hi guyz!!!
just two simple question!!!
1) how is the minimum TB amount to try SOLO Mining with burst???
2) how many GB of RAM to mine with windows7 64bit with the TB answered at point 1?
thank!
if you do less than 20TB it can be days between the blocks when unlucky - this means that it might take a week before you figure out something is not working as it should be. You might want to start out using a pool, just to get stuff working, then go solo when all is working well.
Not sure how many TB i mine, but probably between 40 and 50 and it do happen (rarely) that i have 24 hrs without a block. this means that if something go wrong and i get no blocks, i will not even know something is wrong until several days have passed without blocks. Usually problems have been time being off on a computer - burst mining works best if your time is quite sharp, say, +/- 5 seconds or so.
20TB on 5 4TB disks is possible with 16GB (i did that once, w7 64bit)
You will have to jump through some hoops though (related to the way W7 handles file cache, and how windows7 is pretty bad at using time servers), but i think all neccessary information can be found here and especially in the burstforum website. I am running a program called NetworkTime that keeps my clock sharp, and i am running some file-cache freeing program every 30 seconds or minute or whatever, that keeps the memory from being filled up. All miners are running in their own batch file that loops, so if a miner crash for some reason it is restarted automatically. The problems pile up the most when you are plotting, after plotting, windows seem to be better able to cope with the load. I can leave this box running for many days without having to intervene.
The other PC has a lot of drives (i ran out of drive letters) and it seems to just barely survive the load, running windows 10. it's a 4-core box with i think 16GB ram.
The third box is a dual-core 3.4ghz thing, with only 8gb ram or so. about 16TB mining and it is pretty show at anything else, so kinda maxed out - but it does not seem to crash or anything, just really slow at responding when new blocks are out.
If you run your miners and the wallet in a batch-file loop, it is pretty hard to throw a mining box off track, even with windows 7.
