Yay! Just when I thought it would take another month or so for my small farm to win I was surprised to find another 2xch today.
An encouragement to small farmers like me with just 369 plots!
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Wow, that is lucky, next win in X years time.
@BadgerStork Why is plot loading awful?
What type of interface(s) does it have, and which interface are you using?
Price?
eSata 2 wires spilt out to 8 drives in the box somewhere
It takes minutes to read the plots in where usb was 10 seconds or so
£111 about $130
$130 for eight bays is a bargain (assuming it is a new unit).
I would like to read more about that enclosure. Neither the manufacturer nor the model is on the front.
Please provide a link to the site from where you made the purchase, or any other site that offers details.
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Have you tried a different E-sata card?
Tried 2 cards
One only worked pcie v1 and the other is this one in use.
It works Ok for farming, just the load up it slow
I think it is the same
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/edgestore-das801t-8xbay-jbod-raid-0-1-5-and-10-das-enclosure-via-esata-(io-card-included)
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I use this to load up my plots to a drive:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MYU0EAU/
The other end plugs into one of my USB 3.x ports.
I get ~250 MB/s, and the speed diminishes as the drive fills (presumably due to the nature of the realestate diminishing, per platter rotation, towards the inner portions of the platters).
Once a drive is full, I then insert it into my 8-bay enclosure.
480 plots per day 
~ 3min GPU bladebit_cuda compressed plots C0-C9
~ 15 sec copy to temp storage
~ 4m 30s copy to HDD from temp storage
With that plotting speed, you need only 3 sas drives to keep up with plotting production throughput.
Chassis: Dell T620 12 Bay LFF
Processors: 2x (2.80GHz) 10-Core Intel Xeon E5-2680V2
Memory (RAM): 768GB (24x32GB) DDR3 PC3 - 1066Mhz
GPU: RTX 2080 Super
OS: Proxmox 7.4 → Ubuntu 22.04
Using 400GB of Ram as temp storage to plow from.
Turns out ssd was a bottleneck because of proxmox virtIO layer.
GPU is chilling under 50% load, I’m using SAS drives so each has a writing speed of about 200-250 MB/s
Except for GPU and HDD’s plotting server cost me like 700$.
While plotting power consumption about 400W - 430W with 12 drives.
I would say it damn good budget setup
Happy plotting!
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I have the same. No problems so far.
They’re branded as CFI in my region.
I’ve sold 6 of them half a year ago for $60 each and it was PITA to do so because no one needed them. Also it requires a PCI-E x1 port for each enclosure which adds trouble.
Hello please share your code IAM interestong ,IAM not a développer
Thanks
Hello you are ingenious ,i need advice and tips ,m’y hardware :
2 x ml350g9 ,ram 512GB, 2* gpu 3090 ,2418tb,22699v4
Jbod 24 HDD with 18TB
Network 10GB
I have ,lot of gpu,ram,nvme,hdd …i need to have an installation with lower consuption
And optimisation.
Tks
不错啊 你这是用阵列卡连吗 还是都是sata
Is each server have 512gb of ram?
yes each server ram 512GB, 2* gpu 3090 ,2418tb,2 2699v4
Jbod 24 HDD with 18TB
Network 10GB
In that case I’ve would arrange it as follows:
ServerA - plotter
ServerB - Temp storage, distribution machine
I’ve assumed you are gonna plot C7 plots using bladebit cuda
ServerA has x1-3090 and 2 instances of cuda plotter(or x2-GPU with 1 instance of plotter for each GPU), that’s will produce x2 - 79GiB plots in less than 3 min.
You will be offloading those plots via 10G to ServerB, whole RAM of server B will be ramdisk.
you should be just fine to plowing up to 6 SAS drives simultaneously
6*79GiB = 474 ~ 510GB will be used as ramdisk and leave 2GB for OS needs.
At full speed, your drives should consume 1 plot per 4m 30sec if slower its may break.
But I see this setup as very unstable because ~30-sec delay of hard drive writes speed, will break plotters because they will run out of space in ramdisk. I would rather use just 1 GPU with 1 instance of the plotter, in that case, you will have twice the amount of ramdisk (~12 min) to allow things to sort out and also lower power consumption during plotting. In the end, you will have at least 480 plots per day which is ~40.7TB. In 11 days you will have all your drives filled
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