@haitch Makes sense, do you have a recommendation for a 1TB miner. I will be moving to a total of 8TB soon but I want to try out mining 1TB before I plot the rest.
RandAlthor
@RandAlthor
Posts made by RandAlthor
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RE: Checking Progress in a Poolposted in Mining & Plotting
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Checking Progress in a Poolposted in Mining & Plotting
Hello,
I have been mining in http://pool.burst-team.us for a little while now and I was wondering if there is a way to check your status in a pool. Is there a graph or breakdown to see what DL you submitted for a block or is there any way to see how you are doing in the pool.I know there is the "Current Shares" section but it seems to only have heavy hitters on it.
Note, I only have 1TB plotted so I am not too sure if I am just too small to show up in an list?
Thanks!
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RE: GPU plot generator v4.1.1 (Win/Linux)posted in Plotter
@haitch Ah thank!
@vmantilla did you experience major low downs when plotting with Direct? When I try to plot just 1TB, it will slow down to and sometime hang for an hour+. Maybe this is because the drive is an SMR?
Also, does the difference between SMR and non-SMR only really show when plotting or is it a big difference when mining too? It would be ok if I just buy one non-SMR and then create an optimized plot to it then copy it over to a cheaper SMR drive, rigt?
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RE: GPU plot generator v4.1.1 (Win/Linux)posted in Plotter
@haitch is there a thread for how to optimize plots post creation similar to how this one talks about the GPU Plot Generator? I thought I saw one earlier but I can't find it now. Also, are Western Digital the only non-SMR drives or are there others? I don't think I am ready to do a bulk purchase at the moment since I am still very new and just trying grasp how this stuff works.
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RE: GPU plot generator v4.1.1 (Win/Linux)posted in Plotter
@haitch Thanks for the reply. I have been running some more tests and I am having much better performance using the buffer mode (17000/min). From my understanding, it will not create optimized plots and I will later have to optimize the plots. Since I ultimately want my plots to be optimized, should I first create them using the buffer mode and then optimize them or is it better to just plot them using Direct?
Also, when using direct I get long (like an hour+) periods where the percent will not change and seems frozen. Is that expected?
Lastly, do you have a recommendation on non-SMR external drives so I can be sure I purchase something that is good but also cost effective? Or is it just best to get the most $ per TB and then grit me teeth through the painful plot creation?
Thanks!
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RE: GPU plot generator v4.1.1 (Win/Linux)posted in Plotter
Hello, I am very new to Burst and cryptos in general but I really liked the idea of mining using a HDD. I am running into some issues while using the GPUPlotGenerator.
First some back story. I looked up how to set up plots via YouTube and I started using the GPUPlotGenerator. I was running tests on small plots so see how everything worked and then yesterday I decided to attempt doing my first large plot (1500GB) using direct. I had the plotter run and I noticed it was not updating the % value. I did however notice that the plot on the drive was getting larger so I figured the update was just lagging behind. I woke up this morning to see that the plot was now the correct size but the percent was now updating at an incredibly slow amount. That is when I found this forum and read through everyone's very awesome replies. Now I know that I was using an older version of the GPUPlotGenerator and it will no longer take hours to create the initial harddrive space for the plot. However, I am still getting very slow plot times (1000 nonces/min). I am also monitoring my GPU and it will hit 100% load for a very short time (30 seconds) and then not use the GPU for a very long time. This leads me to believe that it is not my GPU being the bottle neck even though I am using a AMD Radeon R9 200 Series 2GB. The external that I am writing to is a Seagate Expansion which (from reading other posts) is very slow for plotting but my 1000 nonces/min seems extraordinary slow compared to what I have read. I have tried running tests for 1TB on my internal HDD using the newest version of the GPUPlotGenerator and I am receiving very similar results. My internal harddrives are 3 1TB Seagates configured in RAID 5.
My Device.txt is set up like this: 1 0 1024 128 8192.
If anyone has any insight on how to best speed up plot times I would greatly appreciate it. That or I will have to plot a 8TB in 2 weeks >_>
Thanks!