Recently started to try HDD Mining

[Tidsdilatation]

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There is not much about it on this forum, and the posts/topics that relate to HDD minig are outdated.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!

[phuocduong]

I prepair set up mining with HDD, .... same question with you to all member?

Thanks you!

[ps_jb]

30Tb on BURST may give you ~1000 coins in a week

[Tidsdilatation]

30Tb on BURST may give you ~1000 coins in a week

At current price that is around 30 dollars, thats not as bad as i tought! Its quite ok accually! Hard drives takes alot less energy and they can hold for years being on 24/7 with alot of stress. You got any experience with Storj Coin?

[szafa]

Storj if i remember correctly is working like share hdd space.

[Kapz786]

I'm trying Burst but with a much smaller set up - only around 10TB. The plotting takes forever and I'm mainly using removable drives. I found it a bit tricky to set up as Im used to traditional mining software/bat files etc.

Just make sure with Burst you go to a faucet and get your first coin free and dont use it to change account name you need the coin to set up mining.

[Tidsdilatation]

I'm trying Burst but with a much smaller set up - only around 10TB. The plotting takes forever and I'm mainly using removable drives. I found it a bit tricky to set up as Im used to traditional mining software/bat files etc.

Just make sure with Burst you go to a faucet and get your first coin free and dont use it to change account name you need the coin to set up mining.

Yeah the reason i chose Storj was that i found burst so complicated, with timings and shit. Didnt get it to work properly, and this the plotting time is horrible, especially for larger hard drives like i have. Storj was basicly just download and run, buts its an ERC20 token, and get payed out once a month. Thats the downsidei guess.

[mindrust]

Mining with 3 seagate external 8tb's. Returns are too low at the moment. The time i decided to mine BURST my expected ROI was around 6 months. Now its over a year. (I am not complaining though because all alts/btc experiencing this)



One thing i need to mention, never ever try to mine/plot on your 2.5"  ext. drives. They get hot easily and they'll just die because of heat.

*I see you decided to go with storj. I don't know much about storj but burst is not as complicated as many think. Sure it is not download and go but if it was like that it wouldn't be fun. I see burst/hdd mining as a legit competitor to asic&gpu mining. You should try mining burst with a few TB's first maybe you'll like it.

[Tidsdilatation]

Mining with 3 seagate external 8tb's. Returns are too low at the moment. The time i decided to mine BURST my expected ROI was around 6 months. Now its over a year. (I am not complaining though because all alts/btc experiencing this)



One thing i need to mention, never ever try to mine/plot on your 2.5"  ext. drives. They get hot easily and they'll just die because of heat.

*I see you decided to go with storj. I don't know much about storj but burst is not as complicated as many think. Sure it is not download and go but if it was like that it wouldn't be fun. I see burst/hdd mining as a legit competitor to asic&gpu mining. You should try mining burst with a few TB's first maybe you'll like it.

Yeah ive been playing with it, but there is something with a deadline i cannot understand, and i miss it and i dont get shares. Its very weird, do you got any good pools for BURST you can tell me about? the pre determined pools in GUI was shit and with weird deadlines.

[antsin]

Will follow the thread. I have around 200 TB in my studio! I should use it for this!

[mindrust]

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.

[Calatravo]

Do u run these HDD with ur gpu rig? And how much power do they pull?

[tokexchain]

HDD mining has been around for a while now, with such long times between payouts, some unscrupulous mining pools have signed up members then shut down shop and run off with the funds, choose wisely in your pools, there are lots of recommendations such as on forums like this and crypto mining reviews web sites.

[Kapz786]

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.

Thanks for this! Been mining for 24 hrs on that pool on the 50-50 one and noticed I got sweet nothing

[blackenedvoodoo]

I will be watching this thread.  I have 2 Synology servers.  wonder if you can run this on them?

[mindrust]

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.

[Amstellodamois]

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.

[whoismoses]

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.

[Amstellodamois]

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).

[Tidsdilatation]

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.