Quote from: ManicMiner23 on March 25, 2018, 09:57:46 AM

Quote from: mindrust on March 25, 2018, 08:00:45 AM

Quote from: ManicMiner23 on March 25, 2018, 07:42:42 AM

Hello.

What are the profits for hdd mining, is there any profit calculator?

Thanks.

Profits are extremely low at the moment. Unless you have access to cheap hard drives or you already have them, HDD mining isn't profitable much. You can calculate here:
https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org/tool/calculate

A 8tb HDD makes $4.5 in a month, a 8tb seagate ($150) ROI's itself in 30 months. ROI is way worse than GPU's. But there are some good news too; HDD's are futureproof. HDD development is much slower than GPU development and you don't have to worry about their power consumption. As long as you get them cheap, you can fill your room with them. GPU's have more coins to mine though. That's a weakness for BURST.

If you believe in the project there isn't any reason to get in now.

A good question would be to know if is possible to dual mining gpu + hdd mining, in this case I would find it interesting as I can access some cheap or even free hdd's and it would be an extra profit to add to the gpu mining, if not, for me, does not worth it.

Yes you can do it in theory. If you saw my post from the 4th page, I was doing it just like you said.

Quote from: mindrust on March 22, 2018, 04:36:04 PM

One fan can cool 3 of your HDD's. Those seagates have 2 usb ports on the front panel. You can dial your fan there.

Waiting for the new 20xx GPU's and more money, so I can add more HDD's Cool

But for some reason something went wrong. My ping went too high. I started to have connection interruptions, started to get too many rejected shares and after a while wifi just didn't work at all. I couldn't keep it going. Whether it was a windows 10 problem or my usb wifi couldn't handle the statical electricity which was generated by the HDD's and my GPU I don't know. The problem was one of those I am sure.

Anyway I had to move my HDD's to my laptop again. I installed Win7 to my GPU PC and its working fine now. (without HDD's) Probably will try again later. (hate to carry hdd's between rooms. Installing w7 to a new mobo was also too cancerous , I'll probably let it run like this for a while. Angry

) Will let you know about the outcome when (if) I do.