@HiDevin Thanks! I can assure you, the BURST community is awesome. I will be back, on a slightly smaller scale for now...but who knows what the future may hold. TO THE MOON ;)
Posts made by DrTrouble
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RE: 140TB+ Burst System For Sale - 5x 3TB, 10x 5TB, 10x 8TB drives - $4000!posted in Marketplace
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RE: 140TB+ Burst System For Sale - 5x 3TB, 10x 5TB, 10x 8TB drives - $4000!posted in Marketplace
@HiDevin Post mentions that I will hand over the wallet and that it continues to make $$ without touching so yep, it is plotted. I even went through a complete re-plot 3 months ago to optimize. That was a process. But now it reads all but one plot in 35sec or far less.
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RE: 140TB+ Burst System For Sale - 5x 3TB, 10x 5TB, 10x 8TB drives - $4000!posted in Marketplace
Hey guys.
@mathew @HiDevin That range is accurate.
@KyleH112 Sorry, looking to part with this as a nice big rig for a lucky BURST miner - no individual drive sales.
As far as the price, in between posts on both sites I thought about the blood, sweat, and tears that went in to building this rig and tacked on $200. Lol.
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RE: 140TB+ Burst System For Sale - 5x 3TB, 10x 5TB, 10x 8TB drives - $4000!posted in Marketplace
@rds It currently runs on Windows 10.
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RE: 140TB+ Burst System For Sale - 5x 3TB, 10x 5TB, 10x 8TB drives - $4000!posted in Marketplace
Shipping from the Midwest, USA.
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140TB+ Burst System For Sale - 5x 3TB, 10x 5TB, 10x 8TB drives - $4000!posted in Marketplace
I am selling my BURST pc that I have been using for the last 4-5 months or so to pay off some bills. It took me quite a while to get this all plotted and running smoothly but now, I don't touch it at all and it keeps making $$$. I have over $5,000 invested in this, not to mention countless hours figuring out the best configuration for running 26 drives on one PC. I did not skimp on components, computer is gaming machine quality (GPU, fast CPU, 500GB SSD, 8GB RAM).
If there are any warranty issues, I will assist any way I can. However, I have been running these 25 Seagate drives for months and have not had a single one fail!
If you are interested, I will hand over the BURST account to you as well (willing to sign agreement to delete password and never log in to it again) so you can start mining from day one or while you re-plot drives.
With this rig, I consistently rank in the top 5-10 on Burst.ninja.
Here is equipment with approximate costs -
10x Seagate Backup Plus 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STDT5000100) - $1500
5x Seagate Expansion 8TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive STEB8000100 Black - $1000
5 x Seagate Backup Plus 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive with Mobile Device Backup USB 3.0 - STDT8000100 (Black) - $1000
5x Seagate 3TB Internal 3.5" hard drives (currently sitting behind rig with cables running inside) - $500
4x 4-Port USB 3.0 PCIe cards - $100
AMD FX-8370 CPU with Wraith Cooler - $180
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 Motherboard - $140
Visiontek R9 270x GPU (use jminer to quickly scan plots) - $200
Vertical AC surge protectors - $60
2x 8-port USB 3.0 Hubs - $60
8GB RAM - $50
500GB Samsung SSD - $160
600w EVGA PSU (Picture shows 1000w but it will be 600w) - $50
Case - $50You will be responsible for covering the cost of shipping. Please PM if you are interested or if you have questions. If needed, we can do an escrow account.
Picture doesn't really do justice. Also, 5x 3TB drives are sitting behind case in a basic metal caddy.

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RE: my accountposted in Help & Support
Every time I have seen that it is related to a wrong password entered, period. Check for an extra space at the end, that has got me a few times. But no one can hack your password and cause it to say that you have created a "new account".
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Hardware for 20x USB 3.0 drives connected to one machineposted in Mining & Plotting
I have had various issues with having 20 USB 3.0 drives hooked up to one machine. 10x 8TB drives, 10x 5TB drives. Sometimes they are stable for weeks, sometime a few drives drop out regularly and I need to reset the drives or the PC, or sometimes several drives are painfully slow (instead of taking 10-15secs to read, they take 7-8minutes). I have tried multiple machines with various results.
I have 3x 7-port USB hubs. I have also used a couple PCI-E to 4-port USB cards on machines that didn't inherently have USB3 ports but were otherwise pretty juiced up machines. I have tried combinations of plugging some in to the PCIE card, some in to the onboard USB3.0 ports, balancing on the 7-port hubs, etc.
I am having a hard time determining truly what the bottlenecks are. I know that this is quite demanding on a PC, but I really believe it should be possible.
