Chia Farming... How Does It Actually Work?

[@MiningChamber]

*Notes* - I butchered the calculator at the end by putting the initial space of plots at 92 TiB when it should have been 0 - Which resulted in seeing high profits at first when it should've been gradually increasing instead. Sorry!! - I made another whopsy! >< a 2TB SSD can do 7 plots (7 * 256 GB per plot = 1,792 GB) So just the RAM will bottleneck - Forgot to talk about RAID. RAID for your final storage is not recommended (you want to maximize capacity) as for your Temp storage you can use RAID to boost speed - If you have "Not Synced" problem with your Wallet/Node then try opening the Chia Porotocol Port on your router - Port 8444 Thank you all for the great feedback! Keep em coming

[@marwanwehbe5684]

thanks a lot . according to profit . it every month if my pc still plot . or what . if i didn't add any new hdd

[@GP-qb9hi]

Please make a video on harvesting. How to set up a second computer properly (I have heard you cannot run 2 nodes on the same network...)

[@TheGugustar]

What about Raid 0 for the final storage? Is doesn't hurt the capacity and provides better writing speeds. Would it help with the end of the plotting phase and/or the farming?

[@MiningChamber]

@@TheGugustar For Farming RAID is not recommended, I believe it is because it stores "duplicates" across harddrives? I could be completely wrong but from what I read its better not to use RAID with final storage, it wont help in any way

[@dadol3213]

8c 16t can do 9 plots at a time, needs 32g's of ram

[@rubencampos1873]

Can you tell us, what your daily mining is now that Chia is at $30? thanx

[@cliffordholbert9239]

So of I use a 3tb ssd for plotting using a amd 9590 and 64gb ram then farm them on 50tb of storage space. The calculator says its potential to make almost 2k a month average. Did I enter it wrong? After I farm them, do I have to just buy more storage or can they be deleted to rewarm to the hdd?

[@pynoypride87]

This is awesome and comprehensive!!! Do you have an update for 2023? I’m a little late

[@rafii4408]

I think it is not worth it

[@HR12465]

What do you think about Chia now?

[@chev4645]

Hey fella, Since you have the most information in your videos, is it possible for you to make a video on "How to mine Chia on multiple PCs"?

[@gamesbygrigg7447]

does setting up a more expensive rig mean more profitability per TB of storage or does it just mean that you're able to set up your plots faster?

[@MiningChamber]

Yes so just faster plotting, earning remains the same

[@EyceLive]

hey so i have a doubt, i have an i5 9400F, 16gigs of ram and about 8tb of HDD space i can arrange. (1060 6gb graphics card) to earn and profit a decent bit, how much should i upgrade my ram and do i need to make any other changes to my pc? mobo :- B360MD Asus

[@jdmfreak101]

How long does it take for a plot to finish with a relatively fast nvme gen 4?

[@KushalChachan]

At 27:46 shouldn't your initial space of plots be 0 TiB? Then you start plotting 2.5 TiB per day till you reach 92 TiB (Max total space of plots). Please correct me if I am wrong.

[@MiningChamber]

Yess my bad! I added a pinned comment on it, Im such a noob

[@TheSentry21]

What do you use in the video to hold your mother board ?

[@bokiko]

by far the best and the simplest video i saw in the past 2 months about chia , bravo my friend 👍👍👍

[@MiningChamber]

Thank you my friend ⛏️💙

[@smooblox69420]

Absolutely agree

[@I.M.CROW.]

I'm just learning and starting on gpu mining very late compared to many... yet now I find out hard drive mining, WiFi hotspot mining helium, cpu mining etc What to choose....

[@kudokido5361]

type of format wether exFAT or NTFS for external hdd, does this matter too? some said exFAT slower than NTFS

[@FauxyCloud]

Hi. I have a similar hardware setup. How much ware does this cause on your ssd & what's the life expectancy?

[@MiningChamber]

Depends on your TBW. I talk about it in the min specs part

[@steventong803]

I found my pc port no.8444 is closed and check other ports also closed, if the 8444 port closed, does this can get the coin? I check other non mining computer, the port is closed, how to solve this problem?

