Thanks @Haitch you sir are a legend :)
You answered my question very simple and straight forward. Thanks for taking the time to assist me in my journey of burstmining.
I will start going through the basics and setting up my NAS'es after work now and take the NX3200 and Equallogics a bit later this week as they are offsite at another location.
Is it normal to plot the drives as one plot of 4TB/3TB or do you normally plot in chunks of 500GB so that the plotting goes quicker and if you loose a drive you can replace the damaged plots with different sized drives ?
@thebaron hi mate, sounds like we are in a very similar situation, I bought out a bankrupt company and have been sitting on the equipment for 2 years now. Lets keep in touch on the setup to share experiences.
From my point of view I believe you can do a nice setup with the equipment you have available, your 15K drives should perform pretty well. the fibreconnectivity increases the bandwidth from normal ethernet and as Hiatch mentions above, storage size is more important than the connectivity so I believe you should be good with your equipment as well.
I will do some experiments with different quick storage solutions in addition to see how that affect the results over time.