@haitch Thanks for the reply, I was thinking of buying a 5TB PMR drive like the Toshiba x300 and plotting to that then moving it over to the SMR drives.
Posts made by StaticRip
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RE: Plotting and is this normal?posted in Help & Support
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RE: Plotting and is this normal?posted in Help & Support
@haitch Would it be faster to plot in buffer mode then optimize when it's finish wile I plot the next drive?
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Plotting and is this normal?posted in Help & Support
Hi, I started plotting my 4TB on the 8th @ 1PM, drive is fulling up and gets to 84GB free space and stops on 9th @ 11PM. I decided to leave it over night because the cmd updated for the first time and said 2weeks @ 570 nonces/min.
So far the % is going up slowly and the (nonces/remining nounces) gains a 1000 or two every few minutes.
I have attached a pic of the cmd window & drive.
I'm have a Rx480 8GB with 24GB RAM, please let me know if you need any other info like what's in the device.txt etc.
Thank you.
Edit: I was just thinking am I being stupid? Is this not the optimizing ?
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RE: Hello everyoneposted in Welcome
Thanks for the replies, I have around 1200$ so 8x Seagate 5TB Externals would be what I'm getting + any secondhand drives I can get for cheap later. ( What makes a used drive good or bad are there brands I should stay away from?)
Atm I would connect as many as I can to my main PC until I can get a another one for plotting or to connect drives.
My current PC:
Mobo: ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 (4x USB 3 I think)
CPU: i7 3700
GPU: MSI RX480 8GB Reference
RAM: 24GB
PSU: 900w AntecIs there a thread I can check with some info on how fast certain hardware can plot as I do have an x370 board laying around and could get a Ryzen CPU if it could shave a bit of time of the plotting.
I won't be buying anything for a few days as I still want to read up on a few things because I see there is quite a lot I don't know e.g How many HDD I can connect before I hit a bottleneck & @ZapbuzZ could you please link one of those usb3 multi port cards for future reference & is there I thread I can read up on miners and disk read time.
I would really like to get started as soon as possible but, I would really like to know more about what I'm doing.
Thank you for reading.
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Hello everyoneposted in Welcome
Hi, I have been deciding if I should build a mining rig for Burst as all the GPU for mining in my country are sold out.
I wanted to ask if there is a certain type of HDD I should stay away from as I'm looking to order a few 5TB Seagate Expansion External drives from Amazon as it would turn out cheaper than buying local (29$/TB vs 35$+/TB).
I'm asking because I could also start buying up some secondhand drives for much cheaper when they are available but, I would like to know what I should look out for and avoid.
New here so thanks for reading. =)

