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.

Is that X-swing still available anywhere? All the links in the avforums thread seem to be dead or out of stock.

My server now seems to be running smoothly with 2gb of RAM rather than 1gb.

Finally got around to buying keys and playing with this. So far I'm not having much luck. I'm thinking 1gb isn't enough ram for 3tb disks. Finder, explorer, teracopy and even mc locally all die horribly trying to manipulate files. There are no hints to any issue in the syslog so I'm pretty much guessing until the parity check finishes but the issue seems to be limited to the 3tb drive I have in there. Smart reports are also clean.

Hmm, 2.5" 2tb drives would be nice. Then you could stick 4 in the top slot. Guess we are some way off those yet however. One of mine is humming away preclearing some 3tb drives. Build quality is pretty good as you would expect from HP. Yet to decide what to do with the "spare" one I bought

Just ordered a couple of these to have a play with

I have 2000 movies and 6000 TV Episodes on my system and cache_dirs constantly spins up drives with the default settings. 6gb of RAM.

Graphs are funny. Choice is either good cooling or low noise. Both isn't an option.

Another thing to add to this thread for folks in the UK.... Norco cases are available from X-Case http://www.xcase.co.uk

They change their deals everyday the same as Scan, I agree that scan are cheaper at the moment but Aria are often cheaper than scan. A Couple of weeks ago I bought 2x WD20EARS for £105 from Scan, at the time Aria were cheaper for single drives and scan were cheaper for 2. Just depends on what deals are on what site.

Add Aria too. They are more often that not cheaper than Scan. Check the super specials for the best prices, sometimes with free delivery. EDIT : Currently playing with some scripts and made this http://www.smokingcures.com/hdd/ to help me work out the best deal on a few UK suppliers websites..