Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos

[luxe]

Now that i expose myself here anyway ... i will show you this:

Using a single 280x with jminer (also 2 monitors attached to it) ... so you get a idea what is possible.

System load:

[Lexicon]

@luxe that looks sexy af. look at them read speeds! jesus

[gpedro]

@luxe said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:

I know this is sick ...

This looks like the initial seed power of BURST LOL
Just kidding but man you have a serious addiction LOOL I guess it's better than drugs or gambling but fuck XD

BTW how is possible to put 90 drives attached into one PC? :O
And it would cost much? I was thinking in trying to start a big mining farm (was doing the math for around 1PB farm) with some people but i think i would need at least 2 rigs to do it but if it's possible to connect 90 drives into one PC i guess it's possible to make it with just one PC...

[luxe]

@gpedro Ok, besides from drive power supply you should have no problem attaching even more drives via extern usb3 or intern sata, provided you have enuogh free PCIe slots, as you can add USB3 or/and Sata crontrollers to handle nearly as much drives as you want.

[gpedro]

@luxe Yeah but my bottleneck will be the OS accept as many drives i think... I guess this can maybe be solved with RAID or something but i never used this kind of things... Can you point me to some good intel in how to set up such a thing?

[luxe]

@gpedro You talk about windows? You can add much more drives than A-Z or what do you mean?
http://www.howtogeek.com/98195/how-to-mount-a-hard-drive-as-a-folder-on-your-windows-pc/

[gpedro]

@luxe Yes i only have experience with windows but if you have a better OS solution for such a rig i am willing to learn... xD

[luxe]

@gpedro No idea, windows works fine for me ...

[gpedro]

@luxe WOW that tutorial make it pretty easy haha Big thanks will look into it...
Another question: This will make the speed of writting/reading slower?

[haitch]

@gpedro You can mount drives as sub-directories of another drive. So USB Drive 1 can be c:\Drive1, USB Drive 2 is c:\Drive2 etc. No real limit to how many drives you can mount, as long as you can find a way to physically connect them.

[gpedro]

@haitch Yeah i just learn that from the Tutorial @luxe posted ahhaha

[luxe]

@gpedro No does not make it slower ... for me it looks like:

[gpedro]

@luxe said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:

@gpedro No does not make it slower ... for me it looks like:

ok Thanks for the intel on this xD

I don't want to sound repetitive but that list is so insane LOOL

[luxe]

@gpedro i just overflow the guide ... it's not accurate, you do not need to format or something, you just create a folder, enter the manager where you would assign another driveletter and choose the option to assign it to directory, after you remove the driveletter.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753321(v=ws.11).aspx#BKMK_WINUI

@gpedro said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:

I don't want to sound repetitive but that list is so insane LOOL

That's just the upper 1/4 of the list ...

[nox]

@luxe said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:

I know this is sick ...
LOL sweet..

[vadirthedark]

To All,

Thought the hardware side of the equation gets the job done, my interest at this time is 'What aspects of PoC did you
use to determine what hardware to throw at plotting/mining?" In other words what parts of the discussion in scientific papers
(Burstcoin white paper) or forum discussions made you choose the components you use?

What made you choose the CPU to have an efficient plotting/mining rig?

• CPU (Intel, AMD, Mac)
• Cores (2, 4, etc.)
• Speed (? MHz)
• ETC.

Same question for the HDD, Graphic Card(s), Motherboard, Software

• Graphic Card (Nvidia, Radeon, other)
• Memory (?GB)
• Read/Write speeds
• ETC.

All these decisions play an important part along with the Burst protocol to build a rig that uses the plotting/mining to its
best advantage-even the software you use is important. Any help you can give or maybe point me in th right Direction
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[gpedro]

@vadirthedark I can't be much help with this but one thing i noticed is that a Multythreading CPU's are better for both plotting and optimizing...

Regarding the rest of questions hope someone with more experience could help you... Although you forget to ask an important part... xD
I've been learning that for big BURST rigs one of the most important things are the MotherBoards so you could connect the most amount of drives either for USB 3.0 and for SATA, so you should ask about this too when planing to create a big RIG ;P

[jervis]

@gpedro or you can just buy a USB 3.0 hub with 10 or more connections to it. :)

[gpedro]

@jervis The problem of the Hub is that if you have 90 drives like @luxe has on his rig, at a point of time each connection will start to split the speed between the drives xD

And if you want to have so many drives you need the maximum speed for each connection, right? xD

[jervis]

@gpedro A standard PC have default of 4 USB 3.0 hubs x 10 slots = 40 slots + 6 SATA slots. So, I'll get two PC's running and that should be it :)

But an i7 and crossfire GPUs can only do so much for 46 drives. I dont know what is what until I've tested it out :)