Hello everyone,
I’ve got two Gigabyte NVMe M2 drives. “512GB” each. (GIGABYTE GP-GSM2NE3512GNTD)
Of course the real storage capacity is 476.92 GB each, which leads to the limitation of being able to only plot one plot at a time in each.
So I’ve thought of making a stripe volume with them (953 GB) and use it to plot 3 at a time.
Can anyone think of any “don’ts”, drawbacks or problems with that setup?
Cheers,
Diego.-
No guarantees but should work, plenty of people using RAID0 volumes.
Just make sure it’s using software RAID (from the OS) and you should be fine!
Thanks guys.
I made the striped volume (Soft raid0 on Win10) and started a test last night. Started 3 parallel plots on 3 different PS processes to monitor, with “.\chia.exe plots create -k 32 -b 8196 -u 128 -r 2”
The rig has a i7 with 6 cores @3.40 Ghz, and 32 GB of DDR4 RAM.
The 3 plots took around 9 hours to complete. (~33,000 seconds)
So that would come down to “3 hours per plot” if I was doing one at a time. Not bad I believe?
PS: I have to point out that the machine was not dedicated to plotting all the time. I was using it for the first 3 hours for other tasks, so the CPU was not fully dedicated. I even played some games for a while 
Cheers!
D.-