Burstcoin questions

[rico666]

I like the concept. I hate the "documentation".

Happy if someone could clarify these questions:

Multiple Plots vs. 1 big Plot

Are there any advantages/disadvantages of having multiple plots vs. a big one? Say I had a RAID0 with 8GB instead of 4 x 2TB disks - would there be an advantage to have 4 x 2TB plot files on this RAID or should I go for a big 8TB plot file?

Moving Plots cross machines

I have an old server I could use for BURST mining (said 8TB RAID0), but it has no GPU and quite weak CPUs. I would like to generate the plot file on another server and move it to this one. Is that ok or has the plot file to be generated on the machine where it resides later?

Multiple Plot files

What happens if I have two identical plot files on two different machines? Or merely a copy of a plot file - say 4 times on the same machine?

I have finally a 1.8 TB file after 14 hours of plotting it, using 100GB RAM ( GPU Plotter software shitty, but different story )

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So it has 7200000 nonces and started at nonce 0. Next file should start at nonce 7200001 ?

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[reids]

I like the concept. I hate the "documentation".

Happy if someone could clarify these questions:

Multiple Plots vs. 1 big Plot

Are there any advantages/disadvantages of having multiple plots vs. a big one? Say I had a RAID0 with 8GB instead of 4 x 2TB disks - would there be an advantage to have 4 x 2TB plot files on this RAID or should I go for a big 8TB plot file?

Nope absolutely no advantages or disadvantages. why RAID them though? You're effectively halving your mining speed by having them in RAID.

Moving Plots cross machines

I have an old server I could use for BURST mining (said 8TB RAID0), but it has no GPU and quite weak CPUs. I would like to generate the plot file on another server and move it to this one. Is that ok or has the plot file to be generated on the machine where it resides later?

You can certainly plug the hard disk into the better machine, plot and then move the hard drive into the "mining" pc.

Multiple Plot files

What happens if I have two identical plot files on two different machines? Or merely a copy of a plot file - say 4 times on the same machine?

I have finally a 1.8 TB file after 14 hours of plotting it, using 100GB RAM ( GPU Plotter software shitty, but different story )

<numkey>_0_7200000_400000

So it has 7200000 nonces and started at nonce 0. Next file should start at nonce 7200001 ?

Almost right, you add the last 2 numbers together to get the new starting nonce = 7200000+400000+1 = 7600001 would be your next nonce

[mrankin]

I like the concept. I hate the "documentation".

Happy if someone could clarify these questions:

Multiple Plots vs. 1 big Plot

Are there any advantages/disadvantages of having multiple plots vs. a big one? Say I had a RAID0 with 8GB instead of 4 x 2TB disks - would there be an advantage to have 4 x 2TB plot files on this RAID or should I go for a big 8TB plot file?

Nope absolutely no advantages or disadvantages. why RAID them though? You're effectively halving your mining speed by having them in RAID.

Both options he gave are RAID0 so no RAID at all. He is just asking whether to have a single partition across multiple disks or not.

[reids]

I like the concept. I hate the "documentation".

Happy if someone could clarify these questions:

Multiple Plots vs. 1 big Plot

Are there any advantages/disadvantages of having multiple plots vs. a big one? Say I had a RAID0 with 8GB instead of 4 x 2TB disks - would there be an advantage to have 4 x 2TB plot files on this RAID or should I go for a big 8TB plot file?

Nope absolutely no advantages or disadvantages. why RAID them though? You're effectively halving your mining speed by having them in RAID.

Both options he gave are RAID0 so no RAID at all. He is just asking whether to have a single partition across multiple disks or not.

Completely mis-read that, my apologies!

[rico666]

Nope absolutely no advantages or disadvantages. why RAID them though? You're effectively halving your mining speed by having them in RAID.

Speed of the HDD is an issue? Or do you mean "halving speed" if I had a RAID1 and thus half the capacity?
Therefore => RAID0.

You can certainly plug the hard disk into the better machine, plot and then move the hard drive into the "mining" pc.

Ok. Thx for the clarification.

<numkey>_0_7200000_400000

So it has 7200000 nonces and started at nonce 0. Next file should start at nonce 7200001 ?

Almost right, you add the last 2 numbers together to get the new starting nonce = 7200000+400000+1 = 7600001 would be your next nonce

Are you sure? 400000 is the staggersize, the Starting nonce was 0 and I did 7200000 nonces.

Why should the starting nonce be 7600001? I think I would be missing 7200000 - 7600000 nonces.

BTW - next question - does that matter? Having "holes" in the nonces of the plots? Or put it another way: what are consequences of this?

[JamesAdams]

BTW - next question - does that matter? Having "holes" in the nonces of the plots? Or put it another way: what are consequences of this?

No the holes don't matter and you would have overlapping nonces if you put let's say nonce 1 for a file and nonce 2 for the next

[reids]

Nope absolutely no advantages or disadvantages. why RAID them though? You're effectively halving your mining speed by having them in RAID.

Speed of the HDD is an issue? Or do you mean "halving speed" if I had a RAID1 and thus half the capacity?
Therefore => RAID0.

You can certainly plug the hard disk into the better machine, plot and then move the hard drive into the "mining" pc.

Ok. Thx for the clarification.

<numkey>_0_7200000_400000

So it has 7200000 nonces and started at nonce 0. Next file should start at nonce 7200001 ?

Almost right, you add the last 2 numbers together to get the new starting nonce = 7200000+400000+1 = 7600001 would be your next nonce

Are you sure? 400000 is the staggersize, the Starting nonce was 0 and I did 7200000 nonces.

Why should the starting nonce be 7600001? I think I would be missing 7200000 - 7600000 nonces.

BTW - next question - does that matter? Having "holes" in the nonces of the plots? Or put it another way: what are consequences of this?

Apologies again, that would be for another hard-drive, you're correct the next nonce would be 7200001 then. Holes in the nonce plots don't matter at all. No disadvantage. This describes it best: https://www.burstnation.com/wbb/index.php?thread/2504-nonces-are-frustrating-me/&postID=37943#post37943