I'm trying to be less of an a$$hole, but damn, the people here piss me off so much, what with Linux-only crap and releasing half-assed miners that you have to be a damn coding engineer to finish and get mining for you.
Want to code somwething useful? Code a program that will use GPUs to do the plotting. I have a couple 280X's sitting around doing nothing.
I have 4 laptop drives spanned into a 605 GB volume, with a 1 to 2457300 plot size. The AMD FX-4130 3.8 GHZ cpu took 2-1/2 days to plot that, it just finished this morning. Now it's mining for me solo.
I will join a pool once V2 comes out, I am trying to find cheap deals on hard drives right now. I know a place that sells hard drives, I was trying to talk them into taking a 1 ounce gold bar I have in exchange for drives, but they stubbornly want cash or credit card only.
Im glad your trying harder. It will get you a ton more help from the community.
I am 99% sure someone is working on windows implemenattions. You just have to be patient.
One thing you should realize is that the harder it is to setup the harder it is for the masses to mine and the better it is for you if you get it right. You will get far more coins that way.
We are here to help you. So if you ask nicely I am sure we can get things sorted out.
BTW your GPU's may never help write plots. Disk speeds are limited and just because a GPU can write the data really fast doesn't mean the disks can keep up.
Maybe with SSDs but 20 TB of SSD would cost WAY to much.
i dont know how most people are storing their plots but my linux based storage can take about 100 mb/s from a plotting node over network from up to 8 nodes simultanously.
if someone runs a single large 4 tb usb3 disk it should be filled similar fast within 12 hours if plot content is supplied in time.
the main question for me is why everyone expects a mining preperation process to be fast and simple initiated by a clicking solution?
burst is not a clonecoin which disappears a few weeks after it has been released.
i understand that many people are focused on windows and have read a linux version is twice as fast.
even if you generate the plots faster you have the same mining result after the plots have been created.
the mining itself has the same speed. we speak only about a few days time difference that it takes to fillup a large storage device if you dont have linux skills.
look at it like you have a open preorder for a asic miner which already partially mines for you
the issue i see with windows is that ntfs only supports 2tb volumes and if someone supplies a gpu miner for windows people start to cry they cant partition their usb3 disk into one volume.
if a c based miner has options to configure threads with options for serial and parallel io on the filesystem you may use windows based systems to run multi terrabyte usb3 based mining farms if you want to and have the skills for it.
i still do this on linux without having any os related issues.
the question is why you would invest resources into the development of a technology which already exists and is free.
windows comes only in place when you speak about the masses who have one or two tb free harddrive space and want to do something with it. these people need a one-click solution with visual guis and graphical feedback that their miner does something.
whoever wants to invest money to gain money out of it has at the moment only one option.
to learn how to do it or pay someone to do it.
okay, also one may simply buy mined coins. they are still affordable (if someone reads this a few month: today you could buy almost 250k for less than 300 satoshi each!).
