[ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient HDD Mining | New 1.2.3 Fork block 92000

[iram3130]

Posting here for future reference, looks promising.

[Sy]

Raid5 won't help much since you even sacrifice one disk, if you set it up just for mining go jbod or raid0...

And yes, people are expanding and still building their systems, plot generation is awfully slow.

JBOD and RAID0 have no form of parity. JBOD can be recovered compared to RAID0, but RAID5 has parity and more performance than JBOD. One disk sacrifice is better than losing all the data possible, especially on RAID0. Originally I was going to do a RAID0/JBOD, but after thinking about it, I didn't want the chance of failure. Good thing about JBOD, you can mix and match hdd's, and use their full capacity. As with RAID, you ideally want to match identical hdd's.

Your point?

I wouldn't post that if i didnt know what i am talking about but thanks for the lesson...

Why should i care about parity for some mining plots i can even recreat exact copies of IF a drive fails...one more drive is imho worth more than the slight chance that ONE drive will fail within the next days / weeks.

[luxe]

why create a raid anyway ... e.g. for windows you can simply hardlink plot-files from different drives to your mining 'plots' folder ...

Code:

mklink /h c:\pocminer\plots\your_plot_file x:\your_plot_file

[SpeedDemon13]

Raid5 won't help much since you even sacrifice one disk, if you set it up just for mining go jbod or raid0...

And yes, people are expanding and still building their systems, plot generation is awfully slow.

JBOD and RAID0 have no form of parity. JBOD can be recovered compared to RAID0, but RAID5 has parity and more performance than JBOD. One disk sacrifice is better than losing all the data possible, especially on RAID0. Originally I was going to do a RAID0/JBOD, but after thinking about it, I didn't want the chance of failure. Good thing about JBOD, you can mix and match hdd's, and use their full capacity. As with RAID, you ideally want to match identical hdd's.

Your point?

I wouldn't post that if i didnt know what i am talking about but thanks for the lesson...

Why should i care about parity for some mining plots i can even recreat exact copies of IF a drive fails...one more drive is imho worth more than the slight chance that ONE drive will fail within the next days / weeks.

You have your opinion and I have mine, I respect yours...

I guess I'll just wait and see how it goes with this small 500GB hdd before investing into a few 4TB drives.

[Sy]

Raid5 won't help much since you even sacrifice one disk, if you set it up just for mining go jbod or raid0...

And yes, people are expanding and still building their systems, plot generation is awfully slow.

JBOD and RAID0 have no form of parity. JBOD can be recovered compared to RAID0, but RAID5 has parity and more performance than JBOD. One disk sacrifice is better than losing all the data possible, especially on RAID0. Originally I was going to do a RAID0/JBOD, but after thinking about it, I didn't want the chance of failure. Good thing about JBOD, you can mix and match hdd's, and use their full capacity. As with RAID, you ideally want to match identical hdd's.

Your point?

I wouldn't post that if i didnt know what i am talking about but thanks for the lesson...

Why should i care about parity for some mining plots i can even recreat exact copies of IF a drive fails...one more drive is imho worth more than the slight chance that ONE drive will fail within the next days / weeks.

You have your opinion and I have mine, I respect yours...

I guess I'll just wait and see how it goes with this small 500GB hdd before investing into a few 4TB drives.

For normal world use i would always go raid5 / raidZ but not for plot generation, no offense

[SpeedDemon13]

why create a raid anyway ... e.g. for windows you can simply hardlink plot-files from different drives to your mining 'plots' folder ...

Code:

mklink /h c:\pocminer\plots\your_plot_file x:\your_plot_file

Just simplicity. Guess you can do that too.

[Sy]

JFYI i am currently generating plots, one i5-4460 with 2048 staggermant creates around 0.5 gb/min with 4 threads (measured over 30 minutes) since we are trying to put things into numbers

[SpeedDemon13]

Raid5 won't help much since you even sacrifice one disk, if you set it up just for mining go jbod or raid0...

And yes, people are expanding and still building their systems, plot generation is awfully slow.

JBOD and RAID0 have no form of parity. JBOD can be recovered compared to RAID0, but RAID5 has parity and more performance than JBOD. One disk sacrifice is better than losing all the data possible, especially on RAID0. Originally I was going to do a RAID0/JBOD, but after thinking about it, I didn't want the chance of failure. Good thing about JBOD, you can mix and match hdd's, and use their full capacity. As with RAID, you ideally want to match identical hdd's.

Your point?

I wouldn't post that if i didnt know what i am talking about but thanks for the lesson...

Why should i care about parity for some mining plots i can even recreat exact copies of IF a drive fails...one more drive is imho worth more than the slight chance that ONE drive will fail within the next days / weeks.

You have your opinion and I have mine, I respect yours...

I guess I'll just wait and see how it goes with this small 500GB hdd before investing into a few 4TB drives.

