Chris Pollard

I think they recommend responding within 2 seconds so you definitely don't want drives spinning down. see :- https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/FAQ#is-it-possible-to-have-a-proof-but-not-get-a-reward

Seems like small players might be better to wait for pools to be available as it sounds like you will need to use new plots for pools. Currently the network is at 2.5 exabytes and growing by a significant amount daily so small players are going to struggle to get paid at the moment.... If you have 100TB of spare storage and don't mind killing a bunch of SSD's generating the plots I think you can probably turn a profit eventually... assuming the coin price doesn't fall and the network doesn't grow too much. https://chiacalculator.com/

Hi, I'm not interested in the remote access functionality but the backup and key stuff is useful. What data does this plugin report back to "the mothership". Obviously there is a config backup but what else does the api send? Thanks, Chris

+1, I also do this, REST API for unRAID would be great if it was available.

Have a look at a new Microserver, they do them with cashback.... Looks like they are £140 with £55 cashback in the UK so $145 for a new board seems very expensive....

I'm just not so worried about DOA drives, since they go straight back to the store..... a drive that fails after 6 months when it is full of data is more of a pain to me....

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/alas-poor-stephen-is-dead-2/

Yeah certainly we don't do any form of burn in at work for new drives.

I wonder if backblaze just buy the drives and stick them into service, might explain the high failure rates somewhat. Certainly I've had way more disks DOA than I've had fail in use. Excluding mis-use

Great! Look forward to it.

Assume this is abandoned? New release breaks it anyway. After stopping the array an error appears and you can't shutdown.

OK the ram I have is registered, explains why it doesn't work. Doubt you have to use kits from that list as long as it compatible.

Is anyone running an N36L with 16gb of RAM? Is a BIOS mod required?

Funny some of my seagate drives managed to get to 50000 power on hours..... in under 2 years. buggy firmware ftw.

http://www.aquatuning.co.uk/product_info.php/info/p6594_Nexus-Double-Twin-HDD-decoupling.html Nice one. Thanks.