Bulk Purchase ?
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@rds SATA drive work on a SAS backplane, SAS drives will not work on a SATA backplane.
The 24 I have, and 45 I'm ordering will all be going into a SAS2/SATA3 backplane
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@haitch , ok. thanks, BTW, I emailed Matt about 4 hours ago, no response yet.
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@rds You probably just missed his work window - he might get back to you over the weekend, otherwise Monday
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@haitch I'd be in for 2-3 drives, Thanks for organizing the group buy!
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@haitch , ok. thanks, BTW, I emailed Matt about 4 hours ago, no response yet.
No response yet??
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I haven't gotten a response too. I'll give til tomorrow then I'll try again.
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Probably took one look at his email this morning and headed for the bar!
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@socalguy I emailed yesterday and haven't heard back either. just and FYI :-)
where in socal are ya?
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@Dread I live in San Diego
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@socalguy hey there neighbor. I'm just north of ya.
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I got a response from Matt,
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So sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Yesterday was crazy busy as a few people were out of the office. Unfortunately, there was a huge influx of orders for these specific drives over the weekend.We will have to wait until our next batch arrives to start filling orders. Either late this week or early next. Again, so sorry for the delay and inconvenience.
I will reach out when units are available and make sure you still need. Thank you!!
"I have to wait but not long.
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@socalguy Ahh gee I thought I was special, but I got the same response. Hope the next shipment covers everyone! The drive enclosures arrived yesterday, lol.
I need a drink...
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Looks like you guys are swamping them ......
"Hello Hamish,
Yes sir, I'm sorry for the delay. I had a crazy Monday yesterday. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Ill will respond to everyone this morning. Over the weekend there was a huge influx of orders for these drives and we will have to wait until our next batch arrives to start filling orders.I have everyone from the collective in a separate folder so i will make sure to take care of everyone. Thank you!!
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:11 PM, wrote:
Matt, a number of community members have said they've emailed you, but haven't heard anything back? Some email issue going on ?
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@mr.x I have 192TB of these drives here waiting on the delivery of an array controller ......
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@haitch
I don't mind the wait, really appreciate you getting the ball rolling, and am looking forward to doing more business with this guy!
I also have 40 PCBs with AMD W4100 GPUs waiting for liquid cooling parts which are coming on a slow boat from China. Good day for a barbecue and bonfire Im thinking...
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@mr.x I have 192TB of these drives here waiting on the delivery of an array controller ......
wow, what CPU are you going to be using, or will you be using a GPU miner to read all the plots? I've been trying to nail down some details, folks seem to be under the impression 1 thread per plot reading, so say 16 threads could read 16 plots at once, since you're in the top tier of knowledge, what say ye? and I am guessing the GPU's will read far more plots concurrently?
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@Darkbane 4 * Intel Xeon E5-4650. 8 Core/16 Thread - for a total of 32 Core/64 thread - and 128GB of RAM .....
Based on the performance of my first monster (24 drives, 40 threads) I'll probably be CPU mining to start with. That may change with the planned expansion - 45 drives/360TB - I suspect that may become a hybrid CPU/GPU miner.
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@Darkbane 4 * Intel Xeon E5-4650. 8 Core/16 Thread - for a total of 32 Core/64 thread - and 128GB of RAM .....
Based on the performance of my first monster (24 drives, 40 threads) I'll probably be CPU mining to start with. That may change with the planned expansion - 45 drives/360TB - I suspect that may become a hybrid CPU/GPU miner.
ahhh old xeons a man after my own heart... E5-1650 here... but what about the reading of the plots, does it really take 1 thread per plot/drive while reading? there is so much misinformation on the internet its so hard to nail down facts other than trial and error sometimes, and I can't seem to tell for certainty what my own system is doing, as I am plotting and mining at the same time, but I can't really see any direct correlation in task manager by thread when plots are read with my meager setup heh... but the geek inside me is always curious..
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@Darkbane said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@Darkbane 4 * Intel Xeon E5-4650. 8 Core/16 Thread - for a total of 32 Core/64 thread - and 128GB of RAM .....
Based on the performance of my first monster (24 drives, 40 threads) I'll probably be CPU mining to start with. That may change with the planned expansion - 45 drives/360TB - I suspect that may become a hybrid CPU/GPU miner.
ahhh old xeons a man after my own heart... E5-1650 here... but what about the reading of the plots, does it really take 1 thread per plot/drive while reading? there is so much misinformation on the internet its so hard to nail down facts other than trial and error sometimes, and I can't seem to tell for certainty what my own system is doing, as I am plotting and mining at the same time, but I can't really see any direct correlation in task manager by thread when plots are read with my meager setup heh... but the geek inside me is always curious..
does it really take 1 thread per plot/drive while reading?
It doesn't require 1 thread per drive, but it's capable of utilizing one thread per drive. When I start Pennywise2 it'll have 32 cores/64 threads and 24 drives, every drive can be mined by a dedicated thread simultaneously. If I get to add the 45 drive expansion, I'll have 69 drives and 64 threads. Most of the drives will have a dedicated thread, but some drives will have to share one thread with another drive. Parallel processing rather than serial.
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@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@Darkbane said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@haitch said in Bulk Purchase ?:
@Darkbane 4 * Intel Xeon E5-4650. 8 Core/16 Thread - for a total of 32 Core/64 thread - and 128GB of RAM .....
Based on the performance of my first monster (24 drives, 40 threads) I'll probably be CPU mining to start with. That may change with the planned expansion - 45 drives/360TB - I suspect that may become a hybrid CPU/GPU miner.
ahhh old xeons a man after my own heart... E5-1650 here... but what about the reading of the plots, does it really take 1 thread per plot/drive while reading? there is so much misinformation on the internet its so hard to nail down facts other than trial and error sometimes, and I can't seem to tell for certainty what my own system is doing, as I am plotting and mining at the same time, but I can't really see any direct correlation in task manager by thread when plots are read with my meager setup heh... but the geek inside me is always curious..
does it really take 1 thread per plot/drive while reading?
It doesn't require 1 thread per drive, but it's capable of utilizing one thread per drive. When I start Pennywise2 it'll have 32 cores/64 threads and 24 drives, every drive can be mined by a dedicated thread simultaneously. If I get to add the 45 drive expansion, I'll have 69 drives and 64 threads. Most of the drives will have a dedicated thread, but some drives will have to share one thread with another drive. Parallel processing rather than serial.
okay so this isn't any different than other programs, it doesn't "need" a thread per drive, it'll just queue the commands and step in line like every other program does, similar to a disk queue that will line up requests and fulfill them, eventually... lol...
will be interesting to see if the new CPU's (threadripper, X series etc) will be a better value than the used out of warranty equipment, which might drive down that used equipment even more, I'm finally glad to see AMD putting pressure on Intel, consumers are going to win in that race, for new and old equipment!
