Mining on Amazon Cloud Drive
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I have successfully started mining on Amazon Cloud Drive.
For those that don't know. Amazon cloud drive is a service offered by Amazon that provides "UNLIMITED" storage for $60 a year.
I can attest that it is indeed unlimited as I have 17TB on the cloud and not a word from amazon about terms of service.
There is a program called Netdrive that lets you mount your Amazon Cloud Drive as a physical drive on your computer.
http://www.netdrive.net/Keep in mind I have very fast net.
I mounted my Amazon cloud drive as Drive K: and started loading it up with Plots via the Amazon Cloud Drive Upload tool. It is faster than using Netdrive for the most part.
I'm up to 375gb mining from the cloud as of this screenshot.
The one problem I'm running into is that the Amazon upload tool tends to fail uploads over 10gb and retry them 2-3x before finally uploading it successfully. This means I have a ton of 10gb plots on the cloud that I'm mining instead of multiple 100+gb plots.
I may try uploading a larger (>100gb) plot using netdrive in the future, this may be the way I need to go.Does anyone have any tips?
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Thanks for sharing! I have a similar thread open for mining through OneDrive for Business here: https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/430/microsoft-onedrive-mapped-as-network-drive-for-burst-mining/24.
Have you optimized your plots?
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I read through your thread at one point.
I saw you were getting errors opening plots, I get that once in about 20+ blocks. Doesn't seem to affect much.And no, I have not optimized my plots. What program are you using? I tried 1 and it seemed to just lock up on me. lol
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Hmm OK since you get the read error every once in a while it could mean that there is an intermittent slight delay in reading files through the cloud perhaps, and maybe OneDrive is affected more from it.
I haven't tried optimizing yet, but I was planning to use the optimizer with a GUI for simplicity: https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/26/plot-optimizer-v1-6-with-gui-1-0-3-j6jq-win/2. Alternatively, you can use the GPU plotter in "direct" mode, to plot and optimize simultaneously. I think optimizing plots is important for cloud mining.
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I'm currently uploading a 100gb plot file using Netdrive. Wish me luck. :D
I did the math and its going to take somewhere between 8-11 hours. This is going to be fun. I now have to make sure my PC doesn't crash for any reason while its uploading or I fail a 100gb upload. rofl
I wish Amazon had a tool so you could unrar files on the drive. I have deleted whole folders just to upload them unrared.
It would be so convenient to rar up a 5TB plot file and upload it in 1gb chunks to the cloud and then unrar it back into the 5TB plot.
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@PonyBoy Good luck! OneDrive has a 10GB upload limit, and it even fails to upload that sometimes... It can be really annoying. It is 9 hours ago since you posted, so maybe it has completed by now?
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I wish. Net crashed about 5 or 6 hours in and interupted Netdrive. I couldn't get it to continue so started it over. I went to bed, woke up and my computer had rebooted :(
The perils of uploading large files. lol
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@PonyBoy LOL, that sounds all too familiar!
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I got a problem with my cloud accounts control, but month ago I tried Cloud Mounter and I like it
maybe it will be useful for you http://mac.eltima.com/mount-cloud-drive.html
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i did try mining from last month and i did download the plots from https://sourceforge.net/projects/burstwindowswallet/ and the CYN and it did not work there is a 32bit windows and a 64 bit windowns but sourceforge has only 32 bit
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amazon doesnt offer unlimited storage anymore, their prices are very exensive now
