Plotting Very Slow - 5TB Seagate Drive
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@p0int_scale said in Plotting Very Slow - 5TB Seagate Drive:
@mrgoldy Use 3G with 6 cores.
Your RAM has a big impact on writing scoops. Your cores have a big impact on nonces/min.Actually, ram has no impact on writing scoops. More ram just means a bigger chunk written before the next set is calculated. You can plot just as fast with 512MB of ram as 8GB dedicated to Xplotter,.
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This video:
or this:
May be of help to improve performance of that drive. As you can see from the first video the performance is improved dramatically.
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@ScreamIndevnull yes, this was actually discussed here once
https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/3985/singling-out-one-hdd-for-changing-write-cache-settings/5
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@p0int_scale The write speed is improved dramatically which makes me wonder if Seagate botched something in the FW. The video shows a read/write test before and after. Though I do not know what the impact would be writing nonces, but I am sure it improves mining speed... probably helps writing nonces also.
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Thank you for a truly awesome video, I purchased a seagate before and its plotting time was very slow, as the computer continually had to wait for the hard drive to write the scoops.
I have just purchased another 5TB seagate , slow plotting again.
Watched you video, and made the setting adjustments, woooohoooo, scoop writing is no longer a problem!!!!A big thank you.
Once I I have finished plotting, should I change the settings back?
Thanks
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Great Stuff !
I have mixed vendors of my HDs Seagate, WD etc. in my miner and one of mine was a Seagate, always wondering why it is that slow , Problem solved
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@Dirty-Dog and @Marc it is strange how the fix works for some and not others, but my video proves it makes an improvement ...at least for some people.
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Finally, is a seagate hdd just slow to plot or also to mine ?
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@LeoFrk2, it's been addressed several times: the drives are slow to plot, but for mining they work well. I have ten of them working together and my mining time is reasonable...between 15 seconds to 25 seconds per block.
