Hi,
I'm currently trying to plot my first larger disk. It's a brand new USB 3.0 Seagate Backup Plus Hub with 8TB.
I'm experiencing a very strange behavior on my Intel i7-3635QM powered notebook with 8GB RAM.
-) Formatted disk as NTFS with 64kB.
-) Started XPlotter as Admin with 4 Treads.
Tool begins to prepare nonces blocks as expected until RAM is full?!
After about 4000 nonces the tool begins to write on the disk with full speed. (arround 100MB/sec).
disk write stops as expecte becaus no more nonces to write are cached.
CPU is still "running hot" at 100% and is creating nonces until next ~4000 nonces are prepared.
Then again full speed disk write. And so on...
This works fine for some minutes but then suddenly the disk write rate drops to about 2 to 4 MB/s.
And of course the CPU rate drops down since the RAM is permanently filled with nonces.
When I stop xplotter it seems that disk is continuing doing something.
Is there anything I have to consider on?
Please HELP. It would be an endless story if i continue plotting with that speed.
I guess I have enough CPU power and enough USB3.0 bandwidth to plot the disk in some days.