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Title: Would 1.5 Gbps HDD or SSD suffice? Post by: rizabbasi on November 30, 2017, 12:17:41 PM 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 Title: Re: Would 1.5 Gbps HDD or SSD suffice? Post by: Mattthev on November 30, 2017, 12:22:56 PM Hi, I assume it uses SATA? It will be only slow. It's definitly not SSD.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 Title: Re: Would 1.5 Gbps HDD or SSD suffice? Post by: bathrobehero on November 30, 2017, 12:31:58 PM 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. Title: Re: Would 1.5 Gbps HDD or SSD suffice? Post by: fapar on November 30, 2017, 06:15:53 PM 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. Title: Re: Would 1.5 Gbps HDD or SSD suffice? Post by: QuintLeo on December 01, 2017, 12:31:20 AM 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. |