I think they recommend responding within 2 seconds so you definitely don't want drives spinning down. see :-
https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/FAQ#is-it-possible-to-have-a-proof-but-not-get-a-reward
Seems like small players might be better to wait for pools to be available as it sounds like you will need to use new plots for pools. Currently the network is at 2.5 exabytes and growing by a significant amount daily so small players are going to struggle to get paid at the moment....
If you have 100TB of spare storage and don't mind killing a bunch of SSD's generating the plots I think you can probably turn a profit eventually... assuming the coin price doesn't fall and the network doesn't grow too much.
https://chiacalculator.com/
Hi,
I'm not interested in the remote access functionality but the backup and key stuff is useful.
What data does this plugin report back to "the mothership". Obviously there is a config backup but what else does the api send?
Thanks,
Chris
I have a fairly similar setup which draws about 140w idle and maybe 220w with all of the disks spun up.
I think the controllers are about 7-10w each so losing those will save some power.... spun down drives are about 4-6w each from memory so again if you can consolidate to larger disks you will save some more power.
At 80w idle I don't think you are going to save a lot.
Something definitely wrong. Would be hot to touch if it was really that hot. If you click the disk what does it report the temperature as under attributes?
Seagate or Toshiba are the only alternatives if you want specialised NAS drives. Personally I buy Toshiba or Seagate NAS / enterprise drives, whichever I can get cheaper. WD RED are 10-20% more expensive for the same product so I haven't bought one of those for quite a long time now.
Also waiting for 2176G's to come into stock so I can upgrade my Plex server...... haven't bought a motherboard yet but it will likely be the same one you bought....... On a side note I still have a HP Workstation with Dual Xeon 2800's and RDRAM (RAMBUS) memory in the attic :)
Have a look at a new Microserver, they do them with cashback.... Looks like they are £140 with £55 cashback in the UK so $145 for a new board seems very expensive....