Hi all,

My first try at mining BURST on my Celeron powered ETH Mining Rig went smoothly and everything works fine wihout any conflict. I'm only using a 800GB plot file for now, this is the available space I had on my Rig's HDD. The purpose was mainly to test that it works with the Celeron and with Claymore's ETH miner running at the same time. So the answer is YES ! I will now add external USB drives little by little as I can afford.

But let me explain the steps I went through, because I think there might be other or simpler ways to do things, so please feel free to comment, thanks.

To create my plot file, I have used wplotgenerator.exe Dowloaded from this page but it doesnt creates optimized plot files
I created the plot file (800GB) with my desktop computer (Intel Core i5 4590 - 16GB RAM) so it was quite fast. I created the plot file on an external 2TB USB drive with 1TB space available.

After that, I ran the BURST Plot Optimier GUI and generated the optimized plot file directly on my ETH Mining Rig.


The problem is the plot optimizer is not modifying the unoptmized plot file, it creates a new file, that's why you need to create the optimized file on another drive unless you have enough space on your drive to hold the two files (unoptimized and optimized)

The problem with doing this way is: if you have let's say 4 disks of 5TB, you can hardly optimize the 4th drive because you don't have 5TB of available temporary free space.
You can check the message I left to IMineBlocks about this problem as a comment to his great video, it explains the problems with more details and an example.


Which wallet are you using ?
I am using this wallet: https://github.com/BurstProject/burstcoin and there is no option to create plot file, unless I didn't find it ?

Any help will be greetly  appreciated, thanks again !