For normal world use i would always go raid5 / raidZ but not for plot generation, no offense

I am using FreeNAS ZFS in my home server.

No offense taken, your free to speak and think. It's not like your trying to kill my family, insult my religion and/or anything major like that...lol

Just annoying to recreate plots, if that needs to be done.

[Sy]

...

Solo mining is highly luck base compare to pool mining. Plus, there is no way to know the diff or whatever is like a diff for this coin. So, there is no way to calculate block per day.

Code:

/burst?requestType=getBlockchainStatus (GET) Thu Aug 14 2014 13:35:28 GMT+0200

{
	"lastBlock": "1014125104951407132",
	"lastBlockchainFeederHeight": 1201,
	"time": 293728,
	"lastBlockchainFeeder": "109.195.211.62",
	"numberOfBlocks": 1201,
	"isScanning": false,
	"cumulativeDifficulty": "67567251495709",
	"version": "1.0.0"
}

What about this 'cumulativeDifficulty' ... thought this is the diff?!

Increased by 5% within 21 blocks...

{
    "lastBlock": "16322078320396019945",
    "lastBlockchainFeederHeight": 1222,
    "time": 299736,
    "lastBlockchainFeeder": "54.167.111.103:8123",
    "numberOfBlocks": 1223,
    "isScanning": false,
    "cumulativeDifficulty": "70385126787201",
    "version": "1.0.0"
}

[ReDPoiSoN]

I want to buy some BURST,
where ?

50k for 0.4 BTC!

[cad_cdn]

so;
- after your plots are done being created, the 'run_generate.bat' will close on its own, and you will have only the wallet and 'run_mine.bat' running?

- the burst wallet screen site idle for the most part?
My last activity in the 'wallet' window was 2 days ago.


I have 3 pc's running, nothing found yet....

- also maybe a bug in the wallet webpage
does anyone notice on the Blocks menu - 'All Blocks' and 'Mined By You' does not change\refresh when either buttons are clicked?
(or is my wallet stuck)

?

thx

[jzhoulon]

so;
- after your plots are done being created, the 'run_generate.bat' will close on its own, and you will have only the wallet and 'run_mine.bat' running?

- the burst wallet screen site idle for the most part?
My last activity in the 'wallet' window was 2 days ago.


I have 3 pc's running, nothing found yet....

did you sync your system time before mining? dev said it's very important

[ReDPoiSoN]

so;
- after your plots are done being created, the 'run_generate.bat' will close on its own, and you will have only the wallet and 'run_mine.bat' running?

- the burst wallet screen site idle for the most part?
My last activity in the 'wallet' window was 2 days ago.


I have 3 pc's running, nothing found yet....

1. Right!
2. Right! But sync your Windows time!

You can mine while generating! You will see some reading error in the miner window but it will works!

[cad_cdn]

I manually sync'd.

so;
- after your plots are done being created, the 'run_generate.bat' will close on its own, and you will have only the wallet and 'run_mine.bat' running?

- the burst wallet screen site idle for the most part?
My last activity in the 'wallet' window was 2 days ago.


I have 3 pc's running, nothing found yet....

did you sync your system time before mining? dev said it's very important

[omgbossis21]

My system took around 24 hours to create around 750-800gb.  Its an i7 4770k with one of the latest Seagate 1tb drives.  I am averaging around 1 block per day currently.  Also got some coins, .1 per 10k or .25 per 30k , I want to use escrow as well.

[jzhoulon]

I manually sync'd.

so;
- after your plots are done being created, the 'run_generate.bat' will close on its own, and you will have only the wallet and 'run_mine.bat' running?

- the burst wallet screen site idle for the most part?
My last activity in the 'wallet' window was 2 days ago.


I have 3 pc's running, nothing found yet....

did you sync your system time before mining? dev said it's very important

how many total space did you use?

[saamxx]

If i just copy my 100gb plots 5 times, instead of generating them. Should be that trick work correct?

[dcct]

If i just copy my 100gb plots 5 times, instead of generating them. Should be that trick work correct?

Thats a waste of space. You'd end up getting the same results as with one 100gb plot.

[jzhoulon]

If i just copy my 100gb plots 5 times, instead of generating them. Should be that trick work correct?

then it will be considered as  only 100gb to the server, you must generate the 500g plots , or it will only do the duplicate work, 400g ==0g

[cad_cdn]

500Gb, 500Gb, 200Gb
+
50Gb
+
50Gb

nothing found on any.
still plotting the 500Gb's

I manually sync'd.

so;
- after your plots are done being created, the 'run_generate.bat' will close on its own, and you will have only the wallet and 'run_mine.bat' running?

- the burst wallet screen site idle for the most part?
My last activity in the 'wallet' window was 2 days ago.


I have 3 pc's running, nothing found yet....

did you sync your system time before mining? dev said it's very important

how many total space did you use?