Recently started to try HDD Mining

[shibob]

I joined to mine Burst coin from last December. It's quite interesting as it consumes not much power.

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I dont even know that you also mine Burst Coin, I just think you mine ETH haha. How much Tb of your farm, and I wonder why you use all HDD not external hard drive which is typically cheaper and consumes less power than HDD. Btw, your setup is too cool. I have only 80Tb but I just make it like this haha.

Buy some usb fans for those HDD's like this one;
https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/products/accessories/usb-fan.html

I own 3 of those those HDD's and they get pretty hot after some time. Probably not dangerous but keeping them cool might extend their life.

One fan can cool 3 of your HDD's. Those seagates have 2 usb ports on the front panel. You can dial your fan there.

Thank you very much for your suggestion. Yeah, it's quite hot without fan. Actually, I open the window all the time for this room (the living room ), I am going to move 1 of 1 GPU rig back home here, and I think I will buy 1 40cm fan to make all cool.

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[flower1024]

Okey, i told you guys that i would come back after i mined both BURST and Storj for a month. Here it is : BURST is shit, it pays NOTHING and the coin itself is pretty useless. Storj on the other hand, it pays OK! Its definetly profitable if you only count electricity used for HDDs. The program used is also nice to use and user friendly. Delete ur BURST mining and start with Storj.

Good how many coins you mined mate?

And how you split your 30 TB storage for both Burst and Storj? 50 - 50 or what?

I have 10 TB storage planning to mine Burst coin but after hearing your experience I am planning to mine Storj.

[Ultegra134]

Hi guys!

Like many of you guys ive mined with GPUs for over two years now, not on a mig scale, but as a hobby since i love the hardware parts of computers. Ive also used CPU mining, even tho its not profitable atm its still doable if you pick the right coin and hope to god it increases in value. If it doesnt, hey who cares. It was fun mining!
Anyway to the point.

I recently took up HDD mining. Or HDD Staking. Whatever you want to call it.
I did some research, and what i found out there are two big players here, Storj and Burst. For what ever reason i decided to try Storj. Since im a hardware freak i had about 30TB of harddrives laying around in my home, and now im completly set up and started mining.

There is not much about it on this forum, and the posts/topics that relate to HDD minig are outdated. Thats why i wanted to start this one.

What might i expect? Is it profitable? Is it laughable? Is the coin i chose "Storj" a joke?

Let me hear your inputs, toughts and maybe share some of your experience as we all always do in this community!

Wow, that's quite a lot of space you have there. Doesn't SiaCoin offer something similar? From what I've read, you basically share your HDDs by letting others use your allocated space and in return you are receiving SiaCoin, is it the same thing as the one you are mentioning?

[shield132]

Okey, i told you guys that i would come back after i mined both BURST and Storj for a month. Here it is : BURST is shit, it pays NOTHING and the coin itself is pretty useless. Storj on the other hand, it pays OK! Its definetly profitable if you only count electricity used for HDDs. The program used is also nice to use and user friendly. Delete ur BURST mining and start with Storj.

I have no experience in HDD mining and never/ever got interested to try it. Btw is burst really that shit? Because on Bitsler (gambling website) there was a massive request to add this coin as another currency for gambling.
How much profit do you get on mining storj? And on burst too?
Would continue old GPU mining, that's best to my mind.

[DannHomes]

I have no experience in HDD mining and never/ever got interested to try it. Btw is burst really that shit? Because on Bitsler (gambling website) there was a massive request to add this coin as another currency for gambling.
How much profit do you get on mining storj? And on burst too?
Would continue old GPU mining, that's best to my mind.

The profit of mining Burst or Storj is not that much. I quit mining Storj because it seems my HDDs (a lot) were only filled by a bit mb for renting.
For mining Burst, adter the difficulty was up last December, each 100 Tb only give me ~6500 Burst if I calculate correctly.

[segotiwul]

if we are looking for ASIC miners like L3 antminer, then we should return the investment we have. to expedite our obedience to the electric bill that is the responsibility of each of us.investors have tried their best in customer service.

[Cryptoipad]

I hope this hdd mining Burstcoin does not require CPU or GPU power mining Burstcoin require HDD space  the more, the better before you start to mine, you need to allocate HDD space for mining, which can take several hours but is done only once if you want to stop the mining, you can delete the allocated HDD files without any problems of some other business. you need to do some transactions on your wallet in order to be registered as a Burst coin user. Without is you won't be able to mining process.Now to the mining process click start Mining in your Burst Coin wallet. We have already set our mine so you don't have to choose it again from the dropdown list. Just click on the Start Mining on started to HDD mining process this system.

