Plotting and is this normal?
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Hi, I started plotting my 4TB on the 8th @ 1PM, drive is fulling up and gets to 84GB free space and stops on 9th @ 11PM. I decided to leave it over night because the cmd updated for the first time and said 2weeks @ 570 nonces/min.
So far the % is going up slowly and the (nonces/remining nounces) gains a 1000 or two every few minutes.
I have attached a pic of the cmd window & drive.
I'm have a Rx480 8GB with 24GB RAM, please let me know if you need any other info like what's in the device.txt etc.
Thank you.
Edit: I was just thinking am I being stupid? Is this not the optimizing ?
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The Seagate expansion drive is an SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drive, and SMR drives have a horrible performance overhead plotting optimized drives, due to the pseudo random write behavior. The plotting will take a LONG time, but once plotted, they mine just fine.
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@haitch Would it be faster to plot in buffer mode then optimize when it's finish wile I plot the next drive?
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@StaticRip It would be faster to plot in buffer mode, but you'd then need to optimize to a second drive - and I don't know how the optimize process performs on SMR drives.
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@haitch Thanks for the reply, I was thinking of buying a 5TB PMR drive like the Toshiba x300 and plotting to that then moving it over to the SMR drives.