[@KILO993]

Was curious about Chia now that I've decommissioned a storage server from work. I guess I missed it or it's not going so well with 1 XCH being worth $32USD.....yikes

[@I.M.CROW.]

Oh question once the drives are full does it get wiped and starts from scratch what do you do with a drive that is full of the saved plots???

[@monishamitkumar2817]

Hi.. i connected everything as it shows in the video, but my rig doesn't turn on What did i do wrong ???

[@I.M.CROW.]

Do we have to continously buy drives once its full or does it ease or go over the plots again confused how that works.

[@tedvoyles8032]

Once your hard drives have been plotted, do you ever have to "replot" them or are they forever plotted, unless you change your wallet address?

[@MiningChamber]

so far you dont but there is a thing about the k32 k33 that I need to look more into I will do a full update on that topic in the next part of this video!

[@dronetheworld4k67]

So 256 gb temporary storage allows 1 plot ? So 2Tb hypothetically can allow 7 plots ?

[@fistfulofash8305]

Hi i want to know if we cant re-use the hard drives after the mining? Like can we delete stuff and can re-use or the process damages the hard drive enough that its left to throw way.

[@spork6999]

Why did you change your thread to 4 threads for log one and why not just keep it at 2? Moreover if I have 12 threads do I need to put it to 4?

[@jasonmoss6891]

I have slow internet access. How do I know if I have enough data for mining?

[@RomanOrekhov]

Some questions from home-PC-farming perspective: 1) Is it possible to shut down plotting in the middle and have it continue (rather than start from scratch) after? 2) Does one know if it's ok to delete the plot being farmed because it already won? Or because one can be sure it never would win? 3) If one shuts down PC while farming and during the shutdown time it would appear one of the plots "won", would one know it after resuming farming? 4) Is it possible for several people to plot the same plot? For example, what happens if I compute one plot and then delete it? Would it be possible for anyone else to plot the same plot after that?

[@flicka401]

1.) NO 2.) Impossible, its like bitcoin sha256 hitting the same thing twice, the plotname is is a huge NONCE, a number that is only drawn once, now you could instance have people sell the same plot to many people online but people would never do that right? 3.) Plotting has nothing to do with mining ( farming the plots ) typically on your plotter you only make new plots, your miners are your harvesters on your farms of plots, any PC can be running a miner (hpool, or chia-farmer ) 4.) sure but the first one who reports to the blockchain wins, and that will always be the largest pool, and this will always be HPOOL.

[@ardatuncel]

Lets say I have a 500 gb ssd and 1tb hdd, I will use ssd for plotting and use hdd for saving my plots. After the hdd full, what does happen? Does my mining (farming?) stop? Or I just sit and wait for win after hdd is full with plots and ssd’s job is over?

[@mahdighofrani3750]

Hello. I am calling from Iran. I have a very small farm. It has been a few days since I encountered a problem in Chia Farm. The wallet syncs but the ful node does not sync and no matter what I do, it is not fixed. Please help me.

[@zanqro]

Will it not be ok to, for instance, get a high-end laptop with 3 x usb slots and plug in 3 times 5gb hard drives in it. That means for eg. laptop is 2 tb and each hard drive 5tb that means 17 TB of space. Is it not that simple? What am I missing?

[@alanparry7]

My system creates a plot but it doesn't move to farming, what's wrong?

[@CombatFrame]

if i have only one spare HDD can i devide it in 2 partitions one for tem.files and other part for final destination will that make any difference????

[@flicka401]

You must run chia-pos ( plotter ) using two temp paths called -t, and -2; -t is the path to the NVME drive; -2 is a path to a ssd-sata drive when the plot is complete 8-12 hours for temporary storage to offload the plot from the -t disk, chia-pos will transfer the plot ( 108gb ) from -2 file to your -d ( destination ) hdd drive when the plot is complete ( 8-12 hours ) If you try and point either -t or -2 to physical drives you will destroy them, I tried this just for fun last month, and I killed a 2tb WD blue HDD. I could reformat it, sequential writing of large files formatted with linux ZFS format is fine for physcial HDD's, random access of 1.5 Trillion r/w is NOT normal usage for a HDD. You must understand that during the 8-12 hour process of "Plot file creation" that 1.5 Trillion read/write are done randomly to the drive, no commercial drive is designed for this abuse. People buy "USED" SAS drives are just getting sold a 'bill of goods', these disks got retired for a reason. NEW SAS drives cost more than high-end NVME's. Lastly, never use partitioned drives for plotting, must be formatted ext 'ZFS', 'discard' on linux, you must frequently 'trim' the SSD or it will slow to a crawl, 'discard' tells the OS to clean (run fstrim ) the NVME, its not an automatic process.

