How To Make A BURST Mining Machine

Pls how can u no when u are don plotting your driver and how can u see your burst after mining. It took forever to redownload Blockchain on all my machines.

Hey that looks pretty slick. My miner has gone to the asset that I manage now, but here it is. I have 9 8Tb external drives, a 1.5TB internal (this was my first mining hdd), and an 80GB WD enterprise for the OS. It’s got 8GB DDR3, and a i5-3550S CPU. Scan times are over 40 seconds for everything usually, but I’m hoping that will change when Blago releases his new miner. It’s in my office of my businessthere is so much dust that I gave up trying to keep up with it. I just clean everything out about once a month.

I’m solo mining forging between 1 and 3 blocks every 24 hours. I had the equipment already and 60 2TB hard drives (old Hitachi 7200 RPM drives) and it was a backup system for my media server (the 5th chassis in the rack).

So I would only power it on once a month to do a sync against the media server. Then I caught the mining bug and started mining on a 1070 and a pair of 980Ti’s. I then discovered Burst and decided to re-purpose my backup server it. I have a friend with a similar setup doing the same.

We each have a mirror of each other’s media, so having a local backup as well wasn’t really necessary. I upgraded my main media server from 12 x 6TB + 12 x 4TB drives to 24 x 6TB drives (2 x 12 in RAID 60) and then added to 12 x 4TB drives to the Burst server. Then BestBuy started having the 8TB Easy Store externals on sale for $179.99 and $159.99, so I started to snatch those up and shuck the drives from them. I have gotten pretty good and can shuck a drive in about 60 seconds now, without breaking any tabs. Lol On the GPU mining front I quickly found that the 980Ti’s are not the cards to use for mining, so I sold those and picked up a Zotac 1080Ti. Running it at 70% power and OC both core and memory, it did better than the 2 980Ti’s combined and used way less power to boot.

Then the bug really set in and I build a dedicated mining rig with 6 EVGA 1080Ti cards on a MSI Z270-A PRO motherboard, complete with 6 1x PCIe risers. That sucker is drawing over 1,400W and runs constantly, so I have ordered a 24,000 BUT 22 SEER inverter based mini split, which I hope will resolve the issue once and for all and have excess capacity for future expansion. My power is pretty cheap ($0.08 per kWh) AND I have a 20,000 kWh solar system with a net metering arrangement with my POCO, so my effective cost is only about $0.02 kWh, depending on consumption. I was actually producing more that I consumed before I stared mining, so I have a “bank” of kWh with the POCO. So I keep telling myself (and the wife) that justifies all this. Lol Mining is a disease worse than drug addition I’m telling you!

Very similar to your rig, i use drivers slot blackplane of HP DL180G6,and HP SAS Expander to make a Hdd cabinet with 12 3.5’ hdd, and use dell h200 flash it mode for HBA (6G), blackplane cost $8 and SAS Expander $9 and h200 $30. I use 2 h200 for HBA, 7 backplane, 3 sas expander card mining 84 hdds.

Use jminer, amd hd5770, scan times 80s too slowly, maybe i should find some lsi controller to replace SAS Expander or use more hba card. I buy a dell 12gb HBA,but something error when use SFF8087-4sata cable, it use pcie3.0 8x and max 256 driver, cost $100, maybe it can driver huge hdds in good scan times. I found dell 12gb HBA,use SFF8087-4sata cable, in windows can’t find drivers. But in linux(unbunt 16.04) it’s ok. Now i use dell R710 2x5650,but not support avx, mining too slowly, but I’ve bought a huawei RH2288V2 (FLGA2011, 2xe5-2660 v2) to mining, the cpu support avx,and it’s cheaper than DELL R720 etc maybe LGA1356 is a better choice,because cpu support avx and more cheaper.

You don’t want the ones like this one with the BPN-SAS-846A backplane. You want one with the BPN-SAS2-846A backplane that supports larger than 4TB drives and SAS2 6GPBS speed. The Supermicro stuff is commercial quality for sure. I want to say that I paid about $350 for each of mine, but that was a while ago. They might not be around for that price any longer, especially not with the SAS2 expander backplanes. I also replaced the 2 x 1200W PSUs on mine with a single 500W Platinum for better efficiency. They can be found for around $50 a pop.

