How much space do you leave on your harddrives?

[Angilena01]

@Blago ![alt text]))

[Evo]

@Casse, I think the answer is pretty clear by now, but I also try to fill my drives as full as possible.

I'm plotting a few 8TB Seagate USB 3 expansion drives now. These each show 8,001,223,458,816 free bytes before plotting and I've got 1376256 bytes or a bit over 5 nonces (1 nonce = 262144 bytes) free when done. This amounts to a drive being 99.99998% utilized. You paid for the space, you might as well get something out of it.

[Angilena01]

@Blago помогите что не так

[haitch]

@Angilena01 That's a little different from the error we normally see - you do have "mode" : "pool" set in your miner.conf ?

[Angilena01]

@haitch не чего не поняла

[haitch]

@Angilena01 Извините за перевод - это Google.

Для шахтера есть файл miner.conf, в котором вы указываете, что шахтер - это горное соло или пул. Для моего пула он должен включать:

"mode" : "pool",

[falconCoin]

good question i always wondered if all the way was a bad thing... i find my plotter shuts down before 100% even tho i set it back a little to like 98% full

but then the plots seem to have it all filled up, im doing a 3tb right now going to see what it does

[haitch]

@falconCoin The plotter will round your number of nonces UP to be a multiple of the stagger. If you have the nonce count too high then you'll be trying to plot > 100% of the drive capacity.

If using xplotter, just leave the number of nonces blank and it will calculate the correct number to fill the drive.

[manfromafar]

@falconCoin said in How much space do you leave on your harddrives?:

good question i always wondered if all the way was a bad thing... i find my plotter shuts down before 100% even tho i set it back a little to like 98% full

but then the plots seem to have it all filled up, im doing a 3tb right now going to see what it does

The only thing that can be annoying about completely filling your drive is windows complaining constantly that your drive is full.

[Angilena01]

@haitch я не чего не понимаю я 2 дня как начала майнить и не чего не получаеться

[haitch]

@Angilena01 said in How much space do you leave on your harddrives?:

я не чего не понимаю я 2 дня как начала майнить и не чего не получаеться

@Blago ? Can you help ?

[Angilena01]

@haitch

[cornerstone]

Thanks for all that. I, too, always wondered. I've always left about 50 gig free. Wasn't sure if true or just superstition, or bad rumors. I never asked... guess I'll stop wasting drive space from now on.
Thank you all... for asking AND answering. A neglected curiosity solved! Lol