can i mine burstcoin using 1tb usb flash drive??
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@samreader1 Well faster drives would translate to faster read speeds. Faster read speeds are handy when someone comes across a very short deadline, like 20 seconds or less. That way you improve your chance to submit any deadline before that short deadline forges a block.
Another way to shorten your read speed is run the plot optimizer which significantly shortened my read speeds ( some by 10+ seconds). Keep in mind that when you plot a SSD there is no need to optimize, but I'd only do that if you have spare SSD space already. The extra cost of an SSD is not worth the investment for mining.
I believe the general consensus is aim for 7200 rpm HDD, either Western Digital or a Western Digital sold under the 'White Label' moniker. I've had good luck with white label drives from goharddrive.com.
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This explanation is to the point! Thank you @Hotdogler !
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@samreader1 if you use a GPU miner, you can get 50tb of hard disk drives and still read it in about a minute.
External hard disk drives are pretty much what i would suggest because SSD's cost a buttload.
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thank you @ddos.
Now you are have added another variable to the mix, CPU vs GPU. Now the next few questions are from Mr. Ignorant here:
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When I mine using the client interface, I usually hit the 'Start Mining (default)' button. How do I go about mining using the GPU (assuming I have one) miner?
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you can get 50tb of hard disk drives and still read it in about a minute
When you say the above, do you have your favorite set of hard drives that you use and recommend?
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@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.