Heavily investing on HDD or building a gpu mining rig?
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Guys, besides the fact that I ask this kind of a question on Burst forum, I think that here the people are way more gentle, and probably I would get a better answer...
Currently I'm mining with 24.5 TB, and I doubt if I should invest ~ 1500 Euros more on HDD or building a mining rig ( and ofc attach the HDD on it and not on my laptop), what would you say?Thank you.
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id say , get a case that has around 10 hddbays and a motherboard with 10 sata ports
as well as a mid range gpu , for faster plotting & mining
Then just for expand-ability get a usb3.0 card and a oricio hdd bay
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Here's my build, I got the motherboard for free, have a Nvidia GTX 660 for $60USD. Got the PSU for $30USD, and I got 14TB for about $20USD per TB.
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I personally think this is very dependent on the energy prices you have to pay. for me the prices are rather high, therefore not allowing me to get a reasonable enough profit out of GPU mining, which is why I switched to burst. if your prices are lower however, I'd say GPU is the way to go.
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~ 0.10$ / kw/h
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@SmartonoseN that's not too bad. If I were you I'd pick GPU mining. it is ofcourse always a risk, like when ethereum goes to PoS mining profitability might go down alot, but that's alot of speculation. overall I'd say GPU
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I use about 4,980 KWh a month @ $0.10 just running 10 computers, I'm not using the computers for mining, LoL.
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A place I used to work the power bill was about $400,000 a month. First Energy is not broke that for sure. I think they got a discount per kWh, about $0.03.
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@Tate-A Are you joking? What kind of PCs are that?
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@SmartonoseN I GPU accelerate heavy programs for some local businesses in my area. I have about 9600 cores, giving me about 20 teraflops of computing power. I think mostly what they do at the GPU power is auto cab or something like that. And some of them use it for video encoding.
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@Tate-A Holy crap, thanks for the info man. :) It is always cool to learn something new.