[ManicMiner23]

Hello.

What are the profits for hdd mining, is there any profit calculator?

Thanks.

[mindrust]

Hello.

What are the profits for hdd mining, is there any profit calculator?

Thanks.

Profits are extremely low at the moment. Unless you have access to cheap hard drives or you already have them, HDD mining isn't profitable much. You can calculate here:
https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/tool/calculate

A 8tb HDD makes $4.5 in a month, a 8tb seagate ($150) ROI's itself in 30 months. ROI is way worse than GPU's. But there are some good news too; HDD's are futureproof. HDD development is much slower than GPU development and you don't have to worry about their power consumption. As long as you get them cheap, you can fill your room with them. GPU's have more coins to mine though. That's a weakness for BURST.

If you believe in the project there isn't any reason to get in now.

[ManicMiner23]

Hello.

What are the profits for hdd mining, is there any profit calculator?

Thanks.

Profits are extremely low at the moment. Unless you have access to cheap hard drives or you already have them, HDD mining isn't profitable much. You can calculate here:
https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/tool/calculate

A 8tb HDD makes $4.5 in a month, a 8tb seagate ($150) ROI's itself in 30 months. ROI is way worse than GPU's. But there are some good news too; HDD's are futureproof. HDD development is much slower than GPU development and you don't have to worry about their power consumption. As long as you get them cheap, you can fill your room with them. GPU's have more coins to mine though. That's a weakness for BURST.

If you believe in the project there isn't any reason to get in now.

A good question would be to know if is possible to dual mining gpu + hdd mining, in this case I would find it interesting as I can access some cheap or even free hdd's and it would be an extra profit to add to the gpu mining, if not, for me, does not worth it.

[mindrust]

Hello.

What are the profits for hdd mining, is there any profit calculator?

Thanks.

Profits are extremely low at the moment. Unless you have access to cheap hard drives or you already have them, HDD mining isn't profitable much. You can calculate here:
https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/tool/calculate

A 8tb HDD makes $4.5 in a month, a 8tb seagate ($150) ROI's itself in 30 months. ROI is way worse than GPU's. But there are some good news too; HDD's are futureproof. HDD development is much slower than GPU development and you don't have to worry about their power consumption. As long as you get them cheap, you can fill your room with them. GPU's have more coins to mine though. That's a weakness for BURST.

If you believe in the project there isn't any reason to get in now.

A good question would be to know if is possible to dual mining gpu + hdd mining, in this case I would find it interesting as I can access some cheap or even free hdd's and it would be an extra profit to add to the gpu mining, if not, for me, does not worth it.

Yes you can do it in theory. If you saw my post from the 4th page, I was doing it just like you said.

One fan can cool 3 of your HDD's. Those seagates have 2 usb ports on the front panel. You can dial your fan there.

Waiting for the new 20xx GPU's and more money, so I can add more HDD's  

But for some reason something went wrong. My ping went too high. I started to have connection interruptions, started to get too many rejected shares and after a while wifi just didn't work at all. I couldn't keep it going. Whether it was a windows 10 problem or my usb wifi couldn't handle the statical electricity which was generated by the HDD's and my GPU I don't know. The problem was one of those I am sure.

Anyway I had to move my HDD's to my laptop again. I installed Win7 to my GPU PC and its working fine now. (without HDD's) Probably will try again later. (hate to carry hdd's between rooms. Installing w7 to a new mobo was also too cancerous , I'll probably let it run like this for a while.  ) Will let you know about the outcome when (if) I do.

[shibob]

I joined to mine Burst coin from last December. It's quite interesting as it consumes not much power.

Hi mate, your rig setup is very cool, coolest burst rig I've ever seen for sure. So I wonder do you currently still keep mining Burst coin? Btw, for your Burst coin rigs, how's about your expected ROI? and also how much you need to pay for electric bill per month?

[shibob]

One fan can cool 3 of your HDD's. Those seagates have 2 usb ports on the front panel. You can dial your fan there.

This is my mini rig:

But for some reason something went wrong. My ping went too high. I started to have connection interruptions, started to get too many rejected shares and after a while wifi just didn't work at all. I couldn't keep it going. Whether it was a windows 10 problem or my usb wifi couldn't handle the statical electricity which was generated by the HDD's and my GPU I don't know. The problem was one of those I am sure.

Hi, your setup looks very cool as well. Could you please share me what's that monitor? does it have HDMI? And you mean the rejected shares is for GPU right?

I am thinking to rent some of my HDDs to Storj but as far as I know it may take very long time to fill all the storage with Storj.

