Topic: [ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient HDD Mining | New 1.2.3 Fork block 92000 - page 736. (Read 2171056 times)

In real life I am managing a petabyte-sized renderfarm, and storage alone at this scale is not easy.

Personally, I think 1200-1500 pb is on the low side. Consumer prices are ~$33/tb. So $100m could buy a total of 3000pb of space at that price.

As far as energy consumption, I think it's fair to ignore the cost of running the computer that the storage is attached to. Mining that takes place on end-user's desktop computers aren't using any extra energy to keep the computer on (other than the energy of the hard drive itself), and large mining operations will likely be able to be pretty efficient with their operations, with one computer powering many hard drives.

Estimates vary, but it seems that the average power consumption for a single hard drive is about 7-13 watts. They can consume more when under heavy load, but mining will typically be very low load, with only a few reads every 4 minutes (especially if the plot files are optimized with a large stagger size). So, I think it's safe to say burst mining will be on the low end, and only consume 7 watts per drive.

Let's assume the entire 3000pb network is powered by a million 3 TB drives. This makes the entire power consumption for a burst mining network with $100m in capital equal to 7 million watts.

Let's compare this to bitcoin. I'm going to use figures from the bitcoinMining hardware comparison wiki page. For the sake of easy math, let's assume that the entire bitcoin mining network is powered by AntMiner S3's. These cost $382 each, so $100m could theoretically buy 261780 AntMiner S3's. Each S3 consumes 340 watts, which would put the entire network's energy consumption at 89 million watts.

This is all just back-of-the-napkin math, but it shows pretty clearly that burst is significantly more energy efficient per dollar of capital than typical proof-of-work mining. Ultimately, it comes down to the dollars per watt that the main mining instrument consumes. Bitcoin miners (ASICs) tend to consume about 1 watts per dollar, whereas burstcoin mining equipment (hard drives) only consume 0.1 watts per dollar.

Also, I think burst mining can be further optimized for energy consumption due to the nature of the mining algorithm that only requires reading once per block. Imagine an advanced mining setup with 4096 hard drives. The plots could be specially arranged such that the miner would only have to read from one drive per block. This would allow the miner to leave all the hard drives completely unpowered the majority of the time. This setup would consume something like a 1/4096th of the power of a traditional setup. That brings the watts/dollar figure for burst down to only 0.000024414. This more optimized mining method is 40,000 times more energy efficient than typical PoW mining.

According to your experience , what would be the typical life span of a HDD mining burst (for example , WD green 3 TB) ? And if it's less than a year , would a HDD that mine burst be able to RMA ?

I plotted with the gpu plotter, using 100GB plots:

gpuplotgenerator.exe generate 0 0 "x:\plots" xxx 2457601 409600 4096 64 2048
gpuplotgenerator.exe generate 0 0 "x:\plots" xxx 2867201 409600 4096 64 2048
gpuplotgenerator.exe generate 0 0 "x:\plots" xxx 3276801 409600 4096 64 2048
gpuplotgenerator.exe generate 0 0 "x:\plots" xxx 3686401 409600 4096 64 2048

But with burst-miner I get different nonce amounts:

plot read done. xxx_2457601_409600_4096 299008 nonces
plot read done. xxx_2867201_409600_4096 327680 nonces
plot read done. xxx_3276801_409600_4096 348160 nonces
plot read done. xxx_3686401_409600_4096 319488 nonces


What am I missing here?

In real life I am managing a petabyte-sized renderfarm, and storage alone at this scale is not easy.

Hey, my "Gaming/Working"-PC runs 24/7 with a single 6TB HDD and this uses a lot of engergy.
Does someone use a Raspberry pi, i have a B+ laying around, but it´s my first rasp i ever had.

Not shure on wich image it would run, is it possible?

Assuming my $100M estimate for bitcoin is correct, that means that a correspondingly secure burst network would have about 1200-1500pb.  So the question is how much energy that much storage would consume.

yeah. Burst lack marketing. But it's good that it lack marketing at early stage because accumulation is cheaper. I don't want to accumulate burst at 500. Now is the best price. Burst only got its first block reward cut. A good time for marketing could be after 2 or 3 block reward cut.

Opps. I'm sorry. But don't worry, be patience. I have bought a bunch of DRKs at 0.02BTC price but never worry about it.
Right now BURST marketcap is less than 200BTC and seems to be not in coinmarketcap ATM. If the community could help the dev boosting his work to achieve his roadmap in reliable timeframe, BURST could reach Storj's marketcap, more or less.