[@CombatFrame]

@@flicka401 thanks for the info man

[@cembayramoglu4628]

What should be the average phase 1 plotting time for a 2tb nvme ssd?

[@cantCComment]

can i mine this together with monero? wont it lower my monero hashrate?

[@RamanPlayz410]

Is it valuable to buy these many hard drives and what if chia coin dumps?

[@RamanPlayz410]

@@Austin-fc5gs i am stuck with gpu mining for now I will decide for chia in the future

[@scoot4081]

@@RamanPlayz410 that might not be a good idea as your chance of “winning” or actually getting any rewards seems to be rapidly decreasing.

[@RWUltima]

For chiah coins network, are u able to withdraw from the mining wallet to an exchange remotely? Or must it be at the site of the mining rig…

[@Hardrox54]

Hey, do you recommande using 2 pcie in raid O for ploting i got 2x 1.92 tb and i can do 10 parallele with 64g ram

[@MiningChamber]

I have to do my homework on that so I'll make sure to mention it in the plotting guide!

[@jameelhadi9462]

After mine( 2 chia).what we ll sell it.then again our hard disk ll free

[@eddiechi1]

One of the more concise Chia startup videos out there.... question tho - can the plots be deleted off the temp drive (nvme) after it hits 100% plotting and farming is started on the final destination drive

[@bonhomie6275]

Can I run proof of work and proof of space at the same time? I have r7 7800x3d, 32gb 6400mhz and rx 7900xtx, 2 M.2 2+1tb

[@dronetheworld4k67]

Do you think we can use 192 gb RAM disk for temporary storage instead of ssd ? Or can we even use normal hdd for temporary storage I just don’t like the idea of using ssds for temporary storage and wear them over time…

[@moritzrothacher2669]

So yea one way to keep making money is to continuosly buying more Drives. But is it possible as well to format the drives every couple weeks and plotting them again?

[@MiningChamber]

You don't want to format and lose your plots, you want to accumulate as much plots as possible

[@moritzrothacher2669]

@@MiningChamber Okay yea maybe not every couple weeks, but the plots are worthless once they got rewarded, right? If so at some point it would better to fill the drives with new plots... Idk maybe I misunderstood something 🤷

[@marwanwehbe5684]

hi having a good day/ evening . what happened when final desk full , 1.insert new hard drive 2. still get money from previous hard drive . 3. can you explain plz thanks

[@MiningChamber]

when disk is full with plots then its just farming after, you can put new harddrive and plot it too after.

[@_FERG]

So it damages the temporary drive and the final destination hard drives, i have a m2 on my pc i use for things but i have a slot for another so i could get that and use it for plotting to clean hard drives? Does it damage anything else the cpu or anything?

[@haidinho6191]

So If i have 3 HDD (10 tb each) and 1 SDD (2 tb), I would plot from SSD then farm with HDD. What do you do after plotting, would you have to go back in the plotting menu and create another set to the same HDD?

[@BinhNguyen-il5qd]

Yes, you need to re-create plots until all your HDD full.

[@TheElioref]

after i filled my hdd's i can disconnect them ? o should they stay connect to PC

[@anonymoususer4791]

Quick questions, sorry for the newbie question, I noticed after a week of plotting/farming I would always hit 1/30 plots passed filter. 1. Is that 1/30 really accurate? just one? 2. also, are my connections correct? my farmer and wallet are addressed to 127.0.0.1, while full nodes are connected to three different addresses My worry is that I set this up based on the available tutorial over youtube (random people) and that I might be missing something. Can anyone help?

[@sreekanthreddy6979]

How many plots can I get for one 18th hard disc?

