Storj is WAY worse than BURST now. So I completely switched to BURST. Have two rigs: 1) 47Tb and 2) 61Tb
Mainly 10Tb HDDs. Planning to try new 12Tb, can buy them with 20% discount
Topic: Recently started to try HDD Mining - page 5. (Read 21551 times)
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haha yes im at 600 nonces per minute
and can i just add some TB to my gpu mining rig with a cheap cpu und only 4 gb of ram?
thx
That's what I'm doing. You should expect days to plot, though.thx
haha yes im at 600 nonces per minute
and can i just add some TB to my gpu mining rig with a cheap cpu und only 4 gb of ram?
thx
That's what I'm doing. You should expect days to plot, though. thx
somebody pls tell me what are the advanteges/disadvanteges of external hdd compared to intern hdd?
and can i just add some TB to my gpu mining rig with a cheap cpu und only 4 gb of ram?
thx
and can i just add some TB to my gpu mining rig with a cheap cpu und only 4 gb of ram?
thx
I think the consensus is the external HDD's heat up more and can be more prone to failure.
If your are using Windows you can add a hard drive or two and mine Burst or whatever as it doesn't use much resources.
External or Internal they gather heat only while you are plotting them. After you plot them, mining generates literally no heat at all. No heat, no power consumption. You can generate your plots on your internal HDD and move to your ext. HDD if you like. I personally didn't bother with that. Just plotted them and left them mining. No problems. That's it if you are plotting 3.5" drives btw, do not never ever plot your 2.5" ext. drives. I did plot one of mine and i am not sure but it is half dead now. Read/Write speed randomly goes very low. I probably killed it.
As i specified on topic creating im new at this and chose to go for Storj. But now im gonna use 1TB and try out burst seriously, for one month. If you follow this thread i will come back in 1 month and give you comparison between Storj and Burst. I will probobly be heard from before, becourse i might need help setting up burst Currently plotting the drive.
Currently plotting the drive. 
somebody pls tell me what are the advanteges/disadvanteges of external hdd compared to intern hdd?
and can i just add some TB to my gpu mining rig with a cheap cpu und only 4 gb of ram?
thx
and can i just add some TB to my gpu mining rig with a cheap cpu und only 4 gb of ram?
thx
I think the consensus is the external HDD's heat up more and can be more prone to failure.
If your are using Windows you can add a hard drive or two and mine Burst or whatever as it doesn't use much resources.
somebody pls tell me what are the advanteges/disadvanteges of external hdd compared to intern hdd?
and can i just add some TB to my gpu mining rig with a cheap cpu und only 4 gb of ram?
thx
and can i just add some TB to my gpu mining rig with a cheap cpu und only 4 gb of ram?
thx
It looks like for Sia you could probably net just under $4/TB/month. Would be interesting to see how Storj and Burst stack up on a $/TB/month basis.
Much less on Burst at the moment: https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/tool/calculate
Any new hdd mining coins on horizon?
magbe i think you can choose a another coin which is new,will be more profitable.
Can anyone give me some advice on configuring the gpu plotter devices.txt file for an RX580 8GB? Right now it is slower than my RX 550...
Using the Windows GPU Plotter:1) open the newly created "gpuPlotGenerator-bin-win-x86-2.0.0" folder that was created in the previous step
2) In an empty space within the "gpuPlotGenerator-bin-win-x86-2.0.0" folder do the following:
Hold down the "shift" key and right-click in an empty spot. Select "Open command window here"
(Note: the "Open command window here" option is only available if you hold Shift and Right-Click)
(Alternatively, you could just open a command window manually and do a "CD" to the folder containing the gpuPlotGenerator.exe file)
3) Run the following command to list the GPU's Platform and Platform ID:
Code:
gpuPlotGenerator.exe list platforms
Note down the "ID" number for the proper device platform, this number will be
Example:
4) Run the following commands to find the DeviceID's of the device in your system, replacing
Code:
gpuPlotGenerator.exe list devices
Example:
gpuPlotGenerator.exe list devices 0
Note down the "ID" number for the proper device to use, this will be
Note down the "Max global memory size" number, this will be the MAXIMUM
5) Finally, create the desired plotting information. Here is the basic syntax for the app:
Quote
gpuPlotGenerator.exe generate
As an example, this is the command that I used on my AMD Radeon 7800:
Code:
gpuPlotGenerator.exe generate 0 0 "C:\Path to\plots" 11111222223333344444 14670000 7335000 1000 64 1024
Note: The above command is probably not optimized for the best speed... but it's just an example that works for my card
Has anyone attempted to host on Sia? Lots of buzz/drama around mining it since Bitmain just shipped an ASIC for it, but I haven't heard anything about profiting via hosting. I'm unfamiliar with Storj and Burst (have only heard of them) but have at least poked around the Sia client.
