Help with running drives on multiple machines
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I finally fixed my stagger size problem
at the moment i only have 4 usb ports and 8 drives
so im running 4 on drives each on 2 computers
but im getting errors on the pool end
what is the correct way of running multiple drives over a few machines
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@burstminergrow It depends on your setup... For a desktop you could add more USB 3.0 ports by adding a PCI-E USB 3.0 controller.
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Thank you for your reply
I have a large mining farm at the moment consisting of GPU's
which is being upgraded by end of this month
To that i wanted to add 1 PB of drives as part of my set up
using 4 tb drives this is 250 drives or 8tb 125 drives
having researched a few things
its going to be difficult running more then 20 drives on one machine
so will have to use multiple machines
burst is a very steep learning curve
and before i make any further investment
if i was say to run 5 machines how should it be set up
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@burstminergrow If it was me...
8TB x 125 (not SMR drives)
2 x 16 Port SATA controllers per PC ( 32 Drives per PC)
using 4 PCs x 32 = 128 Drivesor
2 x 24 Port SATA controllers per PC ( 48 Drives per PC)
using 3 PCs x 48 = 144 DrivesIts usually cheaper to buy the USB 3.0 drives then extract the drive from them for use with a SATA/SAS controller. ( Warning will void your warranty)
My advice would be to start small then grow as there is a learning curve to Burst. Also your newer GPU's will be best for plotting. The use the old GPU's to mine.
Good luck with your build.