[@dronetheworld4k67]

One last question Will I observe constant cpu work load 24/7 while plotting and will the ram be fully RESERVED for the plots ?...

[@MiningChamber]

The cpu workload is lessened after phase 1 but the ram I believe remains the same. The storage for sure remains the same

[@wrzdls]

Can somebody explain, if I have 8 cores, 16 threads, how many should I plot paralell? if I only have 2tb ssd, I should plot 7 paralell without delay ?

[@MiningChamber]

Each plot needs 256 gb from your ssd so you can do 3 at most

[@wrzdls]

@@MiningChamber Hello, do you mean 6, right ? 2tb SSD. So basically when the SSD is the weakest link, there is no need delay (plots dont use all of threads at a time) ? or delay is also needed at last part, writing to HDD?

[@MiningChamber]

@@wrzdls Oh I am so sorry I even messed that up in the video >< I kept thinking of 2TB ssd as 1 TB. yes your right with 7 parallel but with delay! the reason for the delay is because you want to give your plots 4 threads each in phase 1, figure out when your phase 1 finishes and set that as your delay. 16/4 = 4 so you can do the proper delay and youl be plotting 4 post phase 1 then kicks in the other 3

[@wrzdls]

@@MiningChamber I thought (seen somewhere else) that 1 plot use maxium 2 threads, its wrong ?

[@googooboyy]

So, you can plot on one computer continuously, then save those plots on a harddisk, then bring that harddisk anywhere earth, separated geographically and have it mined altogether, a la hive mind, to a single wallet???

[@yeahright3348]

What i don't understand, is why do you need a high spec computer to "farm" chia. I can understand how a high spec computer would speed up plot creation, but would all that performance be wasted once all you're storage is full?

[@khoofsirfallahka2935]

Can u help me to buy all and setup this l. Whats the total random cost of this all

[@easwarn5793]

Possible to mix chia farming and bitcoin mining in a single PC ?? Can they run parallel??

[@terry.chootiyaa]

*Hi Have you make any videos showing how to mine on cloud computing platforms like azure as aws ?*

[@davidgreenwood8542]

Curious is it more "worth it" to go with 1 24 core 48 thread cpu to plot or go with multiple smaller core/thread cpus multiplying how many parralel plottings you can do ... seems like there would be a break even on 1 vr multiple speed vrs multiples at slower rates ... sorry if this isnt technical speak ... just curious (also the cost of the highest end cpu versus multiple lower ones)

[@lovesingh2188]

bruh you are just awesome i been watching so many video on chia past 2 weeks and had so many questions and after watching your video i got all my answers thnxs mate

[@jond2372]

What if there's a power cut while plotting or farming?

[@thequietkiwi]

I think you can guess. Probably a good idea to use a UPS.

[@Uni12355]

newbie here what happens if my plot ssd drive full for temp drives ? delete the files manually ? any automated software ? thanks

[@iMakeFunWithFish]

Use SSD only for temporary drive for plotting and standard HDD for storing/farming. When plotting is completed the temporary files are automaticaly deleted from the SSD. And also have a little more space than needed just in case and it is healthier for the SSD too, and don't forget to leave some space on local (Win) drive too.

[@Uni12355]

@@iMakeFunWithFish Thank you . am usung ubuntu os with Swar for plotting . Since have couple of Dell R910 with 24core and 24 thread processor , 128GB ECC ram . I managed to get 2 Intel 1.92TB PCIE express u.2 with nvme 2 units , 3 intel ssd1.92TB , 10G fiber network card . Now waiting Fiber switch transceiver and setup my nas for this machine to plot into . cant wait to try it out how much can plot to the harvester ( total 691TB Raid 0 Raw data).

[@bakri99]

The Ultimate Chia Farming Guide ✨ this is the best video I've ever watched for chia. Thank you my Friend.

[@MiningChamber]

Aww thank you I appreciate that, I thought I didn't do so well but glad to hear otherwise 🙏⛏️

[@gigihulj6949]

@@MiningChamber Any idea if the 1.1.5 version makes poolable plots ? Not sure what plots cand be used with future pools . . .

[@MiningChamber]

@@gigihulj6949 nothing is out for that yet as far as I know sorry

[@DavidHarris8736]

Can I use the same set-up, to farm other coins ?

