@samreader1 I'm not exactly a hard drive connoisseur. I have a Western Digital drive i have been using for a while. I'm really going for drives that don't crash after a while and WD seems better than Seagate but still affordable. I think one of the devs could assist with the GPU. Look around on the forum. Sometimes people ask the same questions when the answer is on the forum somewhere. Try the searchbar, I've never tried using GPU before, but it is theoretically a lot faster than CPU and makes the difference between a HDD and an SSD with GPU mining very slim.
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