haitch Thank you so much. Let me study more .. Very new to mining .. sorry would be asking dumb questions..
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@edge4u No problem, we were all new to Burst once, and the concepts are very different from "traditional" GPU mining.
There are no dumb questions - well, almost none ..... ;-)
