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
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GPU Plotting Build Guide
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
Best NVMe for chia plotting on budget build
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
Benchmark drives with fio in Linux
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;
Chia optimized plotting drives, are they worth the cost?
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
Fill a 14TB hard drive per day! Chia Plotting on the beast
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
Chia Plotting Server Build – Dell R740xd with WD enterprise drives
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
Plotman – Automate and Manage Chia Plotting
Guest post by Eric Altendorf, author of plotman What is Plotman? Plotman is a tool for managing Chia plotting operations. It allows you to configure
The beginners’ guide to farming Chia Coin on Windows.
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
Updating firmware on Intel SSDs
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