A Few Beginner Questions!!!
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Hello.
I am going to invest into burst mining after mining with some free HDD space for a few weeks.
I am going to buy this hard drive - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HAPGEIE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Is this good? It is the best value for money I could find.
Is 8TB enough to start mining properly?
Can I run the Blago miner on my machine that is running 6x470's mining ethereum? Will that impact my mining at all?
I have power outages a lot so I was wondering is it OK if I plot 1TB at a time using the CPU plotter from the wallet? Is there any disadvantages to doing so?
Thanks in advance.
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@BigBear Bumping.
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@BigBear yes 8tb is enough, yes blago miner will run and won't impact your machine, cpu plotter can recover where it left off so there no risk with power outages.
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@BigBear yeah everythign @HiDevin said i believe to be good info... i have had plots cut by power and windows updates.. takes a little configuring but they can be restarted where they leave off. 1tb plots are not an issue either.. it is reccomended to make them as big as you feel comfortable with. i use multiple 8tb drives.. one has 12 plot files the rest have either 2 or 1 .. i dont notice any real difference in read speeds. .. make sure to format your new drives into NTFS and use the biggest allocation of 64k ( you will see it in the format screen)
good luck and we were all new once ..keep the questions coming!
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@BigBear, that drive will mine just fine, once it is plotted. The reason the price is good on this unit is that it uses an SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drive, which is very slow to write to under certain conditions. Unfortunately, these are exactly the conditions that plotting creates. So you can either plot to the drive and expect it to take quite some time or, if you have the space on another non-SMR drive, you can plot several small plot files to the faster drive and then copy them to the 8TB unit.
I'm actually doing this right now with the same drive you bought. I have two 2TB drives: I gpu plot direct to one while copying a previous plot on the other to the Seagate 8TB. I'm ending up with 6 plot files per 8TB drive. This is just as fast in mining as one large plot file. I need a bit more RAM...if I had it I would plot to both 2TB drives at once.
I have also had power failures and they are maddening when a plot is at 90+ percent...which is exactly why you should use many smaller files. Good luck!
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Thanks to all who replied.
So should I pick something else other than this Seagate? What is a good option?
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@BigBear said in A Few Beginner Questions!!!:
Thanks to all who replied.
So should I pick something else other than this Seagate? What is a good option?
Seagates are fine, they just plot a little slower. Not a big deal. Also I plot 1TB plots. Always done it that way.
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@BigBear, I wasn't trying to steer you away from these. Just passing along what I've learned. As several of us have said, they work just fine once you are mining. And you have a few more bucks in your pocket towards your next drive!
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@BigBear said in A Few Beginner Questions!!!:
Thanks to all who replied.
Took me about 9days to plot that drive last week using xplotter, but changing the plot settings during the day and night
Here are some sites for other HDD deals
http://dealnews.com/c56/Computers/Storage/Hard-Drives/
https://slickdeals.net/deals/drives/For a reference, here is what I bought in the last 2 weeks