[@Suzuki_Hiakura]

So would assigning one or two chia plots wear the storage drive down slower? I assume so, but HDD mining is a new concept for me currently.

[@Metalandstuff464]

Out of curiosity have you gotten past the syncing stage?

[@Suzuki_Hiakura]

​@@Metalandstuff464 Could you please elaborate on what you are asking? I haven't mentioned in my message that I was starting a chia miner and was asking how it wears down a storage device; such as if I section parts off in an attempt to prolong its use, would it last longer?

[@halomov1]

On selecting plot size, i have 50Tb, do i plot 500Gb size plots or 1Tb size plots? Whats the advantages of small and large plots?

[@MiningChamber]

No advantage, k32 is good - I talk about it in the video multiple times

[@halomov1]

@@MiningChamber ahhh facked! Now to delete 40 plots.. jeez

[@flicka401]

There is only one plot size right now supported by the mining-pool they call it k32, its 108gb. You can fit 8 of them on a 1TB drive. You can run the hpool sw on any computer that has a drive containing 'plots' attached. When you 'plot' you run the cmd line "chia plot create -t ... -2 ... -d ..." you don't enter -k 32 because is the default, the only reason they have -k n is so you can make baby 1gb plots for 'testing the software'.

[@bradley9856]

Is it worth farming with a few spare hard drives on a system dedicated to GPU mining with a 4 thread CPU and 8GB of ram?

[@TuLe-qg7ge]

Do you try to research filecoin for everyone to understand? thanks bro

[@cryptomannys]

Great Video, question i may have missed it, but what happens if you dont win?

[@B4nan0n]

I was happy to hear: “is a green coin, is with hard drives” but then: for low budget you need a minimum of 8 cores and 1 high quality ssd. :(

[@MrQmie]

Yes... Very efficient and "green"...

[@fluffykin5102]

Would a older used server be good for chia farming since they have a lot of cores and ram?

[@MiningChamber]

I looked into servers alot some are really good but the speed of the processor also matters so you will be able to do more plots in parallel but it will be slower

[@flicka401]

This is a major problem here, they have plotting, farming, and harvesting. It's only the 'plotting' that requires a super-computer & NVME drive to make the plots. Once you have the plots you run the farming software which processes the plots and send the results to the block-chain/pool ( lets just say mother ), harvesting is when you have lots farms all processing at the same time. Yes, you can have a 20 year old dinosaur computer, but the problem is they only supported 4gb files up until 20 year ago; Also each plot is 108GB, so a 1TB drive will only old 8 plots, and most old computer's have 512MB hd's; Most of the USB 3.0 external stuff now like 18tb are great but your old computer doesn't support USB 3.0, but you can get a PCIE card to handle this. Mining (FARMING) doesn't require any special cpu, or memory, the farming uses less than 1GB of ram. What I do is attach large TB HD's to my plotting computer and as they become full of plots I attach these HD's to old computers, I found that LAN networking doesn't work well, the plots need to be on the same system as their miner. Just like mining rigs with GPU's, you just rename every farmer with its own name, but you always use the same public-key for all your plots, on the WWW interface for HPOOL, all your farmers by name show up and how many plots you have, and how much you are making. The only thing here difficult is "PLOTTING", e.g. actually making the plots. This requires a super-computer 8+ core,32+GB RAM, .. and 3+ SSD's&NVME's, your OS needs to have its own m2., your plotter needs to have its own NVME, your temporary target for new plots needs to have its own ssd ( here a slow sata will work ), and then you need to have tons of TB attached to the plotter to save the plots, which get generated every 6-8 hours, if you have a super-computer and NVME plotter. Seriously this thing is marketed as green but its all BS, original bitcoin required 512mb of memory GPU mining requires 6gb gpus, and now space-mining requires 300GB of dynamic-ram to create a plot on a super-computer. All they have done is devise new ways to make stuff difficult, the entire narrative of using old computers, and that chia is green is 100% bs. There is a gimmick here many people are now offering services of selling you 'plots', think about this for a moment, you pay $100, to make 10 cents/day, and lose 1/2 every week. ... Your question, I think is you think that your old computer can MAKE PLOTS, it CANNOT, but it can "farm-plots", I really don't know how to explain the difference, these people have really messed up language. In normal mining we just call it mining, our GPU's are looking for a magic-hash every 15 minutes, and the first to find it wins; Here its the same plotting is 'creating the lottery ticket', must be done on a super computer, after that, you can place your plots on old computers, if they have the storage ability to hold 10's of trillions of bytes of data.

