Pros and cons of using Windows 10 to administer a mining farm

[Propagandalf]

Does anyone have experience with using Windows 10 as OS for administering a Burst mining farm?

Pros:

• easy to use

Cons:

• automatic updates that you cannot control, which force you to restart the machine at inappropriate times unless you babysit your machine

[bandarfjb]

@Propagandalf said in Pros and cons of using Windows 10 to administer a mining farm:

Does anyone have experience with using Windows 10 as OS for administering a Burst mining farm?

Pros:

• easy to use

Cons:

• automatic updates that you cannot control, which force you to restart the machine at inappropriate times unless you babysit your machine

I'm using Windows 10 on my dedicated PC (only for mining), I turn off the automatic updates. No problem so far. Don't have enough quantity of HDD to test what happen if I'm using HDD more than available letters like in other thread.

[daWallet]

@Propagandalf

Win 10 Pros:
Blago's miner
Easier to configure openCL for Luxe's jMiner (depends on the GPU)

Linux Pros:
Scales better
Stability

[jervis]

you can stop the windows auto update. I did it in my computer. :) It's in google search. just search for it. it's been months and i have not updated my windows yet.

[jervis]

@bandarfjb said in Pros and cons of using Windows 10 to administer a mining farm:

what happen if I'm using HDD more than available letters like in other thread.

you can combine HDDs to save the letters :)

[Slaw]

I went with linux because I can run it off a usb drive freeing up more space for more plots!

[kokojie]

yeah MSFT really fucked up with the forced auto restarts as default (this also exists in windows 8), I mean what did the developer think? I'll just go ahead and restart the user's computer, without their confirmation, and have them lose everything they are running and not saved yet.

[Propagandalf]

@Slaw @jervis @kokojie @daWallet @bandarfjb
Thank you for your answers, it helps a lot!

[gpedro]

@jervis said in Pros and cons of using Windows 10 to administer a mining farm:

@bandarfjb said in Pros and cons of using Windows 10 to administer a mining farm:

what happen if I'm using HDD more than available letters like in other thread.

you can combine HDDs to save the letters :)

What do you mean? how can i plug two drives to the same drive letter, that could be an extreme use for me right now with the google drives if i can set it up...

[Propagandalf]

@gpedro You could check this thread if you want: https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/1789/mining-on-more-than-all-available-drive-letters-on-a-windows-machine/4

[gpedro]

@Propagandalf Yeah i saw that after hahaha... thanks for the explanation in there and i'm following the post and i will try it for sure later xD

[haitch]

@gpedro You can span drives into a RAID 0 array - In disk Manager right click the drive name - not the partition - the actual drive full left hand side - select Convert to Dynamic Disk - convert it, then select Extend on the Partition - it'll let you span a volume over up to 32 drives. But if you lose one drive - ALL the data is gone.

[gpedro]

@haitch will the disks i am getting together be formatted or each drive will show as a folder on the new virtual drive?

32 disks together looks pretty cool specially because that means i will be able to use 736 clouds in each PC (at 15Gb each equals to +11Tb haha) but the last sentence of your reply make me worried, it means that even if the drives are in clouds it will erase the data from there? If so i have someway of let the diskmanager only read and that way no file will be lost because it cannot delete the file? The clouds i'm talking use the NetDrive API for google drive but i'm in the process of change to a faster cloud that uses WebDAV to map the drive...

The worst part of use clouds is the upload ofthe plots, that's the source of my worriness xD And of course it's not possible to mine with 736 clouds (for now) with my internet connection but it's something pretty cool hahaha

[haitch]

@gpedro The spanned drive will show up as a single drive of the total capacity - it won't look/act any differently to a "regular" drive.

[gpedro]

@haitch Oh ok but it will just put the files together or will format some of the drives when i put them together?

and what do you mean by losing one of the drives? could it be when the PC starts the drives are not connected and i will lost the whole data on each drive? Because netdrive only starts after the initialization of the PC...

will it lost speed during the mining?

Sorry for all this questions but you wake something inside my head with this hahhaha

[haitch]

@gpedro - the ones being added get wiped.

As for how it will work with Netdrive, good question - I don't even know if the Disk Management will even see them.

[gpedro]

@haitch Yeah i just tested and not shows any network drive, i tried to mapped it as local drive label on netdrive and still don't show and i readed someplace in the disk management tool that it only supports disks with more than 2 Tb but could not have to do with this matter idk but one thing is certain, only works with local drives...

[haitch]

@gpedro It can work with any size drive, but I guess they have to be local

[gpedro]

@haitch i had go back in there to look where i saw the 2Tb limit and it was in something called VHD or XVHD or something so probably not the same thing, i don't know nothing about this but maybe to you means something hahaha

Do you know someway that could make possible to use two or more clouds in the same drive letter? maybe only using a VM right?