Yes I saw that. I reinstated my BLT order after that. I have 20 16tb drives at 320. Though, vendors may halve the prices next month as well.Vendors have officially changed MSRP to almost double. Seagate 16TB Expansion was $295 but is now $540. Even with no Chia purchase you won't get the drives anywhere cheap.
The official plotter is also written in C++Well looking at the github repo his changes are performant, nothing strange or terrible. I'll throw this into my build in a docker container when I get some time tomorrow and give it a whirl.
I think the big improvements and the reason you won't see this pulled into the mainline is that instead of being pure python he is going down into C++ which will require a code compilation.
Thanks for posting!
Yeah I read somewhere that they had to throw out their old idea and essentially start from scratch recently. I think you're right that we're looking at 3-6 months minimum before official pools.Which is kinda shocking as it implies that pooling is not even close to being ready if they still can make such fundamental changes at this point.
I mean, it was to be expected given their "we are only naming phases" scheme, but that tells me we are looking at 3 to 6 months before pooling will be publicly available
Microcenter has WD external enclosure 8TB for $150I have 5tb 2.5" usb SMR drives. Happy to sell them $110 + shipping. They are from Costco and unopened. I have close to 10 of them.
I have also 8tb 3.5“ SMR drives . I have 3 of them left but not sure if I want to sell them at $160 a piece.
I put all of them on Craigslist in any case and there are no buyers. I think rush is over.
If chia prices crash, there may be a big dump on Hard drives from miners. Some miners will hold on and hope that prices will recover and some miners will try to quit and cut their losses. We will see. Chia is right now in deep trouble due to pooling issues.
Nope. I got an Ironwolf Pro in my Backup plus and had 2 Baracudda's in the Desktop Backup units I bought (none of these were 16TB though).BTW, does all 16tb USB seagate drives comes exos drives in them?
There's no 16TB Barracuda, how is it possible to get 2 barracudas from 16TB externals?Nope. I got an Ironwolf Pro in my Backup plus and had 2 Baracudda's in the Desktop Backup units I bought.
Seems so. For now all 16TBs are Exos, and most of the 14TBs are Exos too.BTW, does all 16tb USB seagate drives comes exos drives in them?
only seen exos in the expansion 16tb onesNope. I got an Ironwolf Pro in my Backup plus and had 2 Baracudda's in the Desktop Backup units I bought.
At least they all came with Seagate drives so that you can rest assured no matter what model they are, they are definitely garbage.Nope. I got an Ironwolf Pro in my Backup plus and had 2 Baracudda's in the Desktop Backup units I bought.
I've never heard anyone saying Seagate Exos lines are garbage.At least they all came with Seagate drives so that you can rest assured no matter what model they are, they are definitely garbage.
I take that garbage over wd hdds ._.At least they all came with Seagate drives so that you can rest assured no matter what model they are, they are definitely garbage.
Maybe they're making some model thats not trash but you know what they say, fool me once, fool me twice.I've never heard anyone saying Seagate Exos lines are garbage.
I love selling Seagate drives on ebay -- there's always someone dumb enough to buy them.I take that garbage over wd hdds ._.
I guess you are using full SSD now because Seagate, WD, HGST(IBM) all made garbage drives before.Maybe they're making some model thats not trash but you know what they say, fool me once, fool me twice.
Over the course of two decades, whenever I've said "maybe I should try the newest Seagate drives, I hear they've made lots of improvement over the trash they used to sell", I've always come to regret it very strongly.
HGST is actually owned by WD now, and the drives are WDs under the hood. The other manufacturer besides WD and Seagate who makes drives themselves instead of just relabeling is Toshiba.I guess you are using full SSD now because Seagate, WD, HGST(IBM) all made garbage drives before.
Yep missed the 16TB part. Corrected in my reply.There's no 16TB Barracuda, how is it possible to get 2 barracudas from 16TB externals?
So out of interest, who do you favor as a manufacturer ?. Any particular reason ?.At least they all came with Seagate drives so that you can rest assured no matter what model they are, they are definitely garbage.
HGST has been extremely reliable for me. WD has been mostly adequate depending on which model you get (WD Blue = trash, Black and Raid Edition have always been good)Yep missed the 16TB part. Corrected in my reply.
So out of interest, who do you favor as a manufacturer ?. Any particular reason ?.
Not that I particually like Seagate, had a number of problems with past drives of theirs but also go hit with WD green issues.
I now tend to stick to HGST enterprise drives where possible which has generally worked out well for my use cases at home.