Pumped to do this - got a few questions
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@sevencardz noted
how long do you think we have until mining is so difficult we're gonna need proper stations i.e 500 TB or more - in which case the average joe won't be able to do it.
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@Seed88_ when blocks run out but not so large maybe
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@ZapbuzZ any guesses time-wise?
Just found out my mobo doesn't have USB 3 - if I install a USB 3 PCI card - will that be less effective than having on-board USB3? IF so I may have to upgrade the mobo entirely.
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Block availablility is listed i forgot the link to burst-team.us about it. That time wise has been asked on the forum before i'm guessing several years but they get less often won. USB3 addon cards are usually better than built in ones they usually have the added feature of sata-power or molex-power connection to PSU that ensures stable power throughput which is especially useful for bus powered external disks. Also, PCIe USB3 add ons with 7 ports have more independent lanes in the chip circuit design.
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@Seed88_ If your mobo doesn't have USB3.0 then it's a total dinosaur. Go with a new Ryzen 7 1700 and build a system around that.
Get 2 - 4 8TB 7200RPM NAS drives for plotting (avoid Seagate NAS).
Get 2+ 8TB Seagate Expansion externals (note: these use SMR tech).
Get this mobo and have expansion for days: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157757
Use Xplotter to plot with the Ryzen 7.
Plot to the NAS drives, copy to the externals (faster this way due to SMR tech).
Use jminer with the 970 to mine.
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I appreciate the swift and detailed responses guys. Many thanks to you all.
Still pumped to do this thing!
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@sevencardz I've been studying quite a lot. Honestly, yesterday I couldn't fully understand what you meant but tonight I see the logic.
Great advice to buy fast drives for plotting. But, since I'm going to copy the plot data to the other drives, why did you recommend 2 to 4 NAS drives - wouldn't 1 be enough to plot and copy each time?
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@Seed88_ Depends on how fast you wanna go. With cpu plotter (XPlotter), you can plot to multiple hdd's at a time (assigning a few threads and some RAM to each instance). The copy between the drives can take some time by itself, so having multiple will allow you to parallelize the process.
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@sevencardz said in Pumped to do this - got a few questions:
@Seed88_ If your mobo doesn't have USB3.0 then it's a total dinosaur. Go with a new Ryzen 7 1700 and build a system around that.
Get 2 - 4 8TB 7200RPM NAS drives for plotting (avoid Seagate NAS).
Get 2+ 8TB Seagate Expansion externals (note: these use SMR tech).
Get this mobo and have expansion for days: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157757
Use Xplotter to plot with the Ryzen 7.
Plot to the NAS drives, copy to the externals (faster this way due to SMR tech).
Use jminer with the 970 to mine.With a Ryzen cpu, I'd use the 970 to mine some gpu coin, and mine burst with cpu miner like Blago's. Frees up the 970 to do other work since Burst mining is trivial compared to PoW.
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If you are on a budget.
My laptop dell E6510 did okay to mine selling under 50 used. with 2 8tb drives before I burned out the controller on the thermal black dual drive dock. Still use laptop from time to time and sometimes plot at 2400 nonces per minuteworking Desktop Build low budget all used from ebay.
ASUS H97-Plus Socket LGA1150 ATX Motherboard ($55)
i5--4570 cpu
16gb ddr385-212 mb/s speeds in blago
Soon adding one sata controller as I have too many drives now
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@Seed88_ I guess if enough parties were interested, I could just do the plotting for you guys as a service for a reasonable fee (and shipping). It's true, there's no need for everyone to buy a high-end CPU or GPU just to plot a bunch of drives for a few weeks. Once you're done plotting, you can mine on any decent machine with enough ports and a $100 GPU or even less if you only have a few dozen TB or so.
