I mean i want to Invest into a CPU or a GPU soon, but i dont know which has more Value to mining so far. Of course i will get some TB HDDs too.
You just need to understand the difference between plotting and mining. Plotting is allocating,or prepping hdd for mining. In that process HDD space is reserved,and than filled wit something (doesn't really matter what
). You need to do this only once.
"Mining" is reading through drive and searching for some specific dataset. It's not very intensive process(essentially,it's just normal reading of data from HDD ),and CPU can easily manage this (unless you have idk,200TB of HDD-s
)
So,conclusion- it's much faster to plot a drive with GPU,you only plot drive once,and for mining any normal CPU will do fine.
So,if it's only important for mining BURST,go with Ryzen (but that PII 955 that you already have will do just fine
Like i mine them, and when its over i plot again? Thats the only thing i didnt get so far
,
You plot drive one time only,and with each new block miner seeks different dataset on your drives.
and it depends on what i invest i guess.
Something like that. But,only thing that really matters is just plain amount of TB allocated. That's your "hashpower",to use GPU mining analogy.
Just space It's not important how fast drives are,just tottal amount of space.
