Topic: Recently started to try HDD Mining - page 4. (Read 21525 times)

How do you download another miner? Didn't understand this one.

You can go to another pool which accepts bigger deadlines maybe but still the other dudes will submit by far better deadlines than yours and you'll still get nothing.

Get more terabytes.

And the only way to fix it is to use more Terabytes? Not change pool to more deadline or downloading another miner?

It basically says your miner is out of date. (not enough terabytes)

Miner inflation.

Yes, the reason i use this pool is for the very long deadline. Since i only use about 1,3TB i tought that would suffice. But what you are saying is that i need longer deadline? Or what to you mean if it falls "outside the rage of the pool"

Im sorry for not understanding, im new to HDD mining as i stated in the OP.
Thanks mate.

You are scamming yourself. Do not mine on 50-50. Move to 0-100. If you wonder why, see my earlier messages.

how much power does it use???

I believe that quite often you simply don't find a deadline (not enought hdd space), and that othertimes the DL is not confirmed if it falls outside the allowed range for the pool. I see the pool you are on allows very long DL, the ones i mine allow no more then 30days, some allow only 24hr deadlines, so i think that is what you are seeing.

Can someone experienced with burst mining explain to me what is happening here?

https://imgur.com/a/02nim

I cant seem to get the DL for every block? Or what is going on? For every block im supposed to DL 2 seperate things right? Sometimes i just download one, and sometimes it doesnt even do one! i use Qbundle and mine on 0-100-pool.burst.cryptoguru.org.

Hoping some of you got an explaination for what is happening here 

Yea, I get that. I still think given the small space 7.25, likely to grow to 25tb in the next couple weeks I should use a 0-100 pool, right?

I see that you should wait a few days rather than 12 hours before drawing conclusions ;-)

Can anyone validate that my payments for Burst mining are what I should expect? I've looked at the calculators and they don't line up.

I have 7.25 TB plotted, running on an external 8TB hard drive on USB3.

I am using JMiner, my average round time for the 7.25 TB is 43s. I am on a 50-50 pool.

I have been mining for about 12 hours and have only made .12 burst. According to the calculator I should make about 11 burst per day.

I want to switch to a 0-100 pool, but I don't have a burst to pay the pull to switch. Anyone willing to send me a single burst?


Does anyone see anything out of the norm?

Depending on what you call "old", you might make a few cents a month

Ok

I will try it with some old HDD

Thanks

Which means you should plot half your space, then optimize, then replot half the remaining space...
Or can you plot on one HDD, then optimize that whole drive onto another?


You are calculating the nonces, not downloading them.

Never been an issue, burst uses virtually no bandwidth that I am aware of.
I have mined it on a mobile connection with no real issues, just a bit of lag that's all.
Also works fine on as low 5mb/s connection out in the countryside.
J

Hello

Nobody talks about bandwidth used by hdd mining.

I think it is the essential point.

Filling 10 To width ADSL is pretty not possible.

Or I missed something ?

A cheap old AMD x4 845 (quad core with AVX2) will plot at about 8000 nonces / min
If you are going multi drive, use gpupoltter and plot to say 3-4 drives at once...it will take hours to get the correct settings but when you do, you could plot say 8000 nonces / min on each of 4 drives at the same time...
I don't have my old settings (I plotted last lot with cpu) but with R9 270 I think I was plotting 1TB on 3 drives at about 11,000 nonces/min each, so about 3TB every 6 hours...although NVidia has ocl support, if gpu plotting use an AMD card, must better. (remember to use buffered and then optimise - direct is crappy)
J

Hi Guys,

Just my findings.

Plotting....with Ryzen 1700 no o/c about 17,000 nonces / min, so 1Tb takes around 4-5 hours I seem to remember

Mining with 28.92TB getting around 10-30 coins a day...have tried various pools, some people seem to be getting about double what I get but even so 20-60 burst a day is simply not worth it (30 burst roughly £0.70 per day - 4 x 8tb drives cost £760, so about 1000 days ROI) oh and full ring takes 115Watts which in the Uk is about £0.39 a day so profit is about 31p a day...

Not trying to put a downer on things, I really enjoyed mining burst last January, and made around 30,000 which I sold for around 12 sats (up from 6 sats), but now I think you need to have upwards of 100TB to make it worth while, and I honestly don't know how you buy 100Tb of space cheap enough...
I'll keep running through to the summer, but only because I have already bought the drives, but right now if I didn't own them, I certainly wouldn't buy them specially for burst (or storj), simply too low a return.
Talk to as many peeps as poss, some may have much better luck than me, also half the values from any calculators you see online, they really are a very enthusiastic guide.
Also in terms of expected difficulty there are several miners building 1PB (1000TB) rigs which will be live in the next few weeks, so diff will jump massively...so go careful and enjoy.
J

^

Any chance of a group buy? Are you located in Europe by chance? Nice discount - how did you manage to bag it?  

I have looked into all three coins and Burst seems good, but Storj isn't far off. Maybe $2 per TB. Would it make sense to mine 70% Burst and 30% Storj?

Calatravo> Oh, that's bad, I was achieving over 1000 with a shitty Celeron 3900, one core and 1 GB of allocated RAM.
Also, I've had to decrease slightly the plotting priority so that the GPU mining wouldn't be affected.

ps_jb> What a huge operation! To scale it to that level, do you use a NAS or some dedicated hardware?
An idea of your cost-per-TB?
Plotting solution?