Burstcoin HDD mining - The future of mining?

Silver_Pharaoh · Sep 18, 2014

Luis_GT said:
Yep, I used that very same guide when I first set it up

Huh.
Maybe post on the ANN thread then...

torin3 · Sep 29, 2014

Well, I cashed out a few XMR and got a refurbed WD Green 2TB drive. I think I can clear up about another TB on my main machine. Also trying to sell off some hardware to get a 4 TB drive. I figure even if it doesn't work out, I should be able to set up a nice NAS device when I'm done.

torin3 · Oct 2, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
Yep, I messed that up. Meant to type 200000 = 50Gb.

Anyway, you can mine this while GPU mining it seems yes.
According to the calc, 2Tb is ~0.003 BTC/day

So yeah pretty good.

I wish I had more space, I'd only be able to allocate 1.2 TB, and the profitability has dropped for 0.003/day to ~0.002 BTC/day If i were to mine

I got it started last night. The plotter is running, but it is slow. I went with 9x200GB for 1.8TB since I'm now sure which version of counting they went with. That gives me and ending number of 7200000. I'm hoping to get another 3-4 TB in the next day or two if I can sell my hardware.

For running multiple drives, just copy the miner files to the new drive and run the plotter / miner from that drive as well?

Silver_Pharaoh · Oct 2, 2014

torin3 said:
I got it started last night. The plotter is running, but it is slow. I went with 9x200GB for 1.8TB since I'm now sure which version of counting they went with. That gives me and ending number of 7200000. I'm hoping to get another 3-4 TB in the next day or two if I can sell my hardware.

For running multiple drives, just copy the miner files to the new drive and run the plotter / miner from that drive as well?

I dunno TBH... You're further into Burstcoin than me

Sorry

torin3 · Oct 2, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
I dunno TBH... You're further into Burstcoin than me
Sorry

Ughh. I must have done something wrong. It is about 24 hours and I've only plotted about 1/5th of a 2TB drive.

Silver_Pharaoh · Oct 3, 2014

torin3 said:
Ughh. I must have done something wrong. It is about 24 hours and I've only plotted about 1/5th of a 2TB drive.

Got some other HDD intense program running too?
EDIT: Why not just make one big fat RAID0 with the extra drives?

I would think it would say time and make life easier because it's "just one big drive" to Windows and to the plotting program eh?

torin3 · Oct 3, 2014

Faster plotter here. Getting about 2700 nonces/minute using it:

https://burstforum.com/index.php?threads/c-plotter-java-alternative-for-windows.56/

I'm also switching to just plotting 200GB at a time, rather than trying to do it all in one go. Which means I am starting over, but I should still get done faster. Also, once I've got the first plot file done, if I'm understanding it correctly, I can start pool mining.

As to the raid0, I'm only on one drive at the moment.

torin3 · Oct 6, 2014

Well, I got the 2 TB drive plotted in just over a day with the fast plotting program. I also seem to be doing well on the payouts for the size.

I was thinking about getting this drive : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ..._mmc=EMC-GD100614-_-index-_-Item-_-22-178-354

Seagate 4TB external for $120 shipped. Rates 4 eggs. I figure could pop it out of the case and plot it, then put it back in and let it run over the USB cable.

Any thoughts or suggestions on this idea?

Silver_Pharaoh · Oct 6, 2014

I don't see the need to remove the drive in the first place, unless Windows or the plotter can't "see" the whole drive.

Any estimates on the payout for your 2TB plot?
Just me being curious, and wondering if the profit calc is accurate.

torin3 · Oct 7, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
I don't see the need to remove the drive in the first place, unless Windows or the plotter can't "see" the whole drive.

Any estimates on the payout for your 2TB plot?
Just me being curious, and wondering if the profit calc is accurate.

Here is my transaction log, realize I started out with about 400GB and worked my way up to my current 3TB:

Code:

TX 14663206277834478514
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BURST-Z8R6-L9N2-CD87-3NXWV ◀ 
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+
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+
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torin3 · Oct 7, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
I don't see the need to remove the drive in the first place, unless Windows or the plotter can't "see" the whole drive.

Well, looks like I'm going to have to set up a way to restart the miner. Seems like it crashes every morning after I go to work.

Also, I wasn't sure how fast USB3.0 was, but I see that it is comparable with SATA 3, so not a real need to pop the case and plug it in directly as a SATA drive.

Silver_Pharaoh · Oct 7, 2014

torin3 said:
Well, looks like I'm going to have to set up a way to restart the miner. Seems like it crashes every morning after I go to work.

Also, I wasn't sure how fast USB3.0 was, but I see that it is comparable with SATA 3, so not a real need to pop the case and plug it in directly as a SATA drive.

