www.makeuseof.com
Super fast SSD's are extremely important in a Chia rig in order to plot. You use them as temp drives in order to plot. The bigger and faster the drive, the better.
I'm repurposing a Dell PowerEdge server to mine Chia. With 10x 16TB hard drives, 8x 14TB hard drives, and 4x of these SSD's, I should be able to plot very quickly:
The lumber workers are making more on unemployment than when working. Do the math.
Looking forward to you showing us the system and how it performs.Super fast SSD's are extremely important in a Chia rig in order to plot. You use them as temp drives in order to plot. The bigger and faster the drive, the better.
I'm repurposing a Dell PowerEdge server to mine Chia. With 10x 16TB hard drives, 8x 14TB hard drives, and 4x of these SSD's, I should be able to plot very quickly:
WD_BLACK™ AN1500 NVMe™ PCIe SSD Add-in-Card | Western Digital | Western Digital Store
Experience lightning fast gameplay with this bootable, plug and play add-in-card that reaches extreme velocity with minimum effort. Includes customizable RGB lighting and heatsink.shop.westerndigital.com
My server has dual 10-core Xeon's and 192GB of RAM. I have almost a quarter of a petabyte available to mine with. My 10x 16TB drives come tomorrow and my SSDs on Sunday (I already have the 8x 14TB hard drives). I'm wondering whether it makes sense to RAID these SSDs together or not. They're already RAIDed (2x2TB NVMe m.2 SSDs on a single PCI-e card) so I think I'll just run them all simultaneously and plot to 4x hard drives at the same time. I hope my PERC H730p is up to the task. I have it in JBOD mode for this.
No idea whether it's related, but my usual choices of 240Gb SSD are for the first time in short supply at Amazon UK. I was limited to only one Kingston yesterday, and can't purchase any at all today. And the estimated delivery for Crucial is up to a month.
Doh! I got my drives in today and dug out the server and the specs weren't what I remembered. As it turns out, I took out one of the processors and 1/2 the RAM to sell to another client and never got around to replacing them. This was just my pony server* so I didn't need all that power anyway. Because I only have one processor, that means I can only run 9 plots in parallel. In addition, I only have 2x PCI-e x16 slots and one x8 slot on the board that actually work because the other 5x slots are only active when it has a second processor installed! It's going to cost another $1,100 to replace the processor and RAM that I took out. Damn! I was hoping to run 19 plots in parallel across my 4x SSDs and give each plot 9GB of RAM to work with. Should I order another processor and another 96GB of RAM for $1,100?
I would start with what you have and see what you can do. I have mine built and am testing different settings. Problem is it takes 5.5 hours to see results. You want to see how long it takes to finish phase 1 and how long to finish one plot. Phase 1 is cpu taxing. After that it is just writing to ssd.
Which models? There are no shortages (of budget models, at least) on Amazon Fr and the prices are around what they have been for several months.
Which models? There are no shortages (of budget models, at least) on Amazon Fr and the prices are around what they have been for several months.
If only you could still benefit from free movement of goods.
When you get yours setup test it. You might get faster results with 4 threads per plot. I have read several different things. For me I am now doing 2 threads and testing delays so I always have 6 running up to 31%. After 31% it doesn’t use processor. So if I can time delay so when one hits 31% a new ones start I will be golden. I am getting close to finding the optimal delay.
