THE CHIA FARM

[NateS]

I also note, in CLI mode, the max size of a temporary plot file, doesn't exceed 239GB. Temporary plot files generated on the system running the GUI, always hit 256GB.

That's just a difference in how they display them. 239GB == 256GiB

The GUI isn't ideal for plotting because it doesn't give you very fine grained control over scheduling the plot jobs, but it's just calling the CLI version itself, so the code used to create the plots is identical. Any slowdown in plotting is therefore due to the overhead of running the GUI itself (including the full node process, which does take a fair amount of resources to stay in sync).

 

[Marsh]

Finally, got the system tuned. Still need more experiment , I just want to finish plotting before tweaking again

I am running 3 system
Each system has E5-4667 v3 (16c/32T) $85 CPU , 128gb ram ( 64 gb is needed, extra 64gb for file buffer io )
3 x Fusion-io iodrive2 SSD , 3 SSD for plot temp storage , then transfer to a harvester machine.

Each system is doing 38 plots a day, I am filling a 10TB drive a day
Question to myself, how much HD drive do I want to commit to Chia farming?

Plots Completed Yesterday: 38
Plots Completed Today: 22

Next log check at 2021-05-21 17:04:31

temp /mnt/fio1/temp 1.06TiB 1.50TiB 70.7% ?
temp /mnt/fio2/temp 0.84TiB 1.50TiB 56.3% ?
temp /mnt/fio3/temp 0.63TiB 1.50TiB 42.1% ?
dest /mnt/stage1/chiaplot 0.00TiB 0.54TiB 0.0% ?
dest /mnt/stage2/chiaplot 0.30TiB 0.73TiB 40.9% ?
dest /mnt/stage3/chiaplot 0.00TiB 0.54TiB 1.0% ?

CPU Usage: 59.6%
RAM Usage: 34.54/125.84GiB(28.4%)

max 16 plot jobs

 

[Bert]

The more you put the more you will get a chance to win. I have more than 120tb and so far I got nothing. The net space is growing too fast so if you are lucky you will win something early and if you are not, you will not win and netspace keeps on growing and make your chance to win to nothing. Noone knows but I can easily see netspace hitting to 50 exabyte with these prices. After that cost of plotting may become higher than the winning.

If you already have the space, I would fill all the space up since power cost is a small price but at this point buying more hard drive looks very risky.

 

[msg7086]

Bet your luck. I have a 48TB server that won 3 rewards in 2 days this week. Completely unbelievable. But some other servers are not getting any rewards yet.

 

[tinfoil3d]

Bet your luck. I have a 48TB server that won 3 rewards in 2 days this week. Completely unbelievable. But some other servers are not getting any rewards yet.

That's how much in us dollars?

 

[msg7086]

That's how much in us dollars?

3 rewards were $9600 last week, and are $4800 today.

 

[tinfoil3d]

Well, don't hodl because this is going downhill for solo. Is it even poolable?

 

[msg7086]

I'm gonna hold them for now. Already got my investment back so I don't care much about the price now (Big thanks to T_Minus).

It's poolable and pool is planned but not ready yet. I'm at a few hundred TBs now so I'm not pooling any time soon, but it's possible if you are a small solo miner.

 

[Bert]

I'm gonna hold them for now. Already got my investment back so I don't care much about the price now (Big thanks to T_Minus).

It's poolable and pool is planned but not ready yet. I'm at a few hundred TBs now so I'm not pooling any time soon, but it's possible if you are a small solo miner.

What is your plan for pools? Do you plan to join one? I want to be get on the pool stuff asap as I find solo pretty risky. I want to see some cash flow to justify my expenses on the hard disks.

 

[msg7086]

I don't really want to replot my 5500 plots, so I'll just quietly solo farming for a long while. If you decide to stay low footprint, you probably should join pools asap.

 

[Bert]

I don't really want to replot my 5500 plots, so I'll just quietly solo farming for a long while. If you decide to stay low footprint, you probably should join pools asap.

I remember you sold 5 chia or something like that. What kind of hardware can generate and hold 5500 plots and only cost $6000?

 

[Rand__]

What kind of hardware can generate and hold 5500 plots and only cost $6000?

I'd like one too please

 

[msg7086]

I remember you sold 5 chia or something like that. What kind of hardware can generate and hold 5500 plots and only cost $6000?

I cooperated with another guy (so my income shares to him too). I don't want to share much information about him and the plotting config, but as for farming I have a few drives locally but I also rent some servers with large drives. I'm paying about $750 a month renting servers, apart from the $6k local initial cost. The theory is if I'm earning more than $750 I'm profiting by renting, but if the return tanks I can just cancel the service and go back to low monthly cost local farming.

My local capacity is pretty small, only about 300TB-ish, but is still large enough to consistently generate income.

I was wondering if there are any good tutorials on building a DIY NAS, but I can't find much. I just got a Meshify 2 series chassis paired with a Seasonic Platinum 750W power supply (under promotion now), and ordered some wires and SATA plugs, and hopefully will finish my build by next week.

 

[Rand__]

I was wondering if there are any good tutorials on building a DIY NAS, but I can't find much. I just got a Meshify 2 series chassis paired with a Seasonic Platinum 750W power supply (under promotion now), and ordered some wires and SATA plugs, and hopefully will finish my build by next week.

Hundreds - the difficulty is defining your requirements properly so you can pick the matching OS

 

[msg7086]

Hundreds - the difficulty is defining your requirements properly so you can pick the matching OS

DIY NAS in the sense of hardware. For OS I'll be using Debian for sure.

I was looking for a solution where I need to fit 12+ drives in a chassis, good airflow for drives but no pulling-style fan wall (like rackmount), relatively quiet, be affordable, and relatively compact. I ended up going Meshify 2 (equivalent to Define 7) as I couldn't find other good options. I like this chassis after getting hands on it, but I'd still love to know other options.

Also PSUs. I'm currently using a Seasonic Gold 650W and pretty happy, so I went to Seasonic but would love to know other good options.

 

[Rand__]

I'd just look at the big NAS systems (Freenas, Unraid, OMV, maybe XPEnology) and their build recommendations or user build descriptions - that should give you plenty of HW ideas

 

[i386]

https://www.servethehome.com/

 

[gb00s]

Going to be 'out of space' today with Chia update 1.1.6 lowering the temp file size to max 207 GiB and increasing CPU usage between 63-80% now. Plotting time reduced by 40-50min per plot

If 'out-of-space' ... what's next? Still ZERO ...

 

[ari2asem]

a noob question: is it possible to have tmp- files on hdd when i am plotting ?
so, one big hdd (10 TB) for tmp-files during plot. after then plotting finished removing to another big hdd for farming.

is this possible to configure under windows 10 ??

because i don't have any big and enterprise ssd for tmp-files during the plot

 

[Rand__]

If 'out-of-space' ... what's next? Still ZERO ...

Farm and hope? With >1000 plots you should be around 20 days or less for at least a single win, so given that you've farmed for a while already statistically speaking it shouldn't take so long any more