Spend fortunes on Cpu / Cpu / ASICs and now it's time to spend on HDD: NVIDIA - AMD - WD - SEAGATE SAMSUNG, TOSHIBA, etc ... all happy and rich. You, me, ( WE ) in poverty, with dilapidated equipment, spending hours configuring plots, sad.
By the way. What is the value of each "minted" coin?
Yes, because god forbid you have extra HD space... what would you ever do with it? Get real man. HDD mining is NOTHING like GPU/ASIC, in any way, at all.
Get your facts straight before you come in here spouting off a bunch of nonsense. HDDs are not only
able to be used for multiple purposes, they're
relatively inexpensive, and
hold their value better than almost any other computer component. Then you add the fact that
running one barely takes any power, and what do you get? That's right,
nothing like GPU/ASIC mining.
Let me give you an idea of the difference...I run at my house
right now...
2 BURST mining machines, one a custom built
water cooled i7 extreme edition,
32 gigs of RAM, etc, with 40TB in external HDD space mining BURST (to which I could easily add another 120TB before this computer starts using even a 5th of its power... The machine literally
idles all day, using barely any of its GPU with which
to read the 40TB in drives in around 45 seconds total (with unoptimized plots, could be much lower...)
every 4 minutes or so. Essentially, since I left this computer on all day anyway, it
costs me basically nothingI then have a
rackserver that runs
16 opteron cores, 32gb of ram, and another about 35-40TB BURST mining power. This machine is
completely unnecessary really, as it is less efficient, and uses more power just to run, and I
could easily put these drives on the i7 machine, and still have plenty of power to spare,
and read the plots faster with the GPU... but, I still run this useless machine for no real reason whatsoever. Eventually I plan to add more power to it, and a GPU, but currently it uses its CPU to run the mining,
in the most ineficient way possible, but STILL... I don't really notice much of a hit to power bill.
The two machines above, since they
ran all the time even before they were mining BURST, basically
didn't increase my power bill at all when I started using them for BURST. My power bill
was around 220 dollars give or take per month, and
maybe 250 with these machines mining, in one of the most inefficient ways,
(probably less) and
not optimized at all as far as plots...
NOW...
I also have 3...
yes only 3... of the
Antminer S3 (not too old, but not that new either) that give me just over
1.4 TH of BTC SHA mining power... I can
only even attempt to run these things in the winter, because the
HEAT KILLS ME, and I refuse to even attempt in the summer. Then, I
make use of them if I can as heaters in locations in my house
that I don't mind the NOISE, and have to
make whole special setups just for them, with
dedicated wifi adapter, and extension cords/thick industrial power cables, etc... and make sure they're
not getting too HOT in the location, monitor them for quite some time, then finally say "okay, they're decent"...
2 of them, I have
no place in my house to run them, so they don't even get to be heaters, because even these small machines are
so LOUD that I can't stand to have them even across the room from me. Drowns out conversation... So, these are r
unning in the garage, nice and cool considering the 20 degree temps here lately, but not able to use their excess heat like I do with the other, to heat a particularly cold upstairs room in my house, which I do find I like...
HOWEVER...
These 3 small miners, draw about the same amount of power as my entire house,
including the BURST miners. Since part of the power is paid a bit by using them as heat, I'll just say that they cost me 175/month or so... hell, I'll be generous, and say 150 though I'm certain it is more.
If I were to cash out my btc mined each month,
it would pay about 120 of that... leaving me mining at a pretty substantial loss. Luckily, it isn't a big deal to me, and I want to get use of these
LITERALLY USELESS FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN THIS, machines. Their value is basically nothing, when only a year ago they were considered fairly valuable...
My drives for BURST, are worth about the same as I paid for them over a year ago...So... you tell me,
which is smarter? Which makes more sense... should be pretty obvious.
I think I'll max my i7 out on BURST mining power just to see how much I can make it handle. To really show how big the difference really is.
on another note, here's the NEW BURST THREAD LINK....
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1323657.0;topicseen