[@poviku8878]

I think it is, x79 motherboards and ddr3 ecc are in demand in china rn, they rose up in prices too because of that, It's actually harder rn to get one of those x79 motherboards from suppliers but not as hard as getting GPUs. I only have 2 of them left in stock here, i'm having trouble getting more of them from my supplier because the high demand they're in rn. It may be because gamers wanna get something for cheap that is decent or may be because they're good and cheap for chia miners.

[@danielgao173]

what does the trade button do on the chia gui?

[@MiningChamber]

It doesn't really do anything as of now I believe, but I'd assume it's for trading your chia later or sending your chia

[@zackk6415]

Question: can i use multiple HDD (final size) with different GB, like 5 HDD and merge them together in one partition, is it a good thing?

[@MiningChamber]

Yes for sure can!

[@wagnernoise]

Intel chips are more efficient than AMD for Chia plotting. There's a video comparing both in detail, it seems that what is more important is the single thread performance, which are better on Intel. Cheers!

[@prateeksaxena3297]

Does running T-Rex Miner on a private Home Wifi Network compromises other devices on the network for viruses?

[@MiningChamber]

If your pc is infected by any malware it can make it's way around your network. So just make sure you install the authentic version of trex

[@ochnoe274]

You made a BIG mistake when you Talk about the calculated earnings at the end: You said you plot up to 100TB but in the calc you set 92 TiB as INITIAL PLOT SIZE and UNLIMITED as MAX PLOT SIZE and thats a completely different result in early Earnings (you dont make 100 $/ day with 0 inital Plots and plotting speed of 2.5TiB/day up to Max 100TB Plot size) and is VERY MISLEADING, please correct that!

[@MiningChamber]

I am such a noob! Sorry!! Adding a pinned comment right now

[@ochnoe274]

@@MiningChamber thank you, I appreciate your humble capability of criticism

[@dirtymonty3562]

Crazy how good this video was

[@romanbellic5241]

Can I do much with a 120gb ssd and 4x2tb hdds? Is it profitable enough? I tried watching the video but don't really understand. Can I also mine ethereum on the same pc?

[@romanbellic5241]

@Andrew Huberrman thats not what I asked

[@atul18790]

I have one question for plotting we give internal space (internal SSD) when plotting is done and shifted to farming on external hard drive. Will internal space free automatically or we have delete that file ??

[@MiningChamber]

It will automatically free up that is correct! only time you need to manually remove the temp files is if your plot crashes

[@atul18790]

@@MiningChamber thanks for reply you are best😎

[@aditya-garg]

So 1 plot requires 256 gb ssd,what about the hdd?Is it stored in compressed format?Ideal size/need to keep expanding?

[@drtyzr2977]

I have an i7 on my 8 GPU mining rig can I mine chia while mining my 8 GPUs?

[@TimScharinger]

If you restart your computer, do you need to resync afterwards?

[@flicka401]

If you are plotting ( a 8-12 hour process) it cannot be interrupted, you lose all. If your are farming, e.g. connecting your plots to the Hpool, then you can start - stop the process anytime you wish. 'sync' is a blockchain terminology, you don't need to sync, or run the blockchain to plot or to mine (farm); If fact as of right now the entire chia-net blockchain is broken, and nobody can sync, they rushed to main-net on 5may2012 with buggie software. Nobody knows when the software will be fixed, and especially the pooling protocol from chia-net, its terminally challenged. Which is why chia-net hates HPOOL, cuz they have been up & running forever.

[@dronetheworld4k67]

Also can I use several enterprise grade ssd (already got them) on raid for the temporary storage ? Or should I simply use the HDD for temporary and final storage ??....

