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ohager edited this page May 21, 2018 · 5 revisions

Move Plot

Since Version 0.5 it is possible to plot on one drive or even computer and move the file to another drive/computer. This is quite useful if you have, for example an SSD, but your target disk is a slower HDD (or even an SMR drive). Or you might have an fast computer, but your mining rig runs on a slower computer. You may leverage the better computing power for plotting then.

Requirements

To make the move plot feature available, your system must have at least two disks available. This can also be a mounted network drive (see below). Furthermore, you have to guarantee that the plotting drive has enough capacity to write at least one plot file aka chunk. The plotter advises you, if you haven't enough capacity on your drives, and makes only drives with sufficient capacity selectable.

Example:

Drive C: (SSD) has 500 GiB of free capacity and Drive D: has 2 TiB. Drive D: is your target drive, while C: becomes your source drive. Therefore, your single plot files cannot be larger than 500 GiB/2 = 250 GiB. This is, because moving plots is asynchronous and while copying the most recent created plot file, the plotter can continue normally. So, you need to split your plot in at least 8 chunks (2000 GiB/250 GiB = 8) - Keep in mind that you should left a few GiB for your OS.

How it works

During setup you'll be asked for your target drive. This is the drive where you finally want to have the plot to be stored, i.e. your mining disk. If the mentioned requirements are met, you'll be asked for a source drive

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BURST Auto Plotter based on XPlotter
Version 0.5.1-gamma


git+https://github.com/ohager/burst-autoplotter.git
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? What's your numeric BURST Account ID? 1234567890123456789
? Select your disk to plot? Z <<<< TARGET DISK
? What's your total plot size [GiB] - Available: 226.34 GiB? 10 
? In how many chunks do you want to split your plot? 1
? What's your start nonce? 217124
? Do you want to plot on another drive and then move to drive [Z] Yes
? Select the disk to use for creating the plot? (Use arrow keys) <<<< SOURCE DISK
> C

Using network drives

It's also possible to use network drives, or shares. Imagine your mining computer has a drive E: with 4 TiB, but you have a hell of a gaming computer you want to use for plotting. Just do the following:

  • make your target drive of your mining computer available in your network (Share drive)
  • mount the drive as administrator (same admin/user autoplotter will use)
    • in command line net use Z: //BURST-MINER/Drive-E
  • start autoplotter

Now, when choosing the target drive, you should see the recently mounted drive Z:

About copying speed

Since Version 0.5.4 full asynchronous support is available and an additional progress bar was introduced. While copying the recently created plot file, the transfer speed and estimated duration is shown. If the estimated duration for moving the file is greater than the estimated time to conclude a running plot, a warning will be shown. If the plotter finishes a plot, and the copy process is still running, the plotter waits until moving file finishes. Especially, on network drives this can be a significant bottleneck, and in extreme cases you end up with slow copy speed, such that the moving plot feature does not pay. I recommend to checkout the transfer speeds before using the move plot feature and roughly estimate how much time a certain copy may take. A test run with autoplotter (e.g. 10 GiB plot size) may help you.

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