3x20 port SATA card.
60 hard drive
How long does it take to boot?
It takes around 4-5 minutes to boot but you must disable pcie device booting in bios. Otherwise it simply wonāt boot.
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AMD might be behind in computing, and it should have some trade-offs but, and I know this is nothing for many of you, itās also behind in price.
For example, a 3060 I might get it for ~ā¬300+, RX6600 for half of that. Itās very similar cards in terms of performance but 3060 had a much bigger market share and with that comes higher price.
I donāt care about brands, I care about cost/performance, and the RX6600 seems like a much better investment than a 3060.
So yeah, I would appreciate if AMD was supported from the start.
I used what I hadā¦reused old stuff. I always wondered why so many people waste money on something that takes 10 years to repay.
My strategy behind itā¦if Chia fails, I will offer 700 TB of porn 
One can still liquidate everything with maybe 30% losses.
I aimed for efficiency/density.
2x IBM M1015 + 2 Intel expandersā¦300$ for 48 drivesā¦USB hubs was gamble for me.
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Can $10000 builds a 1PB harvester?
main issue with AMD is drivers 
Computing is not bad if it works. Capture One RAW editorā¦Ryzen 9 5950X or RX 6800 XTā¦both same performanceā¦spitting 50+ MPx every 10s. nVidia may do it for 8s, and 2-3x higher price.
They use OpenCL though. nVidia is king of computingā¦AMD is fighting on too many fronts.
nVidia is stable choice for all CAD/CAM workstations.
AMD drivers are part of Linux, in many cases you donāt even have to install, and working pretty well on Windows too.
Thatās all fun and all, but I donāt see how double the price for 10%-15% more performance is worth it.
Not sure if you notice, but we are in a Chia forum, not on a CAD/CAM forum, no one cares about that here.
All slow steps, and right now that card is not on the list that I know of (maybe in the works)
And the title of this is āFew facts about compressed plotā So thereās the why on video cardsā¦
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If you can get a PB cheap, sure.
Max confirmed 64gb ram plotting is coming
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64GB is still too much.
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what about 3gb VRAM plotting is coming? 
Sorry not in your life time. Bite the bullet and just geta cheap 3060 12gb card
I got one on Ebay for $248.00 and making 2.74 min plots
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If you know somewhere where you can buy large capacity HDDās for something like $ 5,-- per TB, then yes. But I would say that is vey unlikely
If you do find it, let me know 
what are you had a bear or two? 
yeah ā¦ i know ā¦ iāll buy ā¦ iāll buy ā¦ but you know with every itereation itās farer and farer from regular farming dedicated home workstation. 256gb realy? 12gb of vram? should i quit my job now? joking 
and yet chia is no more for JUST users. who knows where it will lead ā¦
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If you buy a rtx 1070 8gb, re-plot your farm then sell it again will cost you $30 or so.
Same goes for a sever with 256GB of ram. Buy it, plot with it, sell it. might not cost anything at all if you do some good budget shopping.
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how about not buying anything and just replot with your current setup despite of speed of reploting
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also fine, will just take longer (and cost more electicity, GPU is more efficiĆ«nt), donāt know what size farm you have or wat plotting hardware.
But personally I donāt want to spend 15 weeks or so replotting my farm so I am going with the option above.
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lol, Iām completely with you. One could even buy another 2-3 drives instead of piles of ram and a GPUā¦ not worth it for the small farmer to pivot on this one. Iām in until the disadvantage is too great, then Iāll move on to another project + message board to stink up 
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how do you store those plots if writing to HDD takes 4-12 minutes?