New(but old external HD) formating/plotting info
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@Bitdv Thing to do is get plotting and see how it goes, as with everything you learn quickly. Starting from scratch I would now uses xplotter, but here I still use wplotgenerator and optimizer as I am used to them.
Rich
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@Bitdv NTFS, 64KB Block size and one large file instead of lots of smaller ones.
xplotter to do a drive at a time, gpuplotgenerator to do drives in parallel.
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@haitch said in New(but old external HD) formating/plotting info:
@Bitdv NTFS, 64KB Block size and one large file instead of lots of smaller ones.
xplotter to do a drive at a time, gpuplotgenerator to do drives in parallel.
How about the aspect of files generating errors, the ability to just delete an offending 100GB file compared to re-plotting a 5TB file?
Just me thinking along Bitdv's idea
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I've got a laptop with i7 6700HQ cpu and 32 GB of ram and plotting 400 GB file at a time with Xploter is fine to me :)
@Bitdv if you use Xploter do not forget to run it as administrator as it goes faster.
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@delords it'll be much slower to mine 50 100GB files rather than one optimized 5TB file. Yes it's painful if you have a plotting error, but in the long term the pain is worth it for mining performance. Remember, you plot once, but mine forever.
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Thanks, Noted
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@haitch said in New(but old external HD) formating/plotting info:
@delords it'll be much slower to mine 50 100GB files rather than one optimized 5TB file. Yes it's painful if you have a plotting error, but in the long term the pain is worth it for mining performance. Remember, you plot once, but mine forever.
Which is why I have settled on the compromise of a 1TB file size. Very little hit on reading and not too much of a pain if the plotting goes wrong. That said I know what I am doing now and 5TB would probably be fine. At least with wplotgenerator as it is very good at restarting if the PC reboots etc. Not sure if xplotter does this?
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@RichBC Yep, xplotter can be stopped and resumed
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How can one be sure of the next starting nonce without overlapping when trying to resume xplotter after a fail or system restart?
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@delords wplotgenerator checks and sorts this automatically. I assume xplotter does the same?
Rich
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@delords You restart xplotter specifying the starting nonce and number of nonces. It has a counter in an unlisted strea, file that shows where it was up to, and it knows from that where to resume from - it continues plotting the existing file rather than creating a new one
