Big plots vs many small plots
-
Can you please explain 2.?
-
Will it be even better if I make 80 plots of 1TB each?
-
No 90 of 1TB wouldn't be better. for 2) If you create an optimized plot on each individual drive, the miner will simultaneously read the optimized plot from each drive simultaneously. If you instead use a single large volume, the miner has to jump around between drives in a sequential manner, and adding a lot of overhead seeking on the disks.
-
Personally I'd plot each of the 15 drives with a single optimized 6TB plot file.
They'd operate independently and still run at full speed with one single optimized read each and if one drive fails you won't have to rebuild all of them
-
-
Let's say I have a 10TB single HDD. Is it better to have 10 seperate plots á 1TB or a single plot á 10TB?
-
Which software does the optimizing and what settings are to select? I just saw one optimizer software so far that wasn't even compatible with all miners.
-
-
@Akito 1 10TB plot will be more efficient. If you use xplotter it creates an optimized plot straight away, as can GPU plotter in direct mode.
-
@haitch What is the downsite to using direct mode? I don't find information on that, anywhere, except on how to choose between two. If direct mode optimizes by default, why would I choose buffered mode?
Also how important is it to optimize the plot? When is it necessary and in which case is it not? How "big" are the advantages of optimizing and in what cases to those vary?
-
@Akito direct mode takes twice as long as buffered mode. In buffered mode the plotter just plots then sequentially writes the plot out to disk. In direct mode, it first builds the entire plot file, but empty, then fills it in optimized as it computes the plot.
-
@haitch So is it better to have one 10TB plot unoptimized or 10x 1TB plots optimized?
-
@Akito Best is an optimized 10TB single plot. 10 1TB Optimized vs 1 10TB unoptimized will be about the same, as it requires multiple drive seeks to process the files in either case, whereas an optimized 10 TB plot is basically one seek then a sequential read.
-
@haitch Okay, how much does it affect my mining experience? Do I get better results (more coins or something) when everything is optimized, as descried?
-
@Akito you mine the plot faster, and the faster you can mine it, the earlier you get your deadlines submitted: a 30 second deadline will get beaten by a 31 second deadline if it takes you 32 seconds to find it .....
