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Quote from: maleemk on May 25, 2017, 06:37:16 PM

After lots of research I am going with
LaCie Porsche Design P'9233 8TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive
The reason is it can be used as both External Drive and after some disassembly can be use and internal drive also. and it is the cheapest 8TB hard drive with 7200 RPM speed. So now i am not only looking for BurstCoin also SiaCoin and StorjCoin as well as future Coin from Bittorrent. Cool

i wish you luck, but it will most certainly have a smr drive in it, which will operate at 5900rpm Wink

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After lots of research I am going with
LaCie Porsche Design P'9233 8TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive
The reason is it can be used as both External Drive and after some disassembly can be use and internal drive also. and it is the cheapest 8TB hard drive with 7200 RPM speed. So now i am not only looking for BurstCoin also SiaCoin and StorjCoin as well as future Coin from Bittorrent. Cool

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Quote from: QuintLeo on May 25, 2017, 04:14:20 PM

Quote from: felixbrucker on May 13, 2017, 02:53:14 AM

Quote from: jwarren81 on May 13, 2017, 02:15:05 AM

For 8TB internal drives, these are the cheapest I've found and they are reliable:

Seagate Archive HDD v2 ST8000AS0002 8TB 5900 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178748

an archive hdd for burstcoin mining, riiiiight Tongue

if i where you i would go for 3 yrs warranty drives with the cheapest tb/$ price

BURST and Seagate Archive drives (or any other SMR drive) are a PERFECT fit for each other.

Archive drives are designed to be written to rarely, read from a lot more - which is exactly how BURST works as you plot ONCE then read lots of times.

They are also THE lowest $/TB of any drive type on the market.

Amazing how they fit your "if I where (sic) you" line perfectly yet you deride them.

the problem with SMR drives is the low write speed of optimized plots, and as you want a single plot file per disk you would either need a pmr 8tb disk or wait for your disk to finish writing with 7mb-ish (sometimes spikes to 30 mb for a few secs) or write unoptimized plots and optimize them on another drive seperately

i'd guesstimate about 12-14 days at least to generate a 8tb optimized plot on smr directly

also at least for me in EU the 8tb smr seagates are more expensive than some other drives (8tb smr being at about 28€/tb, others as low as 24€/tb), in the end it comes down to density (similar to nvidia vs amd setups)

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Quote from: felixbrucker on May 13, 2017, 02:53:14 AM

Quote from: jwarren81 on May 13, 2017, 02:15:05 AM

For 8TB internal drives, these are the cheapest I've found and they are reliable:

Seagate Archive HDD v2 ST8000AS0002 8TB 5900 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178748

an archive hdd for burstcoin mining, riiiiight Tongue

if i where you i would go for 3 yrs warranty drives with the cheapest tb/$ price

BURST and Seagate Archive drives (or any other SMR drive) are a PERFECT fit for each other.

Archive drives are designed to be written to rarely, read from a lot more - which is exactly how BURST works as you plot ONCE then read lots of times.

They are also THE lowest $/TB of any drive type on the market.

Amazing how they fit your "if I where (sic) you" line perfectly yet you deride them.

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Quote from: Rumant on May 13, 2017, 03:19:40 AM

Quote from: Vaccinus on May 13, 2017, 03:11:09 AM

Quote from: Jamievs on May 13, 2017, 02:54:19 AM

Is there any sensible roi in hdd mining?

roi is 6-7 months, very long time, because 1 6TB can only give you 0.045 btc a month and cost $200 i think, but the 4TB give better ratio, should do 0.03 a month and cost only $100, roi 2.5 months, they pumped burst recently, which is a good thing for roi

When you do the ROI, do you include the electricity cost?

there is no need to do that because a hdd consume 5 watt, basically there is zero electricity cost or very minimila, like $10 per month if you have many

Quote from: Ctstrphy on May 13, 2017, 07:31:07 AM

Does mining burstcoin only concerns the free capacity of your HDD or does it still consider your other computer specs?

only capacity not speed, i hope they release a version of burst that rely on speed instead, would be better than plotting your hard drive

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Does mining burstcoin only concerns the free capacity of your HDD or does it still consider your other computer specs?

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question, what is the use of bandwidth?
because a 4TB hdd costs little, and uses almost no power, 6 month roi is nothing, but the real ticker is, how much bandwidth in/out it uses.

i have a shitty 3 M down / 0.5 M up that's why (south america, crappiest ISP ever)
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Quote from: Vaccinus on May 13, 2017, 03:11:09 AM

Quote from: Jamievs on May 13, 2017, 02:54:19 AM

Is there any sensible roi in hdd mining?

roi is 6-7 months, very long time, because 1 6TB can only give you 0.045 btc a month and cost $200 i think, but the 4TB give better ratio, should do 0.03 a month and cost only $100, roi 2.5 months, they pumped burst recently, which is a good thing for roi

When you do the ROI, do you include the electricity cost?

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Quote from: Jamievs on May 13, 2017, 02:54:19 AM

Is there any sensible roi in hdd mining?

roi is 6-7 months, very long time, because 1 6TB can only give you 0.045 btc a month and cost $200 i think, but the 4TB give better ratio, should do 0.03 a month and cost only $100, roi 2.5 months, they pumped burst recently, which is a good thing for roi

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Quote from: Jamievs on May 13, 2017, 02:54:19 AM

Is there any sensible roi in hdd mining?

last time i checked, burstcoin mining wasnt (that) profitable, storj (and maybe sia) offer far better revenues, but currently (at least for storj) it takes quite some time to fill it up, so i assume in like 1-2yrs you can fill up your hdds much faster and actually use storj as mining alternative for hdds

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Is there any sensible roi in hdd mining?

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Quote from: jwarren81 on May 13, 2017, 02:15:05 AM

For 8TB internal drives, these are the cheapest I've found and they are reliable:

Seagate Archive HDD v2 ST8000AS0002 8TB 5900 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178748

There are also these in an external, but I cannot vouch for their reliability:

Seagate Expansion 8TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive STEB8000100 Black
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178951

an archive hdd for burstcoin mining, riiiiight Tongue

if i where you i would go for 3 yrs warranty drives with the cheapest tb/$ price

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For 8TB internal drives, these are the cheapest I've found and they are reliable:

Seagate Archive HDD v2 ST8000AS0002 8TB 5900 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178748

There are also these in an external, but I cannot vouch for their reliability:

Seagate Expansion 8TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop External Hard Drive STEB8000100 Black
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178951

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4tb drives with no complicated tech are the best value for money in terms of dada/$ at the moment. If you're looking for a bang for your buch you should be looking at series like WD blue and Seagate BarraCuda, 4TB of which retails close to 100€.

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I am planning the start Burstcoin Mining. everything else is ready but need some advise on HDD purchase. I would prefere 8TB internal HDD. I am look for economical 80TB i.e 8TBX10 HDD. LOOKING FOR SUGGESTIONS.

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