@kaydencc I've just stumbled on your topic. I've ordered 500TB of those drive to start Burst mining operation. Could I message you in private for details on your rig and basic questions?
Moniva
@Moniva
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RE: New to mining: Seagate 8TB archive HDD and plot optimization questionposted in Mining & Plotting
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RE: Bought 500TB now what? Newcomer to Burstcoin.posted in Mining & Plotting
@haitch Thx for the advice. Also, I've tried the xplotter with 11 threads it did the 500gb HDD for 2 hours ... with 14500nonces per min.
@manfromafar all of the space would be used for burst mining.
@ryanw I doubt it my boss or colleagues would appreciate if I show up at work with a box full of drives and occupy every PC in the room for plotting :D
Another quicky can I mine while plotting?
Thx for all of the advice fellas I will keep you updated as I progress.
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RE: Bought 500TB now what? Newcomer to Burstcoin.posted in Mining & Plotting
@haitch, @manfromafar Do you guys think that if I make a Raid 0 array I could plot the whole 500TB at once? Could it be somewhat faster? If not I will order additional 12 regular drives so I can replot them.
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RE: Bought 500TB now what? Newcomer to Burstcoin.posted in Mining & Plotting
@manfromafar I thought or at least I've read somewhere the larger and the fewer files you have the better?
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RE: Bought 500TB now what? Newcomer to Burstcoin.posted in Mining & Plotting
@haitch Thank you very much for the info. I have also an ethereum rig that I'm planning to use for GPU plotting 6 drives at a time.
@manfromafar Yes I got the Seagate archive drives 8TB they were on sale so I got bulk ordering. The problem is that I do not have another 8TB drive to plot onto. Actually, I know that they have half the head that is why they are slow but I thought that this gets you affected only if you delete and copy new files on them??? Or maybe I have not understood the technology right.
@rds I got 65x Seagate Archive 8TB drives so I've written it correctly.
@iKnow0 They are old WD Enterprise Edition 500GB HDDs. And you are correct sir they are sata2 maybe that could explain the slow time ...
Thx fellas I will try the XPlotter. I will be posting often :D as @iKnow0 said there is a learning curve. I just hope that it isn't much steil of a curve :)
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Bought 500TB now what? Newcomer to Burstcoin.posted in Mining & Plotting
Hello,
It all started before one week. I watched some videos on youtube and all seems kinda easy.
You create a wallet, get some burst from a faucet, create some plots... it looked a lot easier, I've read that for 8 TB drives it will take 2 days so I've decided to start with a small HDD that I had laying around. It took me 6 hours to fill that sucker.
My hardware is Intel i7 4930k 32GB of ram and GPU RX 480 8GB. I've seen that users with those specs fill an 8 GB for a day. I think my problem is with the plotter. It was hard for me to set it up. I kinda understood what the numbers mean but I think there has to be a faster way!
I've started with the gpuplotter but it filled the 465TB with the file and after that started to fill the that nonces bar. My drive was full so I was expecting it to stop but no It started to raise the %bar little by little and I was supposed to wait 10 additional hours for it to finish. This was kind of a nuisance to me that is why I've decided to come and ask for some advice how to better plot and which tools to use.
I'm expecting a delivery tomorrow for the drives. That is why I'm kinda in a hurry to learn and understand all that so any help would be amazing.
Regards,
Ivan IvanovP.S With the cpuplotter I get 7,5 hours to plot 500GB.