It looks like for Sia you could probably net just under $4/TB/month. Would be interesting to see how Storj and Burst stack up on a $/TB/month basis.
Poking around Newegg it looks like the best you're going to get for storage space is around $40/TB, so ROI just over 10 months.
It looks like for Sia you could probably net just under $4/TB/month. Would be interesting to see how Storj and Burst stack up on a $/TB/month basis.
Poking around Newegg it looks like the best you're going to get for storage space is around $40/TB, so ROI just over 10 months.
Can anyone give me some advice on configuring the gpu plotter devices.txt file for an RX580 8GB? Right now it is slower than my RX 550...
Seems like burst is the most common HDD mining? So noone of you have used Storj Share? The token is even more valued than burst token. I find it weird that no one heard of it, since its easier to set up, more user friendly and more valueable.
I am likely doing something wrong. Still figuring this out.
I don't think so.The whole idea of HDD mining is to avoid using to much processing power to mine, so almost any shitty CPU/GPU will do.
Calculating the nonces takes time, though, and GPU plotting is faster. But it seems more complicated (you need to optimize the files afterward and whatnot).
Ha! I am also building a HDD mining rig. Plotting 8tb drive #1 right now.
I am GPU plotting, much faster. Anyone know if GPU HDD mining is a thing and worth it? I'm trying to figure out if I should use an RX550 4GB for GPU mining or and RX580 8GB.
I am about to attempt to plot 1TB with an RX580, it takes about 5 hours for 1TB on an RX550. I am likely doing something wrong. Still figuring this out.
I am GPU plotting, much faster. Anyone know if GPU HDD mining is a thing and worth it? I'm trying to figure out if I should use an RX550 4GB for GPU mining or and RX580 8GB.
I am about to attempt to plot 1TB with an RX580, it takes about 5 hours for 1TB on an RX550. I am likely doing something wrong. Still figuring this out.
When I decided to buy a 4 TB drive for 100€, I was supposed to get a return of $20 in BURST per month, which sounded ok.
Now it's $8
About the deadlines (the "time thing"), I have to admit I'm not sure I understood it either I'm mining in a pool that said "max deadline is this" and I just set the deadline to this. The thing works so I let it be.
Now it's $8
About the deadlines (the "time thing"), I have to admit I'm not sure I understood it either
I'm mining in a pool that said "max deadline is this" and I just set the deadline to this. The thing works so I let it be. I will be watching this thread. I have 2 Synology servers. wonder if you can run this on them?
I don't know what a synology server is but as long as it has HDD's in it, you can mine BURST.
I will be watching this thread. I have 2 Synology servers. wonder if you can run this on them?
I use this pool and i am happy with the results:
https://0-100-pool.burst.cryptoguru.org/
0-100 means that you don't get rewarded if you find a block but you get all the rewards (%100) from your historical shares. I started with https://50-50-pool.burst.cryptoguru.org/ when i first started to mine in January and it was horrible. I was still plotting my HDD's at that time maybe that was the reason. (probably not, see below) I wasn't making the coins the calculator was saying. (https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/tool/calculate)
In a 50-50 pool you get half of the historical shares and half of the block reward. The problem is you'll never find a block unless you have over 100TB. So I was just wasting my time on 50-50 with my few TB's.
0-100 guru is the best if you are mining on a few TB's like me.
https://0-100-pool.burst.cryptoguru.org/
0-100 means that you don't get rewarded if you find a block but you get all the rewards (%100) from your historical shares. I started with https://50-50-pool.burst.cryptoguru.org/ when i first started to mine in January and it was horrible. I was still plotting my HDD's at that time maybe that was the reason. (probably not, see below) I wasn't making the coins the calculator was saying. (https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/tool/calculate)
In a 50-50 pool you get half of the historical shares and half of the block reward. The problem is you'll never find a block unless you have over 100TB. So I was just wasting my time on 50-50 with my few TB's.
0-100 guru is the best if you are mining on a few TB's like me.
Thanks for this! Been mining for 24 hrs on that pool on the 50-50 one and noticed I got sweet nothing
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