Is anyone else doing something similar? Any recommendations for hardware? How about any theory regarding PCIE USB cards, USB3 hubs, vs onboard ports, etc?
Thanks!
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RE: Burstnation & Network situation & Local Walletsposted in General Discussion
I am curious too, as to what is up with all this and why it is taking my burst transactions forever...
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RE: PlotsChecker (not for XPlotter!)posted in Plotter
@Blago thanks for your continued hard work on this. I would just like to say that I would LOVE to see some kind of standalone program that I could use to check whether my plots are actually legit. I do not fully understand the BURST technology, even though I have been using it since inception, but if there is a way to check whether multiple plots are actually providing the nonces they are portraying that would be AMAZING!
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RE: Plotting 8Tb WD external drive....wish me luckposted in Mining & Plotting
Bite the bullet, allow Xplotter to do its thing for several days. Trust me, you don't want to end up with 150TB that you are re-plotting like me to make sure that your plots are all good and optimized....
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RE: Another Plotting questionposted in Mining & Plotting
AND, if you are formatting the drive anyways, make sure to change the "Allocation Unit Size" to 64kb...apparently that is recommended.
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RE: Plotting Help.posted in Mining & Plotting
Just my 2cents, but if you have a somewhat decent processor consider using Xplotter to plot with CPU. It is not as fast, but it optimizes the plots and made me feel better about re-doing the tons of GPU plots that were reading slowly without optimization.
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What is official way to know if you have a good plot? jminer?posted in Mining & Plotting
I just started to re-plot all my plots with Xplotter. When I checked on a couple after several days, they seemed to be done but lacked a "plotting finished" type screen. When I attempted to launch Xplotter again, it told me "File is already finished. Delete the existing file to start over." The message could be true, but I have about ~8 machines all re-plotting right now and these 2 seemed to be done quicker than I expected in relation to the other machines.. When I add them to jminer and start to mine on them, they do in fact show the proper plot size (5TB). My question is, if jminer is showing the proper plot size, does this guarantee that the plot size is in fact correct? I know that plotchecker is not sufficient to check an xplotter plot.
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RE: Why not create another "BURST" type coin?posted in General Discussion
@haitch Most people who mine, myself included, do it for $$. I hate how that sounds but I am being honest here.
BURST has somewhat struggled to increase market share against all the other GPU and ASIC coins. Most people would rather invest in a brand new GPU because "hey, if this coin doesn't work I will switch to this other one or this other one to make my money back". But with investing in HDD, I knew that when I dropped thousands on drives that BURST was my only option. A lot of people would look at the comparison and say that there is no way they are going to buy a bunch of drives on the premise that one coin is going to make them money. They don't look at the assets, casinos, surf toolbar, or any of those other features..they want ROI.With more competitors, BURST still has multiple advantages..it has an awesome community, well-evolved tools, it was the first HDD coin, etc etc.
But more exposure to HDD mining in general might benefit all of us.
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RE: Why not create another "BURST" type coin?posted in General Discussion
@crowetic I am not sure how this would work, but I do hold both BURST and QORA and would be interested to see...
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Why not create another "BURST" type coin?posted in General Discussion
I have been mining BURST off and mostly on since the beginning, over 2 years ago. I have mined GPU coins for even longer. However, with GPU-mined coins it makes sense to switch to a different coin every couple months or so to stay profitable. But in the ~2.5 years of mining with HDD, burst is the only one that has been profitable (and sometimes, barely). I followed Storjcoin for awhile hoping to make a buck, knowing that what they were trying to do wasn't really feasible. Same with MAIDcoin.
BURST is the only coin that we mine with HDD for, let's be honest, no real good purpose (please don't take offense..I believe in burst and the community and the future, but it's not like anyone is actually using these giant plots on my giant HDDs).
Why not create another "copy" coin or two? Maybe the competition would raise awareness, drive price up? Split the mining difficulty level. I mean, 2.5 years of mining and no competitor at ALL in the basic HDD mining space? I can't believe it. Our tools and interfaces are WAY better for plotting/mining then they were back in 2014 already, so the next coin could borrow from this.
So what do you think? Issues or concerns with this? If I had the developer skills, I would be strongly encouraged to move forward with this myself.
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RE: Miners Wanted! (Updated!)posted in Mining & Plotting
No blocks mined yet...it has to happen soon!
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RE: Miners Wanted! (Updated!)posted in Mining & Plotting
@jervis Woops you are right. I was actually mining with OpenCL (GPU) on the 3rd PC. Blago's miner does in fact crash when connected to this pool. @haitch - thoughts?