[@MiningChamber]

You should always use ssd for temp storage, in the video I emphasis on that ;) enterprise grade ssd in raid will be great for temp storage. HDD is super slow so only use it as final storage

[@dronetheworld4k67]

@@MiningChamber oh I thought u said we can still just go with the hdd for both temp and final storage, anyways thanks for making this clear 👍

[@jeremyk3154]

Definitely you could RAID the enterprise grade SSD's to increase performance of generating plots. I would recommend using HDD's for the final storage (5400 RPM would be fine but the larger the better).

[@flicka401]

MC is right, use RAM disks for 'creating' the plot you use physical ( moving part ) drives for permanent storage of plots. Enterprise SSD's are fine for -2 temp, but if they're not up to NVME 4/16X PCIE level of performance, e.g. 5,000MB/S. I would be leary. Here's the deal SSD are usually SATA, and that is obsolete and slow its ok for -2 temp storage of the plot. For -t plot creation you must use a high-end NVME drive, chia-net advise the lowest end possible as the corsair MP-530 a $250 2TB NVME with a 3200 TBW warranty. My EVO 980 Pro's usually burnup at 100 plots, or 150TB which is 25% of warranty, A normal SATA SSD drive will get destroyed by the -t chia-pos algo, its the work of the devil we say. Sata drives are designed for sequential, the plotting process is 1.5 Trillion random-read/writes. No Sata-SSD or HDD is designed for this abuse.

[@flicka401]

@@jeremyk3154 Go ahead and try it, but if beware to run chia-pos on anything your not willing to destroy. It destroys NVME drives and it destroys HDD's. I think if you had a new rack of RAID-0 drives and you wanted to sacrifice them to the chia-gods more power to you. These people buying 'used' retired SAS drives and thinking they can do 20-30 plots per day are going to find out real quick why these drives got retired and sold on ebay for $30. Most enterprise grade SSD's that are SATA are now considered obsolete, which is why they're all being sold. State of the art is NVME, enterprise grade. But very expensive, for a hobby that only makes your $10/day.

[@Fresh2Death890]

Great video. Just got all my parts for my chia building. Nice to know other people are interested in this

[@JohnSmith-ct4ux]

There's a shortage right now for the equipment needed, but I've got a surplus in inventory. Call [phone] and ask for Christian.

[@backnforth8401]

U.2 Drives like the Intel DC D7 P4510 is a good for Chia on paper because the PCI-E speed unlike SATA III and they are meant to last much longer than consumer SSDs

[@juche1777]

Does Chia integrate with Filecoin? I will check but seems like a good partnership.

[@kulpreetsingh2921]

You're awesome, I've a question to save time we can buy plots using public farm key and connect it via farming machine of our wallet. What do you think about it?

[@MiningChamber]

I saw that I honestly have nothing against it yet but not very educated about it either. Il mention it in the next chia farming video

[@kulpreetsingh2921]

@@MiningChamber oh I myself took a risk and bought some plots it's in shipping for now, let's see how it goes. Btw awesome video man, love your work.

[@Tallinn66666]

Great video, thanks! Question, what if I use 5 different computers to prepare hard drives for mining. Let’s assume I have 100tb space ready for mining, what will be approximate daily earnings?

[@MiningChamber]

Thank you! Depends on the computers, follow I'll be going more in depth on that in the next chia video!

[@jasonokeefe7599]

what happens if your farming for a while and want to move your plots to another drive? do those plots no longer work, or do they just have to sit on the new drive for some amount of time before they become possible winners again?

[@MiningChamber]

You simply just move them and nothing will change

[@stay-awhile1369]

Now let's hope I can get my hands on some suitable storage before everyone catches on. Already have a pretty boss spare system lying around. Would you recommend the Seagate firecuda drives?

[@ali-paskal]

can i use i9-9900K for this computing ??

[@shaan9687]

what is the difference between nicehash and other softwares do they give a substantial amount more ?

