Starting with Mining

[babelis]

Hello everybody, few days ago I discovered burst coin and I'm definitelly inderested in mining, I have some experience with mining eth, we are just building our first rig and configuring everything...

So I understand that I need lot of storage to be profitable with burst
I started little research about possibilities, my budget is about 100€ and best would be to get at least 5-7TB for start

So there are my outcomes of research

• buy cheap used HDD from ebay (20-30€ for 2 TB) or some external hdd (40€+ for
  tb)
• if only hdd - buy enclousure for it - something like - icy dock MB973SP-2B (for 3 hdd)
  or
• just buy sata 3.5/2.5 to usb adapters for about 3$ for each (problem here- majority of these adapter are compatibile only with - Windows 98/ 2000/ Me/ XP, Mac, I have win 10 actually i can't find any adapter compatibile with win 10 - will I have to downgrade to win 7?) + usb multiplier
  and then I'm not sure how to power those hdds, the connector is sata to sata or sata to molex? I can get some cheap 500w psu for 10-20€ from ebay with 4 sata
• will I need some other adapters? Is it necessary to cool the drivers? Are they working whole time during mining process (I heard that cpu is working only few minutes and then there is some scanning process)

at least, now I'm reading something about plotting and it seems it can take some time
i have only B51-80 Laptop (Lenovo) parameters : cpu- intel pentium 4405U 2.1ghz 4core, gpu - intel hd graphics 510 will it be enough?

Thanks for your help and arguments

[iKnow0]

@babelis Hi and welcome to the Burst community. Given that you have a laptop, external drives with a USB 3 connection might be your best bet. First ensure your laptop has as USB 3 port, if it does then buy an external drive with a USB 3 connection. My main advice would be to start small while you are learning to plot, optimize and mine.

[babelis]

@iKnow0 thanks, I just figured out that fortunately I have 2x usb 3.0 ports so that's fine, but the main problem is that all adapters which I can see on ebay supports only win7,xp... But I have win 10, the driver connected would not be probabbly recognized on win 10, which adapters and os are you using?

[iKnow0]

@babelis if you buy USB3 external drive it will come with the connectors. ( a usb3 cable) from the drive to your laptop and a power adapter to power the drive. Or if you just buy a SATA III drive you will also need an adapter (http://www.elara.ie/productdetail.aspx?productcode=JCESTH-USB3S2SAT3CB) or similar ( be careful if you choose this option as the the drive will draw power from the USB port, ensure your laptop can provide the necessary power to the drive).

[babelis]

@iKnow0 - these adapters are supported in Windows 8, Mac OSX (10.8 or above), and Linux, and I have win 10 please read, I don't want to reinstall windows is there some other solutions?

• the best for sata III will be some muti adapter for 2-4 sata powered only with one connector directly to plug, I don't know if something like this exist but it should :D

[iKnow0]

@babelis The USB 3 solution will work regardless of your OS. The issue you will find in using an adapter of some sort is that the USB3 transfer bandwidth will be shared among the devices. Also the adapters may not show windows 10 compatibility, but check on the manufactures site to see if a windows 10 driver is available, most will. For Burst mining laptops will work to a degree, but if you want better flexibility and faster plot reading times a desktop motherboard is the way to go.

[babelis]

@iKnow0 ok thanks for info, few minutes ago I bought Seagate 2TB external hard drive for 30€ free postage fair price I think, so I don't have to worry about adapters and power now, just plotting and finding the right miner and pool, I will go through the posts on forum to find the best pool etc...

[iKnow0]

@babelis Thats a very good price 15 Euro per TB. This file has all the pool info https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KHu9BWwy_QXIYAx2m_Tzs9BqPoTYUDhEDbHihZEXGsE/edit#gid=81124645

[babelis]

@iKnow0 yea the price was great and the hdd arrived today, I took a look at plotting, but I don't understand why there are more plotting softwares are they faster than the wallet plotter? I will do it probably like this - create 4x 500Gb plots with wallet plotter and then use the Plot optimizer, waht do you think?

[LithStud]

@babelis damn 30euro for 2 TB thats good deal. I am waiting until i get info about arriving 70euro 4TB drives its been delayed for 3 weeks already :(

[luxe]

2TB for 35€ available here:
https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Storage/Hard+Drives/3.5+Inch+SATA+Drives/1.5TB+-+8TB/2TB+Toshiba+DT01ACA200+3.5"+SATA+III+Hard+Drive+-+PULL+HDD?productId=65666

[LithStud]

@luxe for me it shows up as £37.20 inc. VAT o_O

[babelis]

@luxe + deliver 7£ + usb adapter 3£ , + sata adapter 2£ - so it's basically 50£ for 2TB for me :/

[luxe]

@LithStud k i just took the price from here http://geizhals.eu/?cat=hde7s&xf=1080_SATA+1.5Gb%2Fs~1080_SATA+3Gb%2Fs~1080_SATA+6Gb%2Fs~3772_3.5

[luxe]

@babelis I just ordered this controller to replace 3 smaller sata controllers and free up some PCIe slots :-)
http://www.ebay.de/itm/HighPoint-DC-7280-SAS-RAID-Controller-32-Port-PCI-e-2-0-SATA-/322019657683?hash=item4af9de07d3:g:~AoAAOSwpLNYAkFt
Every slot there can handle 4 drives via special cable.

[haitch]

@luxe LSI 8i Raid Controllers - 8 drives per PCIe slot - Raid or JBOD

[luxe]

@haitch I only use JBOD (The controller i mentioned above is no raid, the seller just does not know that it seams ...), i want to replace 2 of this: http://geizhals.eu/highpoint-rocketraid-2680-a380035.html and another USB3/SATA combo card.

Hopefully the new controller will work like expected .. or i have to spend more to get a modern one :-)

[haitch]

@luxe hehe I've got a couple of RocketRaids sitting around - actually, there's one in this PC driving a 4 bay eSATA chassis.

[luxe]

@haitch Yes they are totally fine (little slow on boot) ... but i need to free PCIe slots :-)

[babelis]

nice discussion here guys but can you please help me if I can use the burst wallet plotter to create 3* 500gb and 1x 300gb plots on my harddrive and then use the plot optimizer for it? Is this the best option?