What Does Deadline Mean?

[stupendelious]

Mine says about a month.

[luxe]

Deadline = The time in seconds until you win the round and will generate the current mined block.

Basically, it is the result of your mining, that is what you commit to pool.
The lower the deadline, the more shares you get on pool.
While mining, every time you find a lower one, the miner will commit it to pool.

[stupendelious]

Thanks! Yeah im mining with 100GB right now but was planning to buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-SATA-3-5-Inch-Desktop-ST4000DM000/dp/B00B99JU4S do you think that is a good idea?

[luxe]

Well, you have to do your own math, but even if you stop mining after a month or a year, you will still have the harddrive, and harddrive prices are quite stable ... e.g. i bought 6TB WD two years ago and price is higher now. You can always use that drive for other things in future like, backup your data pictures, vids etc. so why not :-)
Its not like bitcoin mining hardware, that can only be used for mining.

But ROI can take a while ... a 4TB drive will make ~6$ a month (at current difficulty and prices) so it is your decision. Remember, your electricity costs, a drive does not use much power, but the computer has to be running 24/7.

Btw. same drive is in here https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB4000100/dp/B00TKFEE8K/ref=sr_1_11?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1465740844&sr=1-11&keywords=3%2C5+external

Check:
https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/32/burst-mining-reward-calculators-online/2

[stupendelious]

Thanks so much for all your advice. I will probably get one. Do you think the value of burst might go up soon? It seems like the community for all of this i so good!

[luxe]

I expected it to be much higher right now, so i have no idea ... lot of things could happen ... as far as i know dcct and fuse are about to release a new version this summer, could positively effect the price a lot.
Also depends on community, lot of new bursters the last days and weeks ... thats very positive. But you never have a guarantee.

For all cryptos i suggest ... only invest what you can afford to lose.

[haitch]

@stupendelious I'm not a fan of the Seagates, the only drives I've had fail on me have been Seagate. Much prefer Western Digital, Toshiba or Hitachi.

H.

[stupendelious]

@haitch Thanks for info! I am goin to get this one instead actually: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Western-Digital-Blue-WD40EZRZ-4TB-SATA-3-5-Hard-Drive-/222147338176?hash=item33b9035fc0:g:ZzQAAOSwqBJXWV5h is this good?

[haitch]

@stupendelious Yep, that would be a good drive.

H.

[bytheseaster]

what can i do to get a lower deadline,,beside bigger disc,,upgrade CPU and memory??

[stupendelious]

@bytheseaster The only thing to do is to get more space
memory and cpu speed dont get you better deadlines

[bytheseaster]

nice answer,,,less money 2 spend,,wil spend it on more drives!!!Thanks

[jervis]

Why I always get no deadline?

[jervis]

So, basically you can't find a deadline thus you can't mine if you have lower than 750 gb space then?

[FrilledShark]

Moved Jervis's post
No. You are able to find all the deadlines you want, but 99.99% are useless. You can't win a round with a deadlines of 1 year, you need to find a deadlines to beat all other mines. Some pools only allows 24 hours deadlines because of this exact reason and deadlines this low are hard to find every time, unless you have a very large amount of plots. The 750 GB was (200 GB now) an estimated amount of space need to be plotted to reach the required deadlines every time by most pools. (Not the ones with 24 hour deadline requirement)

Edit: I will rewrite it. Changing 750 GB to 200 GB.

I don't know how to explain it, so if this doesn't answer it, plz try to ask in another way...

[FXALTareeq]

@jervis you could be mining on a pool that is not suitable for your HHD space. In case you aren't aware the burst.ninja pool is recommended for those who have 25TB HHD plotted drives.

If you're mining on burst.ninja with less than that it might behove you to move to the pool.burst-team.us. It more suitable for low end TB drives. The burst-ninja don't accept high deadlines. Where this requirement is lower for those on burst-team pool.

How much TB are you mining with?

[Blago]

if you click http://pool.burst-team.us:8124/burst/pool?requestType=getMiningInfo
you will see "targetDeadline":3888000
all deadlines bigger targetDeadline will skipped by miner

formula for "how much need Tb for sending minimum one deadline for each block" (average) capacity =2^42/BaseTarget/targetDeadline
capacity = 2^42/1761743/3888000 =0.64 Tb

http://burst.ninja:8124/burst/pool?requestType=getMiningInfo "targetDeadline":86400

[jervis]

@FrilledShark

Im trying to mine with 360 GB space right now. Im using the Ninja pool. Still, I always get "no deadline". Maybe I am doing something wrong?

[jervis]

@FXALTareeq I'm just trying to mine with 366 GB space.. I didn't know that. What pool should i use? This is my first time mining though.

[haitch]

@jervis use pool.burst-team.us, you won't make many deadlines on ninja with 336GB.