Plotting and Pools

Mathiasthegr8

So I just found out that my friend has almost 30 TB worth of backup drives that he wants plotted. The only issue is the plotting speed because all of the drives will only write at 10 MB/s while plotting. This is weird because I can transfer files to those slow plotting drives super quickly when just dragging and dropping random files. This lead me to the idea of writing plots on my two other drives which have much faster download speeds while plotting and dragging the plots over to other drives. Why are there no consequences for not doing one big file for the whole drive? What even are the plots? Why do certain drives plot faster?

Second question, with these 30 TB (Soon expanding to 40) what pool would make me the most money? I want to have a semi-steady stream of burst coins every day.

sevencardz

@Mathiasthegr8 The consequence for making a big plot for a drive is: you end up with a big plot file on your drive. :)

What are the plots? They are files with data in them - nonces for a cryptographic blockchain algorithm.

Drives plot faster and slower for a number of reasons:

Architecture - most drives use PMR, but some archive drives use SMR which is very slow for random writes.
Connection - external drives may have disk write caching disabled by default, vastly limiting write speed.
Rotational Speed - 5400 RPM drives plot slower than 7200 RPM drives, for example.
Compute Power - if your CPU or GPU is slow, then your plotting will be as well.

manfromafar

@Mathiasthegr8 said in Plotting and Pools:

So I just found out that my friend has almost 30 TB worth of backup drives that he wants plotted. The only issue is the plotting speed because all of the drives will only write at 10 MB/s while plotting. This is weird because I can transfer files to those slow plotting drives super quickly when just dragging and dropping random files. This lead me to the idea of writing plots on my two other drives which have much faster download speeds while plotting and dragging the plots over to other drives. Why are there no consequences for not doing one big file for the whole drive? What even are the plots? Why do certain drives plot faster?

Second question, with these 30 TB (Soon expanding to 40) what pool would make me the most money? I want to have a semi-steady stream of burst coins every day.

If the drives are SMR drives mainly only seagate current uses them then it will be faster to plot on separate drives then just copy of the plots afterwards.

As far as getting started right away I would recommended 1TB plots to be generated and copied. That way you can start mining right away without having to plot say 8TB of data then copy it over. Second this is recommended is that if you lose power or the plot gets corrupted your only down 1TB instead of 8TB.

The only downside to having multiple separate files is it can slightly hurt your read performance when mining but its generally not that big of a difference to be worth fighting over.

As far as pools to join I would recommend: http://poolofd32th.club/
Also check my sig for our discord channel for questions on the pool or just general chat.