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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 an mounted network drive (see below). Furthermore, you have to guarantee that the plotting drive has at least enough capacity to write at least one plot file aka chunk. The plotter advices you, if you haven't enough capacity on your drives, and makes only drives with sufficient capacity selectable.

Example:

Drive C: (SSD) has 300 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 300 GiB. So, you need to split your plot in at least 7 chunks (2000 GiB/300 GiB = 6.66) - 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 that drive where you finally want to have the plot be stored, i.e. your mining disk. If the 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 have 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:

Note: All plots are moved asynchronously, but the last, which will be moved synchronously

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