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January 13, 2015, 07:03:27 PM |
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I've asked this question before. I think it comes down to personal preference and your individual situation/needs.
For instance, I mine at btcguild and have just 3 workers(currently) a S1, S2, and S3 worker, hoping to add S5 tomorrow. This works better for me because the graphs are easier to look at, but it makes it harder to figure out which miner may be having problems. If I notice a drop in hashrate I just load up mantmonitor and can identify the problem miner. Or I load up the webgui's manually to find out. Another thing you have to make sure the difficulty you choose is right for the combined miners. If you have multiple S1's and some are underclocked at say 120gh and others are near 200gh, you may want to setup different workers with different difficulties.
I think the only real benefits are that it makes the graphs nicer to look at and it's easier to change over pool info. I use the form-fill dropdowns of previous entries to change pool info faster. So it's easier for me to click on navigator.s1 in the drop down instead of navigator.s1_1, navigator.s1_2, navigator.s1_3, etc... I wasn't able to get mantmonitor's pool change ability to work well for me so I haven't really used it. If I did, I could enter navigator.s1 in my pool info and apply that to all my s1's. I don't really change pool info often so not sure why I'm concerned with this. It does get aggravating entering multiple individual worker names when you have 15+ miners.
Some people may want to view their pool stats while at work or from a mobile. It may be better for those to setup different workers so they can more easily identify which workers are having a problem.
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