I need someone's opinion on a new build
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Well let's take this hub as an example:
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerIQ-Charging-Macbook-Surface/dp/B00VDVCQ84/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498591290&sr=8-1&keywords=anker+10+ports+hubIt says that it can support up to 5/Gbps, and the r/w speed of the hard drive that I'm testing on is around 100~160mbps, theoretically speaking it should easily be able to support 10 hard drives.
or I'm simply missing something here :/
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@younoob007 The drives are doing 100-160 MegaBYTES ( 800 - 1280 Mega bit) not bits per second, theoretically speaking you can max out the USB channel with three drives and maybe get away with 4 on 6 GigaBITS/second
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What I do for my USB powered mining, is run the allegro pro USB controllers, the cards have 4 separate controllers (one per port) so you can effectively run 5 drives in a hub, from each port, and it's like running 5 drives off the board 3.0 controller.
It makes things very simple, straight forward, and fast. It will be my final build for my USB3 mining rigs.
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@crowetic said in I need someone's opinion on a new build:
allegro pro USB controller
good info, so a usb pci-e card basically gives you less bottleneck to run more externals? sorry im not very tech savy haha. I see some on newegg for like 20 bucks
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@crowetic said in I need someone's opinion on a new build:
What I do for my USB powered mining, is run the allegro pro USB controllers, the cards have 4 separate controllers (one per port) so you can effectively run 5 drives in a hub, from each port, and it's like running 5 drives off the board 3.0 controller.
It makes things very simple, straight forward, and fast. It will be my final build for my USB3 mining rigs.
responding so I can find this later. :)
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blah usb just get a case with 24/36 drive bays and shuck them drives. No need to mess with random cables and power supplies just one nice clean unit.
That you then store on a bed frame :}
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@manfromafar Is it possible for you to connect the arrays with USB? or how do you connect them to your computer exactly?
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@cyberspacemonkey said in I need someone's opinion on a new build:
@manfromafar Is it possible for you to connect the arrays with USB? or how do you connect them to your computer exactly?
Those ARE computers yo. :D
@manfromafar great man, yea, I did look into something like that, and even had a really good hookup on drives, but I just couldn't justify the matchup of the drive size I could get, with something that made sense, nothing beats 8TB density, and buying any smaller drives at this point I can't justify.
So I picked up the USB because they had best over counter prices, but now I'm picking up some from haitch in the group buy, and yea, I'm thinking right now that I'm going to up my order.
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@crowetic I'm not familiar with servers as you can tell, so you pretty much plug the array to a modem and access it from a browser? how do you mine though?
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@cyberspacemonkey A "server" is just another computer so installed windows/linux and run it the normal way yo uwould any other machine.
@crowetic yup the external 8TB seagates are the cheapest drives out there. All I do is order them Rip the internal drive out of the enclosure and mount them in the servers.
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@haitch said in I need someone's opinion on a new build:
@younoob007 10 drives on a single hub will be bottlenecked. Try to keep it down to 2-3 drives/port.
I have 24 USB 3.0 HDDs connected to one USB 3.0 port on a $350 laptop. I plot/replot, run 3 local wallets and use JMiner. 92TB scan in 79 seconds.
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@manfromafar Sorry if i'm asking stupid questions, but how do you access the array from the computer?
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@cyberspacemonkey The array is in the computer, it's like the harddisk in your PC, just a lot more of them
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@manfromafar @haitch Do they have a connection for like a monitor, etc? I looked some up and most of them have for networking only on the back.
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