How to plot entire drive?
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I have a 1tb external hdd and I want to plot the whole space. How can I do this?
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Read and watch carefully:
https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/166/step-by-step-video-guides-how-to-use-and-mine-burstcoin
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@daWallet But, It doesn't tell you how to exactly plot the entire drive without the windows client.
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@kikiyai doesn't it?
Step by Step Video Guides how to mine Burst without the Windows Client by RiskyRandoms:
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@daWallet I was reading on the fourms and I saw someone make exact details on how to plot exactly the size of the hard drive, but I forgot where I saw it.
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The integrated miner in the AIO Wallet lets you plot the whole drive if you slide the slider all the way across to the right. Even if it doesn't plot every single byte, it can apparently be a good idea to leave a tiny bit of room in a harddisk, to prevent it from becoming sluggish.
*EDIT 15th of December 2016
Latest intel suggests that leaving space is wasting space, so plot the entire drive if possible.
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I read somewhere in the forum that it is worth leaving around 10% of the space free on the harddrive, because plotting 100% can cause slow performance. Hope this helps.
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for manually plotting:
- get free space of your disk in bytes.
- run http://www.mediafire.com/download/y8k3d1617qbc4lp/Burst+-+Nonces+Calculator+v3.0.exe (or http://noncescalc.esy.es/)
- type bytes

- for example, you got 7630903 nonces, you have 8Gb RAM (needed for Stagger) and you have 4 core CPU
- your nonces must be multiple by Stagger: 7630903 / 8196 = 931.052 (round down it) => 931 * 8196 = 7630476
- use wplotgenerator for plotting https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/66/janror-s-cpu-plot-generator-v1-15-win
wplotgenerator.exe YOUR_ID START_NONCE 7630476 8196 4
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@Blago Alright, this is what I needed. Thanks!
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I think leaving some space can also grantee long life for your HDD
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@Blago How did you get 8196
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@Havoc
Usage: wplotgenerator <account id> <start nonce> <number of nonces> <stagger size> <threads> [/async]
<account id> = your numeric acount id
<start nonce> = where you want to start plotting, if this is your first HDD then set it to 0, other wise set it to your last hdd's <start nonce> + <number of nonces>
<number of nonces> = how many nonces you want to plot - 200gb is about 800000 nonces
<stagger size> = set it to 2x the amount of MB RAM your system has (with async 1x the RAM your system has)
<threads> = How many CPU threads you want to utilise
options:
/async ... writing plots from a background-thread for best throughput (needs twice as much RAM)in my example I have 8Gb of RAM, and use 8196 with /async mode
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@Blago Thanks for your reply.
So in my case. 1TB 32GB ram
I would put 38146972 / 65536 = 582.0765
Then 582 * 65536 = 38141952So my command would end up being ID_0_38141952_65536_7 ?
Next one plot would be ID_38141953_38141952_65536_7 ?
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@Havoc yes, but for the second one you can start at 38,141,952 - plotting 38,141,952 nonces starting at nonce 0 means the last nonce will be 38,141,951
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@Havoc said in How to plot entire drive?:
Next one plot would be ID_38141953_38141952_65536_7
ID_38141952_38141952_65536_7
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@limpopo said in How to plot entire drive?:
I think leaving some space can also grantee long life for your HDD
As far as i know only if you use SSD-Drives...
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@piezo No need to leave space available. Both regular HDD and SSD have space reserved for remapping bad blocks. And since the mining process is only reading the disk, not modifying it, there is less likelihood of a block going bad than there is with a drive that is constantly being read & written.
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@haitch I saw an article where it says
"Do not use 100% of your HDD. If you do this, you HDD will be extremely slow. Please use only 90% of your HDD space and let 10% free. For example, if you have a 1TB HDD, let 100GB free."https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTwPqBbkjfL3abIPkqNRcHpQp-3r2de7sDdmANJpR3Y/edit
Do this still apply?
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@Wolf The article is incorrect on that point. My primary miner has only a few GB free on all it's drives, and it is not slow.
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Will you still be able to plot and mine if you have a nonces size that is not a multiple of stagger? If yes, will it be less effective?



