5T it is Ok or obsolete?

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Hi

5T it is Ok or obsolete ?

I’m doing tests right now with a raspberry pi + 1T ssd (DB) + 5T plotting …
when I add the 5T for add PloT after 2 hours I have this on my logs

Process ID is: 1816

Starting phase 1/4: Forward Propagation into tmp files… Fri Feb 10 11:11:34 2023
Computing table 1
Progress update: 0.01
F1 complete, time: 1495.04 seconds. CPU (41.99%) Fri Feb 10 11:36:29 2023
Computing table 2
Progress update: 0.06
Bucket 0 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 0.563GiB, qs min: 0.281GiB.
Bucket 1 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 0.563GiB, qs min: 0.281GiB.
Bucket 2 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 0.563GiB, qs min: 0.281GiB.
Bucket 3 uniform sort. Ram: 3.251GiB, u_sort min: 1.125GiB, qs min: 0.281GiB.

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Those 3/4/5TB 2.5" drives aren’t a crowd favorite. Pretty slow, shingled instead of CMR… but once plotted, it’s storage all the same. I have heard of some cases where a good powered USB hub is needed if you run into problems.

Also you’re only on bucket 3 after 2 hours, so you might want to plot on something else and just use the Pi to farm. It’s a neat experiment in any case.

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I have ST5000LM000 Seagate 5-TB 5.4K 2.5 6G SATA 3,5"
and I confess that I don’t understand what you mean (sorry) with so you might want to plot on something else and just use the Pi to farm as you can see I am new :frowning:

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Your Pi is not powerful enough to create the plot file in a reasonable amount of time. But it is enough to farm the plot file once it is created. What is being suggest is: create plot files with another computer, instead of your Pi.

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