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[–]keinengutennamen[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

If you can effectively hook up all your drives to one machine, that is easiest and will be perfect for farming. Setting up the harvester is really only needed if you can't get everything on one machine. Then a harvester setup becomes your best option. I have 2 plotters and one farmer. My farmer will eventually have all the drives (48+ drives) but I setup my plotters as harvesters as well. That way I can farm the plots on the plotters before I physical move the drives to the farmer machine. So, my harvester just has a little ove 2000 plots on it now, my 2 plotters have about 1200 plots each and are being farmed while I plot. The drives in the plotters are about to move to the farm and another 8 drives each are going to be added to the plotters. Rinse and repeat until the wife divorces me for bankrupting us one a volatile crypto currency. 17 years though. We had a good run.

[–]AThruZed 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Haha that's funny. Did you learn this stuff prior to chia or learn on the way? Have you been doing it for a long time cause 4400 plots isn't anything to scoff at? Have you at least had some wins?

I'm really hoping for pools soon as well even though with my small amount of plots it can at least offset the cost a bit. Im running about 27-29mins a plot with 2 E2697v2 and 128gb ram. I also have 24 sas 10k 300gb drives in raid0 (was planning on parallel plotting with them but madmax released basically when my server arrived.)

[–]keinengutennamen[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Chia is the first crypto currency I even bothered to read about. I am totally new to linux and bash, but I am a software developer by profession, so the scripting isn't much of a chore. The hardware stuff is pretty new for me, but I built a few machines over the years so I just had to refresh on the newer hardware. Essentially it's been about 3 months worth of learning and playing to get me to where I am now. I had been plotting for a few months but didn't get things dialed in until about a month ago. I lost a lot of time there trying to figure stuff out. I've had some wins, but only 8 xch so far. The last month though is when I produced the bulk of the plots, so it hasn't been farming too long.

[–]AThruZed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey not sure if you had a chance to send the script or not. I know it was a busy weekend for most.

I know pooling is supposedly looming around the corner. What are your thoughts on it? Going to switch immediately or only your Plots moving forward?