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  help please I am getting an error with xplotter
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  Thanks for that, I will let you know if the format works

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  Mining while plotting?
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  @rds Cool. Good to know but makes my books a mess as I was calculating mining power from time of completed plot.

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  Mining with windows xp ?
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  Ok i'll try and i say it if it better or not

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  ERROR 1003 Help pls
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  You need to replot the drive. You need to make sure you put your numeric account ID when plotting. It cannot be blank or 0. Sorry for the bad news.

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  Error while mining: "result":"missing Passphrase","requestProcessingTime":0
  • Propagandalf

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  see at #of blocks in miner's screenshot - seems wallet still downloading
  now we have block #354396

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  3TB Mining
  • HiDevin

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  I have been getting about ~85 BURST a day on average with 4tb. Just to give you an idea.

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  Question mining
  • Samu327

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  Thanks , I found a deal for 2 owc mercury 10TB ea, 360$ for both of them. Do you think that is a good deal ? :)

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  problems with 5TB hard drive
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  @Blago there isn't a security tab when i go to properties

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  How to mine on large Storage? (100TB+)
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  @Lausch said in How to mine on large Storage? (100TB+):

  I would be happy to join Mining on Burstcoin!

  Were you able to set up a test rig as suggested by the burster cognoscenti a couple of months ago ~ how's it going?

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  Some general mining questions
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  @haitch

  Aaaaah yes. I've set quite a big stagger size. sheepish grin

  So to get closer to what I was originally trying to plot I would want to use:

  Floor((<drive size in Bytes - 2GB>/262144) / <stagger>) * <stagger>

  I've effectively been putting the - 2gb on the outside of pemdas instead of on the inside.

  Thanks!

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  Whta does this mean?
  • Crytomania13

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  depending on the prog you use CPU vs GPU in your case you are using CPU. it will locate the plots on your drives and scan as many as it can at one time if there are more it will then scan the others ..... as it finds deadlines it will post the found deadline message as it finishes a drive it will post how long it took to scan that drive. all of the found deadlines in the screen shot could of come from any of the drives that had not finished scanning.
  also to note that you are not "finding blocks" you have found deadlines that have been submited to the pool you are on ... all the deadlines submitted by everyone on that pool will be grouped in order of best to worst time.. then the pool will brodcast it's best submited deadline to all of the other pool's / solo miners and of all of them the best deadline win's the block.. if your pool was the winner then the reward is split normaly 60/40 current / historic various pools varry in % amounts.. the person who submited the deadline to the pool gets the largest cut of the 60% with each person in line after progessive geting smaller amount.... the 40% gets divided up the same way but the list of people it uses is based on the last 50 blocks each person submited deadlines for " historic " amount. the burst you earn will then be differed to your account. the pools set thresholds to payout because it cost 1 burst fee for each time you send. to cut down on fees most have a threshold of 300 burst or at a set time once per day witch ever is reached first.

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  Blago's miner not confirming ANY DL's
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  @rds yes

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  5TB External Hard Drive Expectations
  • cryptobawbag

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  @cryptobawbag ,

  About 145 coins per day mining or about 100,000 coins if you sell it.

  Yes, it will integrate with other sizes.

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  CPU vs GPU Plotting - Optimisation
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  @BigBear The nonces/min number will be very low to begin with, it's the nonces computed averaged over the entire time the plotter has been running - but the number will continue to increase for the rest of the plotting, right up until the end when you get your true plotting rate.

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  Nonce start number and more
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  @Darrylglenn I have chosen to standardise on 1TB plot files, however there is no hard and fast rule.

  Back when I got started plotting and optimising were separate processes and I was using 4TB & then 5TB Drives so this made it easy to plot on one drive and optimise to another.

  These Days using xplotter you can do the process in one go. Start with some smaller plots to ensure you have everything sorted then I would not go below 1TB but feel free to just fill the Drive with a single plot.

  There is almost no difference in the scan speed for 5 x 1TB v 1 x 5TB plot.

  Rich

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  Large Scale Burst Mining Operation
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  @luxe @BeholdMiNuggets I saw a 'cheap' four bay NAS storage solution the other day for $500. I don't understand why anyone would pay more for a glorified hard drive enclosure when you could just build a whole PC for the same price.

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  Mining and Plotting: Need help with a group of questions
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  @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.

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  Regarding plotting file start nonces
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  @BeholdMiNuggets This may answer your questions: https://github.com/de-luxe/burstcoin-jminer/blob/master/src/main/java/pocminer/generate/MiningPlot.java

  64byte per scoop
  4096 sccops per nonce -> 262144 bytes
  results in 4 nonces per GB is correct.

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  Need help in plotting with 100 tb
  mining burst plot windows plotting • • anik

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  @luxe Thx for the response - I was referencing some other posts, such as this one. (Thou perhaps it probably only applies to SMR drives). And it's not "Firmware", just Settings.

  @Propagandalf said in Shingled magnetic recording (SMR):

  My scenario
  ...

  I checked my 8TB drives, and they actually had write cache disabled by default! According to the article, activating or disabling write cache has a huge impact on performance, as seen in these graphs:

  SMR write cache on
  

  SMR write cache off
  

  I did not change my drive settings, so mine have had their write cache off all the time. I truly believe that performing the steps in the article will help with drive performance in general, when you are filling up your drives with non-Burst related items. Maybe they will also improve write speed when plotting and perhaps even mining, someone will have to try it out.

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  Copying over plot files
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  @Gibsalot Thanks.
  Thou I suppose if each HHD only requires populating with Burst-Plot files once, then the initial plot is just a minor part of the long-term equation.

  And others have suggested that there is no disadvantage to using 8x 1Tb plot-files for an 8Tb HHD (for example).