I am a relatively new miner, on the network since May 29th, 2017, and have fallen in love with not just Burst, but all of cryptocurrency and mining. I began this journey with a partner, his major contribution was his computer, which we used, up until our parting ways to plot and mine. Unfortunately, his lack of participation lead to his departure from our project, but now I had no computer to use for mining and plotting, and since I already owned thirty-five external hard drives, and am a believer in Burst, I was not ready to pack it up. I began researching and designing this computer a couple weeks ago to find what I believed to be the most rounded setup for a somewhat reasonable price.

As I began thinking more about how a Burst optimized system would be built I identified a couple of key points: The system needs as many internal drives as possible, be able to write large plots while still mining and basic other tasks, and possess enough channels to support all the internal AND external drives. To tackle the first problem I simply used to find a case with as many built in 3.5” drive slots as possible.

Rosewill’s B2 Spirit has 13, and has four 5.25” drive slots which can be converted to 5 additional 3.5” drive slots. This now gave me at a total of 18 internal drive slots built into the case, thus I needed 18 SATA ports to accomodate these drives. The only case that I found with more total drive slots was the Lian-Li Global PC-D8000, with 20 native 3.5” and 6 5.25” slots that could yield 30 internal drives, but that case is hard to find in stock and is over twice the cost (stay tuned for a possible, future build). When choosing a motherboard, I had to consider both the second and third goals. Since I currently own 8TB drives and plot 8TB files I knew that the motherboard needed to accept up to 128GB of RAM. This requirement combined with my target 10 native SATA 6 GB/s ports limited me to the X99 boards. It was important to get as many full size PCIe slots as possible to accommodate the extra 8 internal drives.

I planned to use 2, quad channel, SATA controller cards, and for the USB external drives, I planned to use a quad channel USB controller, as well as the GPU for plotting. There was not any real reason I picked the EVGA X99 Classified over the few other comparable motherboards, except I liked the way it looked. The PCIe cards are the most important part of the build because they let me expand the controllers to accommodate more drives on one board. Using the two SATA controllers I gained an additional 8 drive capacity. As a bonus, the cards have eSATA ports on the rear if I ever decided to put the other drives in an enclosure.

However, I’d expect to build another system rather than do that, simply because I can fit many more drives in, and at a lower per drive cost than an enclosure. The USB controller is a card we had been using on our old system. I have not tested the motherboard controller on this new system, but on our old system we could fit 10 USB devices onto the motherboard controller, adding controller cards multiplied our total by the number of controllers per card. With the current configuration I can fit 50 USB drives onto the one motherboard, and still have a PCIe slot open for another 4 channel controller. Some people may think my choice of a power supply is overkill, not by much if at all, I estimated this system under full load at just over 900w. There is not much to say about the PSU other than its important to make sure you have enough SATA connection points to power everything. This system has 15 SATA connections, but that could have easily been 22.

As 2 of the fans in the system are powered through a molex connection, the 3 to 4 5.25” converter is also powered by 2 molex connections instead of powering each drive independently, and there is room for another USB controller which takes SATA power. To plot, the old system ran on a GTX 980ti. For this build I opted for the newer 1060 series, since it had similar performance and a lower price than a 980ti, so I saw no need in paying the extra money. This card will plot at ~20-25k nonces per minute. Finally the boot drive I chose was an M.2 NVMe SSD. Again no real reason to the brand other than I like Western Digital Black drives and it was on the cheaper end of the scale.

Using an M.2 drive instead of a traditional 2.5” SSD or 3. How Long It Takes To Mine A Ubiq UBQ. 5” HDD allowed me to dedicate all of the SATA ports to the drives that will actually be mining BURST. A side benefit is the incredibly fast boot times this drive produces (never longer than 1 minute power to login). This build is still quite new, and due to my partners departure I had to create a new wallet to mine with, so all my drives have been formatted and are being replotted.

I will be bringing about 8TB on every 26 hours to the Burstmining.club pool, which is where we mined before as well. Now the machine is finished and running. I am excited to share with you the completed project and I hope I can inspire more people to continue or start mining Burst. This is an amazing coin and the mining technique is a wonderful new development. I hope you all enjoy! I have pictures on my website since they are too big to upload here.