Overview I use Ubuntu server for running Chia on all of my farmers and harvesters, and I don’t have a need or desire to run the Chia GUI. A dashboard can help you see the status and health of your farm at a glance. My go-to combination for monitoring general system information, like CPU usage,…
This is a guest post by the folks at Chia Tracker, you can reach out to Chris on Keybase as @cmmarslender or [email protected] for help! We’re excited to announce the launch of Chia Tracker, the easiest way to track your Chia transactions, access your balances, and ensure you have exactly what you need to account…
What is this GPU plotting everyone is talking about? Chia has released the alpha of Bladebit CUDA. The alpha is currently being supported in the Chia beta program, through Keybase. The alpha requires the following supported system configurations Chia released the new roadmap with GPU plotting in the GUI and Chia client natively, as well…
Best Data Center SSD for Budget Chia Plotting Summary, TL;DR Buy a 1.6 or 2TB data center NVMe SSD for plotting, which can be found used for around $200. These will perform as well or better in plotting as a high-end consumer M.2 NVMe, and have 3-10x the endurance (which we need for plotting). Some…
Fio (flexible io tester) is what the pros and storage industry insiders use to benchmark drives in Linux. Fio is insanely powerful, confusing, and detailed; it can perform just about any sort of io generation one can think of. I’m going to give a few quick examples of how you can use it to run…
Summary The LX3030 is very good for Chia plotting, almost able to max out a 32 core AMD Threadripper performance with madMAx. The 1TB will likely be the sweet spot, priced under a high-end data center SSD and easy availability and compatibility because of the M.2 form factor. LX2030 is perfect for temp 1 when…
AMD Threadripper and Intel Optane PCIe 4.0, Using MadMAx and plotman to automate One of the community members who I have spent a decent amount of time chatting with over the past few months asked me if I knew anyone who wanted to buy some of his plotting equipment. I’ve been wanting to test out…
It all starts with the plotman. As many of you know, Eric was the one that convinced me to build the original NUC. He messaged me the other day about a new server on eBay, asking me if I thought it was a good deal. I have worked with Dell over the years (they have…
Beginners Guide to Farming Chia in Windows Rev 2.0, by JM Hands. This guide is written to Chia version 1.3, and a beta version was used in the video. Prepare your system for farming Install Chia Get xch from the faucet Create plotnft (this will allow you to join a pool) Plot with madMAx chia-plotter…
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 NVMe SSDs, and I talked a lot of the fact that firmware bugs make up the majority of SSD failures. Luckily, Intel makes it very easy to update the firmware…
