Quote from: PeaMine on February 02, 2016, 03:36:17 PM

I've been following Burst since 2014, but always had trouble understanding it with Linux and multiple drives.
I have a main SSD OS drive I don't want to mine on, then a platter 2TB HD(going to add more)
I have a 4770K for the processor and 750Ti for the GPU. What is the best method you think of going about all this?
I assume I should pool mine? How long does it take to make a 2TB Plot on CPU vs GPU.
What about 50TB?

The most straight forward thing you can do is to CPU plot using the dcct tools.
On Linux it is much simpler to plot than on Windows since you have shellscript.

If you can use the boot or a spare ssd for plotting the optimization would be much faster.
after the plot is optimized you move it to your storage location.
best way to do it is to create a scriptfile with all plots which shall be created.
each plot is then created and optimized afterwards like this (replace all marked parameters "xxx" with yours):

nice ./plotavx2 -k "replace with your numeric account id" -x 2 -d plots -s 1 -n 524288 -m 16384 -a -t 8
./optimizefiles.sh
nice ./plotavx2 -k "replace with your numeric account id" -x 2 -d plots -s "1+524288" -n 524288 -m 16384 -a -t 8
./optimizefiles.sh
nice ./plotavx2 -k "replace with your numeric account id" -x 2 -d plots -s "1+524288+524288" -n 524288 -m 16384 -a -t 8
./optimizefiles.sh

a simple optimize script i used is this (it optimizes all files in the ./plots folder and then moves it to the target location; adjust the paths if needed):

files=`find ./plots|grep _`
for i in $files; do
./optimize -m 4096 $i
touch done/$i
done
mv plots/* /mnt/burst/plots/

for mining you then simply add each plotfile storage location to the miner command.

I hope this helps and is not too "technical" Roll Eyes