I got ya covered - trust me

Code:

echo Run miner for 45 Mins... 
TIMEOUT /T 2700 /NOBREAK
taskkill /F /IM miner_name.exe
start /min miner_batch.bat
start /min Run_Miner_Timer.bat
exit

Name that Run_Miner_Timer.bat and run it.
Good to go.

Now, I imagine this will work as well especially if you have CGWatcher set to "Ensure Miner stays running":
(Also cleaner code, but this one won't auto-minimize the batch windows)

Code:

:loop
echo Run miner for 45 Mins... 
TIMEOUT /T 2700 /NOBREAK
taskkill /F /IM sgminer.exe
goto loop

exit

Just shove the above into a .bat file and run it :thup:

torin3 · Oct 7, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
I got ya covered - trust me

Code:

echo Run miner for 45 Mins... TIMEOUT /T 2700 /NOBREAK taskkill /F /IM miner_name.exe start /min miner_batch.bat start /min Run_Miner_Timer.bat exit

Name that Run_Miner_Timer.bat and run it.
Good to go.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the line:

start /min miner_batch.bat

be

start /min miner_name.exe

?

As I understand the logic, with the change it is:
Start the batch file
wait 2700 seconds
Kill the miner
start the miner
restart the batch file for a full loop.

Also, were the payout amounts useful? I can highlight the amounts in red for transfers out and green for payments in.

Edit: 4TB drive arrives tomorrow.

Silver_Pharaoh · Oct 8, 2014

torin3 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the line:

start /min miner_batch.bat

be

start /min miner_name.exe

?

As I understand the logic, with the change it is:
Start the batch file
wait 2700 seconds
Kill the miner
start the miner
restart the batch file for a full loop.

Also, were the payout amounts useful? I can highlight the amounts in red for transfers out and green for payments in.

Edit: 4TB drive arrives tomorrow.

I wasn't able to get that working like that because you'd need to specify the arguments for the miner - pool user name password, intensity etc. Making a batch file with those settings and launching that was easier.

also, the :loop and goto loop in the 2nd code snippit would remove the need to call the batch file again for a loop.

EDIT 5?: This works perfectly:

Code:

:loop
echo Run miner for 45 Mins... 
TIMEOUT /T 2700
taskkill /F /IM sgminer.exe
cd C:\Users\Silver_Pharaoh\Desktop\Prime_Miner\Radeon\sph-sgminer_x11mod_b2\

start /min sgminer.exe -k x11mod -o stratum+tcp://pool.x-children.org:5555 -u CP25pRPzFFjwe9SfgPdBphUf5ke8YDg2Pn -p x -d 1 -g 2 -I 16 -w 128 --thread-concurrency 8192 --api-listen --api-allow 127.0.0.1 --api-port 4028

goto loop

Okay, you must cd to where the miner.exe is stored for this to work. (The code does this for you)
Just change the path of the miner and setup your username pass and pool info.

torin3 · Oct 9, 2014

Silver_Pharaoh said:
I wasn't able to get that working like that because you'd need to specify the arguments for the miner - pool user name password, intensity etc. Making a batch file with those settings and launching that was easier.

Ok. The minter I'm using for the pool doesn't need a batch. It just uses a config file. Here is mine:

Code:

 {
    "poolUrl" : "burst-pool.cryptoport.io",
    "submissionMaxDelay" : 30,
    "submissionMaxRetry" : 3,
    "socketTimeout" : 60,
    "maxBufferSizeMB" : 64,
    "plots" : 
    [
    	"D:\\plots",
    	"E:\\miner\\plots"
	]
 }

That is it. It has the account number as part of the name of the plot files, so I don't need anything else in it. And the wallet handles the mapping to the pool.

The version I posed is working great for me, thank you!

And I forgot to take home the 4TB drive last night. :bang head

Also the pool had no payouts to me for over 16 hours, so I switched to their US pool. Been getting payouts since then. And even though in their instructions, it says you can close your wallet, you seem to need the back end up and running for things to work.

Nice thing is you can just map in your plots folders on multiple drives into the miner.conf file and it reads them all. I should be up to 7TB by the end of the weekend.

Silver_Pharaoh · Oct 9, 2014

Holy cow! 7TB is huge :drool:

TazExtreme3 · Oct 9, 2014

Could someone send me some burst to get started? The faucets don't seem to be working for me. Do I need to wait for the first plot to be done?

BURST-KNSG-4AZX-G32H-3ZNMB

torin3 · Oct 9, 2014

Sent you some.

No you don't have to wait for the plot to be done, it will mine with what you have plotted up to that point. You may get some read errors until the plotting is done, but it won't screw anything up. I'm currently plotting a 4TB drive and it is mining from the plot file.

Hope that helps.

TazExtreme3 · Oct 10, 2014

Sent it back. Thanks.

petteyg359 · Oct 10, 2014

Sounds like this is just asking for people to use a bunch of those USB drives that were being sold a few years ago with circular buffers so that the 256MB drive reported 2 GB of space...

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