Great guide for getting started with Chia plotting - NUC Small Form Factor Chia Plotting Build

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I kinda don’t agree with this guide. I think you should have both drive slots filled, but plot on the OS drive as well – so you are maximizing disk throughput!

On top of that we all should have mentioned the 40gbps thunderbolt 3 port… no contest vs the 6gbps sata port…

Testing the speed of plotting on NVME vs HDD

I realized … yet again … I am a complete dumbass. Guess what I should be using instead of the 6gbps SATA port? The 40gbps Thunderbolt 3 port! This baby, right here: [image] Yeah, that was really stupid of me. SSDs aren’t that much slower, but good lord – a quality NVME drive connected via Thunderbolt 3 is pretty much full bandwidth! Like having a second M.2 PCIe 4.0 port on the motherboard! I’ve recalibrated my two NUC10i7FNH plotters so they are both using the TB3 port …

That doubles your I/O bandwidth, easy, and you have enough CPU where that matters @ 6c/12t.