Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!
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@luxe said in Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!:
Enterprise drives do have one advantage: longer warranties...
The big three Hard Drive makers have been cutting back on Warrantees for several years. Eg.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2500542/data-center/hard-drive-manufacturers-slash-warranty-periods.htmlSometimes, this is done quietly, with little notice. And it has become weirdly difficult to find out some of the warrantee terms, for example on Amazon etc.
There may be other advantages to the "better" drives too, when it comes to life down the Burstmine. For example, the Seagate Barracuda Pro 10Tb (five-year warrantee) - sports a 256Gb Cache, lower power use, & faster seek times. Meaning, that it may be a more efficient worker.
Thou as Backblaze say, it may not matter when the numbers come in.
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@BeholdMiNuggets Once again I'll say, the only Burst drives I've had die have been Seagates, and I've lost around 30TB due to drive failure so far.
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@BeholdMiNuggets Barracuda Pro 10Tb prices still falling https://geizhals.eu/?phist=1479512, while other drives remain stable within this time period ... looks like a good drive, but i personally try to not pay more than 25€ per TB ...
But if 'enterprise' prices, i would prefer https://geizhals.eu/seagate-enterprise-capacity-3-5-hdd-10tb-st10000nm0016-a1418879.html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=pl&hloc=uk&hloc=eu with MTBF: 2,5 Mio. hours instead of MTBF: 1 Mio. hours for Barracuda Pro.@haitch would be interesting witch seagate model failed, also drive temp. has huge impact on lifetime ... i had 3 drives fail (not just bad smart values, but not working anymore) until now ... all over 7 years old and one of them was a seagate 1,5TB ...
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only had 1 drive fail myself it was a WD 750gig that origonaly came in a 500$ bestbuy off the shelf PC i bought back around 2009 or 2010
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@luxe said in Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!:
But if 'enterprise' prices, i would prefer the [Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD ST10000NM0016 /256MB 10TB] with MTBF: 2,5 Mio. hours instead of MTBF: 1 Mio. hours for the Seagate Barracuda Pro (ST10000DM0004).
Was wondering about the difference between those two. The Seagate Enterprise HHD is about 9% more locally. I suspect that the retail version has some consumer-friendly garnish, like encryption etc.
Sure it's annoying, but even if the Plotting & file Transfer process takes a week, it's not that onerous compared to the mining life of the target drive (eg. 3+ years).
What I don't know - The additional Burst-Mining capacity of a Fast drive with a large Cache, over a slower /cheaper HHD - And if that's a significant factor?
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@luxe This one was a a 5TB model - ST5000DM000. Had been running fine in an eSATA chassis for about a year, but failed within minutes of moving it to PennyWise.
The other Seagates I had fail were all 3TB models, not sure of model number - of a batch of 8 that I purchased 5 have failed.
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@haitch said in Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!:
of a batch of 8 (Seagate drives) that I purchased, 5 have failed.
Well, there are only Three major manufacturers of Hard Drives left. So if Seagate is out, then I guess that leaves Toshiba & Western/D. Thou I don't see much mention of Tosh' for Bursting hereabouts. Not sure why.
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@BeholdMiNuggets You missed HGST, Fujitsu, Maxtor and others. WD and Toshiba are my preferred drives though.
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@haitch said in Should I mine Burstcoin? Is it worth that much? Check out my thought!:
You missed HGST, Fujitsu, Maxtor and others.
Afik - Maxtor has been owned by Seagate since 2006, Fujitsu has been owned by Toshiba since 2009, & HGST has been owned by WD since 2012. WD is probably the largest, thou I don't know the current market share of each of the big three.
https://www.neowin.net/news/western-digital-becomes-worlds-largest-hard-drive-maker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers
As per Wikipedia etc.(©cc-ac).
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I think today it is worth to start mining, the price is 10k = $113.79 (0.06440000 BTC). I want to buy 2x Seagate 8TB (18TB in total) to start mining.
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@kiknaio current block reward is 1840+Fees ... block reward decreases 5% each month, it was 10000 back in 2014.
