@BeholdMiNuggets said in Mining and Plotting: Need help with a group of questions:
Is it worth allocating one Fast Drive just for Plotting (assuming there are several workers)?
Yep, what @luxe said. Speed of the drives and cache can make a difference, but only if you have a GPU that can churn out nonces fast enough. I prefer to use my 7200 RPM NAS drives for plotting since they're noticeably faster than the 5400 RPM ones if I use the GTX 1070. However, I only bother with copying plot files over if I need to fill up SMR drives that take forever to plot to directly.