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Topic: Would 1.5 Gbps HDD or SSD suffice? (Read 208 times)

legendary
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November 30, 2017, 07:31:20 PM
#5
It's plenty - lots of miners that run their farms using USB "pen drives" to boot/run from.
 Other than ETH and clones using older software that built the DAG file on the CPU/HD, and the "HD mining" coins like BURST/Storj/SIA, nothing in mining uses the HD very much if at all once it has started actually mining or needs a lot of bandwidth.

 Some of my early mining rigs ran on EIDE interface hard drives - which were a LOT slower than anything SATA.

sr. member
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November 30, 2017, 01:15:53 PM
#4
Hi,

Just want to know that if I can use 160 GB HDD/SSD from my hp 6910p laptop (not sure thats HDD or SSD). One thing I want to point out that its 1.5 Gbps. I know space is OK but not sure if 1.5 Gbps would suffice or not.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Regards,

Rizwan


Build a rig on a very simple HDD with a capacity of SATA-1 1.5 Gbit/s Conventional mining does not require high-bandwidth HDD (SATA-3/SCSI/SAS) or SSD use. This will be enough to operate Windows and miner.
legendary
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November 30, 2017, 07:31:58 AM
#3
What do you want to use it for?

In any case, SSDs are almost uncomparably faster when working with small chunks of data - which is the majority of everyday workload. So if capacity/cost is not your priority, SSDs are the way to go.
sr. member
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November 30, 2017, 07:22:56 AM
#2
Hi,

Just want to know that if I can use 160 GB HDD/SSD from my hp 6910p laptop (not sure thats HDD or SSD). One thing I want to point out that its 1.5 Gbps. I know space is OK but not sure if 1.5 Gbps would suffice or not.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Regards,

Rizwan
I assume it uses SATA? It will be only slow. It's definitly not SSD.
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November 30, 2017, 07:17:41 AM
#1
Hi,

Just want to know that if I can use 160 GB HDD/SSD from my hp 6910p laptop (not sure thats HDD or SSD). One thing I want to point out that its 1.5 Gbps. I know space is OK but not sure if 1.5 Gbps would suffice or not.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Regards,

Rizwan
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