What do you risk by having slow drives ?
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What is the risk of having slow drives or an unoptimized plotfile ?
Will we risk anything if the computer uses long time to scan through the plots as long as it scans the plot within the block timelimit ?
i.e when you have SAN's or NAS'es the speed is limited to the network bandwidth. which will cause a 16 bay SAN to max have 10Gbit (1250MB/s) over all drives or in worst case if you use an un agregated ethernet link only having 1Gb (125MB/s) over all drives.
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@Thedude I had a 16 drive 50TB miner that was connected by 1Gb iSCSI, and it was fine for mining.
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@Thedude This should explain it.
Example: Two miners with 100TB each,
Miner A can read all plots in 20seconds,
Miner B can read all plots in 180seconds.In each round with a deadline less than 3 minutes Miner A has the advantage of having all the plots read where as Miner B will not.
Result Miner A relative plot size of 100Tb
Result Miner B relative plot size of <100TbIn each round with a deadline less than 2 minutes Miner A has the advantage of having all the plots read where as Miner B will not.
Result Miner A relative plot size of 100Tb
Result Miner B relative plot size of <66TbIn each round with a deadline less than 1 minute Miner A has the advantage of having all the plots read where as Miner B will not.
Result Miner A relative plot size of 100Tb
Result Miner B relative plot size of <33Tb
