The first thing I do when installing a new SSD is update the firmware. I did a talk last year on Monitoring the health of
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Best Consumer M.2 NVMe SSDs for Plotting
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Chia plotting improvements in version 1.04
Download version 1.04 at Chia.net, official release notes The Chia team is delivering a significant improvement to the plotter in version 1.04. The notable changes
Chia Cryptocurrency Farming Guide
Send feedback to @storage_jm on keybase or leave a comment here The goal of farming efficiently is to store the largest amount of data in
Chia Hard Drive Buying Guide
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Chia Plotting SSD Buying Guide
used enterprise and data center SSDs are recommended for plotting to due the higher capacity, higher performance, sustained bandwidth, and high endurance ratings required for plotting a large amount of data
NUC Small Form Factor Chia Plotting Build
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Meet the Plotting Experts Recap
Plotting Recap: Intro – Bram Cohen, Gene Hoffman, Storage_jm, @kiwihaitch, @xorinox, @farming101 6:29 – primary bottlenecks for Chia plotting, CPU, DRAM, SSD temporary storage 9:00
Build a Budget Chia Cryptocurrency Plotting Rig
The idea of this plotting build centers around 8 core desktop CPUs being the plotting sweet spot for a low end budget, in terms of price, performance, IO connectivity and DRAM requirements. The build aims at getting 8 plotting processes concurrently for a target of 2.5-3TB total amount plotted per day for a total cost of under $1000. Plot time target is between 25000-28000 seconds.