Plot Sizing Issue
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Hello,
I'm a little new to the community. Just wanted to say that I've never seen such a helpful community like this behind a coin!
I was starting to plot my 3TB hard drive yesterday when I realized something. I know that the plotter automatically creates a file the size of the final specified plot.
But for some reason when I look at that file, it's only around 250GB. I had entered 2900GB. Is this normal? I just don't want to wait and then find out I only plotted 250GB.
Data:
OS: Windows 7
Drive: Seagate 3TB Drive
Plotter: XPlotter (the one that comes with the wallet)
Current Nonces As Of This Post: 600,000 (about 146GB)Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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@trexidomino Xplotter immediately creates a file of the size the plot is going to be - if the file is 250GB, thats how big your plot will be. You can either add a second plot, or delete that one and restart
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if you are having issues figuring out how many to put down
4096*<drive size in GB>=number of nounces
so in this case
4096*2794=11444224 nounces it should leave you with a few hundred mb free... Xplotter might fill it completely though...
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@Lunas The plotters always try to create <nonce count>/<stagger> plots. If <nonce count> is not a multiple of <stagger> the miner will round UP, and try to generate more nonces than you have space for. This then screws up your plot.
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@Lunas Except a 4TB drive is no longer 4096 GB - it's 4,000,000,000,000 bytes - well short of a true 4TB
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@haitch and the reported gb after formatting is 3.63 or 3630GB or 14868480 nounces i guess i should have been clearer in you take the actual available size after formatting.
