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@Thedude said in What do you risk by having slow drives ?:

@iKnow0 thanks for the explanation mate, that was a very clear explanation.

What is the lowest deadline a round can have ? 0 Seconds

If I understand you correctly, the Plots should always be able to be ran within the lowest deadline of a round, but if you have the storage available you could add it regardless as it would be better to have some scanned than none regardless if its on slow storage ? Mostly Yes, however if the cost of you power requirement for running the storage exceed its earnings then it would be loss making. An extreme example would be 1000 x 20GB drives.

I got some more questions now as my build has started.

Wallets:
Is it best to set up different wallets per machine / or is it possible to use the same wallet across all machines ?
If I can use the same wallet, do I copy out some wallet files on the first computer and then paste it to the second, third ++ computer ?
is there any pro's / con's on using one or more wallets ?
I have read that you can encounter issues with same drive names if you use the same wallet on several machines, is this a big issue ? or can it be worked around ? I will in the end of the build have more drives than the alphabet got characters :P

Raid:
In terms of raid setup, I have heard some videos saying that Raid is not good in burst mining I can see that for raid 1,10,5,6,50,60, but I don't see how Raid0 will not increase performance as that will keep all the storage and increase the read speed while having one big plot instead of several smaller.
of course the back side of this is the plotting time and if one drive goes down you need to rebuild the whole plot for all drives as Raid 0 don't have redundancy.

Drives:
I started with my NVMe and RAMdisk yesterday to investigate the speed over storage size thing. I only had 530GB in total between the RAMdisk and NVMe drive. Their speed was both at about 250MB and search speed was about 0.2-0-5 seconds. wich just to confirm the stated above, Quick drives as SSD, NVMe and Ramdrives is not cost efficient for this "business".
But, I just set these up quickly for testing and to see how things worked for my own learning to be able to build the rest as good as possible.

Mining:
While mining my drives quickly found some green lines, but afterwards waited several minutes before searching again, is this normal ? Where can I find literature on the fundamentals of the mining and how it works, what the different lines mean and how the algorithm works ?

Plotting:
is there any best practice on how to plot drives ?
I started with plotting one drive, then plotted the next starting on the last nounce of the previous plot.
I would like to calculate the plots so that I can plot on several computers at once with either GPU or CPU plotters.
I have seen some say start with 1000000000 on the first drive then 20000000000 on the next, is this a good way to do it ? is there any back side of not having a continuous plotting sequence ?

Pools:
Any recomandations of pools while I build plots, I am now only at 1.3TB as I plotted desktop remaining space to see the basics. I estimate my pool size in the end will be at least 100TB possibly going towards 150TB depending on what I have space for and what works best of the setups I build :) I got equipment for possibly 200TB+, but I am not sure if the enterprise Equallogic SAN's will be cost efficient to run.