[mindrust]

Hi, your setup looks very cool as well. Could you please share me what's that monitor? does it have HDMI? And you mean the rejected shares is for GPU right?

Rejected shares were GPU shares at first because blago HDD miner can submit shares as soon as its able to. You can only fail to submit if another block gets found before you submit your ongoing shares. (and there are mostly a few minutes between BURST blocks) Anyway then my connection became completely unstable. I wasn't even able to connect to the internet.

I didn't try it yet with win7, will do it today probably.

That monitor is a 7" raspberry pi monitor. Yes It has an HDMI port. The one in this link.

[shibob]

Rejected shares were GPU shares at first because blago HDD miner can submit shares as soon as its able to. You can only fail to submit if another block gets found before you submit your ongoing shares. Anyway then my connection became completely unstable. I wasn't even able to connect to the internet.

I didn't try it yet with win7, will do it today probably.

That monitor is a 7" raspberry pi monitor. Yes It has an HDMI port. The one in this link.

Thank you very much! That portable Raspberry pi 7 inch LCD is exactly the thing I need now. Whenever I come to check my rigs, I always need to hand a long with 3kg monitor (
For rejected share, I think in most block my miner could not meet the deadline as well, my total plotted files are around 80Tb. But the mined Burst is coming less recently, just ~3200 Burst per month.

[whoismoses]

...my total plotted files are around 80Tb. But the mined Burst is coming less recently, just ~3200 Burst per month.

What pool are you using? I have 58tb plotted and getting about 2,700 BURST per month on POCC 0-100. I found I got more in 0-100 than in 50-50.

[shibob]

...my total plotted files are around 80Tb. But the mined Burst is coming less recently, just ~3200 Burst per month.

What pool are you using? I have 58tb plotted and getting about 2,700 BURST per month on POCC 0-100. I found I got more in 0-100 than in 50-50.

I'm mining at pool.burstmining.club. I dont know how's about the pool rewards, normally I got average 55 Burst per day but even I found a block, I just got only around 830 Burst for that block.

[mindrust]

Rejected shares were GPU shares at first because blago HDD miner can submit shares as soon as its able to. You can only fail to submit if another block gets found before you submit your ongoing shares. Anyway then my connection became completely unstable. I wasn't even able to connect to the internet.

I didn't try it yet with win7, will do it today probably.

That monitor is a 7" raspberry pi monitor. Yes It has an HDMI port. The one in this link.

Thank you very much! That portable Raspberry pi 7 inch LCD is exactly the thing I need now. Whenever I come to check my rigs, I always need to hand a long with 3kg monitor (
For rejected share, I think in most block my miner could not meet the deadline as well, my total plotted files are around 80Tb. But the mined Burst is coming less recently, just ~3200 Burst per month.

OK I made the tests. The rig works stable with Win7 while both HDD's and GPU are connected and mining coins. I am doing one thing different though. Instead of running nicehash, mining Raven now. Don't think it'll change anything. No signs of connection losses since last hour.

I didn't experience it myself till this month and now I know it.

Rumors are right. Win10 is just an incomplete trojan horse which they threw at us for free. Win7 is still the best OS they made.

*Maybe its too early to verify the situation, still gotta wait for a day at least*
Ok waited long enough. Yep w10 is shit.

[dimpsk]

Hi guys!

Like many of you guys ive mined with GPUs for over two years now, not on a mig scale, but as a hobby since i love the hardware parts of computers. Ive also used CPU mining, even tho its not profitable atm its still doable if you pick the right coin and hope to god it increases in value. If it doesnt, hey who cares. It was fun mining!
Anyway to the point.

I recently took up HDD mining. Or HDD Staking. Whatever you want to call it.
I did some research, and what i found out there are two big players here, Storj and Burst. For what ever reason i decided to try Storj. Since im a hardware freak i had about 30TB of harddrives laying around in my home, and now im completly set up and started mining.

There is not much about it on this forum, and the posts/topics that relate to HDD minig are outdated. Thats why i wanted to start this one.

What might i expect? Is it profitable? Is it laughable? Is the coin i chose "Storj" a joke?

Let me hear your inputs, toughts and maybe share some of your experience as we all always do in this community!

It doesnot worth it,  forget it buddy.  HDD mining is just worse then CPU mining speaking frankly.

[whoismoses]

It doesnot worth it,  forget it buddy.  HDD mining is just worse then CPU mining speaking frankly.

If prices stay static any kind of mining isn't worth getting into. That said, BURST mining wasn't a good venture to get into before recent pull back. That said, it is a little less risky as you can easily repurpose your HDs for a NAS.