Plotting 500TB rig

[djreefer]

I know a bit about GPU mining, but I'm still fairly new to HDD mining. I'm currently building several GPU mining rigs and thought I might as well start the HDD farm while I'm at it. I'm thinking around 500TB.

My question is the following: What would be the most cost effective way to handle 500+TB?
I have a few ideas, looking for input

1: Distribute the hard drives among the mining rigs, use either 1 of the GPU's in each rig or preferably CPU but they aren't as fast... I want fast... This may also be difficult to have to change settings on all these rigs when I need to, vs all on 1 rig.

2: Put all the drives on one mining rig, use as few GPU's as possible to effectively mine the drives, leaving the other GPU's and all other rigs mining 100% other coins.

3: Build a dedicated rig(s) for the drives if necessary

I fully plan on expanding, hopefully 1PB and beyond. GPU's I'm using will preferably be GTX 1070, 6 per rig. Any special RAM or other requirements for something this size? Thanks in advance.

[iKnow0]

@djreefer My advice, build a dedicated rig, as trying to do both GPU and Burst mining will run into power draw and lag issues during the mining cycle.

1 PC with 4 x 16 Port SATA controllers ( 64 x 10TB Drives = 640TB Disk ~ 576TB plots )

Also 1 x AMD GPU as they work better with the GPU mining software.

Good luck with your build.

[djreefer]

@iKnow0
Thanks for the reply. 1 AMD GPU will be all that's needed for that much storage?

[arihan]

if you're thinking internal drives look at 45drives.com they have some nice cases.

[ItalianMiner72]

@iKnow0 i'm really interested
which 16 Port SATA are you talking about???
i'm under windows..
but i think this sis and expensive environment!!!
but ready to check it!

[manfromafar]

I personally would get those port expandera I would rather get some lsi 3008 cards. Their more reliable and combine them with a 36 pay chassis

[iKnow0]

@djreefer mining is much less intensive than plotting, 1 decent GPU should do it. The GPU is only used for the calculations, moving the data fast enough will be the challenge. So a good CPU and controllers are a must.

[iKnow0]

@ItalianMiner72 there are many to choose from
https://www.google.nl/search?q=16+port+sata+controller&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqv-KzjKrUAhXHDMAKHbzgBSsQ_AUICigB&biw=2064&bih=1045

Note: A SAS controller can also be used for SATA drives with the right cables.

[djreefer]

Anyone know what the yearly workload would be per TB of storage?

Edit:
Think I found it... approx 31TB workload per TB storage
https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/2484/new-to-mining-seagate-8tb-archive-hdd-and-plot-optimization-question/9

[Zillard]

@iKnow0 said in Plotting 500TB rig:
4 x 16 Port SATA controllers ( 64 x 10TB Drives = 640TB Disk ~ 576TB plots )

Hi iKnow0
Do you perhaps have a brand and model number for those SATA controllers? I can only find 4 port ones, and would love to know what to search for.

Thanks in advance.

Lol, maybe i should have read more of the posts before asking the above. Saw your later post. Thanks anyway.

[iKnow0]

@Zillard http://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=722 is one of the cheaper ones

[Zillard]

@iKnow0 Cool, thanks bud. Now to find it locally.

[ItalianMiner72]

@iKnow0 said in Plotting 500TB rig:
but it works on windows?