[@MiningChamber]

Nicehash takes 5% fees while other miners such as Trex and teamredminer they take only 1% or Less

[@lubtlpp9284]

How much internet it consumes

[@MiningChamber]

Barely anything when farming, not sure about the numbers exactly though

[@andrejivanoski9361]

So, you need to constantly plot to keep up with network growth if you want to increase your CHANCE to earn anything at all, you are basically using your plotting machine with all the hardware except GPU running at 100% 24/7, and on top of that you need to buy HDD after HDD to store your plots and new SSD's because you are killing it after a month or so. So the inital cost for a decent plot machine is high, high capacity fast SSD's and high capacity HDD's are expensive and is a reccuring cost, and on top of that you pay the electrical bill for running the plot machine ~1000W 24/7. AND you need to run a farming machine on top of that with increasing number of connected HDD's, so add another farming machine once the number of supported HDD's is met. What aspect of this is green and sustainable?

[@Hornet135]

The plot machine isn’t gonna consume 1000 watts.

[@TaaliSwaan]

Your CPU is 4 core so doesn't that mean you can plot only 4 plots parallely? At 22:41 I think maybe you made a mistake? Pls. correct me if I'm wrong.

[@MiningChamber]

It comes down to your threads, 4 cores 8 threads. Each plot takes 4 threads in phase 1 then 1 thread only after phase one

[@TaaliSwaan]

@@MiningChamber Isn't it 2 threads per plot? An 8 thread cpu can plot 4 parallelly, I believe.

[@subrotoxie7962]

Hi can explain, if i have just 5 TiB of space or about 45 plot 32k, can i get chia i coma amount or i must stay to get 1 xch its more than 8 month

[@MiningChamber]

You have to win a block and that can take up to 8 months but it can even happen in days. It's all luck when it's solo mining

[@subrotoxie7962]

@@MiningChamber you mean i must stayed my mining rig about 24hours for 8 months to chance win 1 xch, and i not get in coma amount when the process running about for 1 month.

[@sasho1bsable]

@@subrotoxie7962 yes:) minimum 1 year:)

[@flicka401]

your 45 plots has a 51% chance of winning a block in the next 8 months, this means that you also have a 49% chance of getting zero. The only way you can rig the game to win 100% of the time is to run on a mining pool. Who we shall not name. :)

[@subrotoxie7962]

@@flicka401 when my network is often unstable or my internet does not have a good speed what will also be a factor to get reward

[@tedvoyles8032]

So would you even need a separate GPU, or could you just utilize the build in one?

[@MiningChamber]

You don't need a gpu at all really but yes you can use any gpu

[@tedvoyles8032]

@@MiningChamber i figured as much, but just wanted to confirm. Thank you!

[@mexicanhcwow]

Can i use surveillance hard drives for plotting?

[@MiningChamber]

Yes

[@tataalmosa5295]

Mining Chamber,can you make videos how to achieve "10,000 plots" re: Plot:RAM:THREADS:SPACE to ratio, Please include hardware and cost. The return on the calculator is tempting. Regards.

[@marcg9285]

Hey there, would you recommend mining Ergo nowadays? It seems like even more profitable than Ethereum, or is it just a "one-hit-wonder"?

[@sudararohitha]

Does power cuts ruin the farming process? And should I start from the beginning???

[@MiningChamber]

Farming process has no progress so as long as it's online you have a chance to win if it's offline then you don't. But it's not like plotting where you have to start over

[@sudararohitha]

@@MiningChamber Thanks Brother...

[@garybains331]

Hey Guys 👋 is HNT mining worth it Because I am currently saving to buy one are they good? Becuase I don’t want to loose ma money

[@garybains331]

And also does any body know where I can buy them?

[@MiningChamber]

@@garybains331 This is the video you are looking for kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXrTnGeHlriVgJo

[@Bright0811]

It is profitable to mine it if I live in Denmark?

[@guypierce6323]

1 plot on an average system will require 116 years to win 1 XCH according to the calculator, and as the system expands more plots will have to be added exponentially in order to keep up, not really worth the trouble.

[@ISeeDeadGamers]

buy the coin right now you can purchase 145 chia for the price of the 10 hdd and hardware to make the miner its over 5000$ now to build a miner that make 6$ a day. thats a 20hdd setup

[@himanshur7277]

Can I get information regarding mining in mobile phone..?

[@MiningChamber]

Doing a video on that soon for sure!

[@himanshur7277]

@@MiningChamber thank you so much sir