Hows the servers working for yall?
Just realized your a fellow container farmer like myself, but i have mine setup on an all watercooled setup to control temps... how have you managed to control temps in yours?
mine is located in Florida, i bought some property that had 2 old mobile home pads with separate power panels that old abandoned burned down mobile homes lived once a long time ago...... Picked up the property for little to nothing and settled with the county to offset all the fees tacked on the property from all the junk and 2 abandoned mobiles if i cleaned it all up and got rid of the junk... so i spent a few months burning junk from the 80's lol....
Currrently I'm forcing tons of air through the unit. Soon I will have to AC. I've painted both containers white and am in the process of building a solar shade. I have my work cut out for me! Even though the servers have given me some fits, I'm glad I went that route.
I'm new to using USBs to run OSs for mining. Is it possible to use or does anyone have experience running Windows as an OS on these USBs? or do i need a custom mining OS like Hive or EthOs? I'm familiar with linux/ubuntu as well but windows is just way user friendly for configuring and remote troubleshooting.
USB sticks for Linux OK! USB sticks for Windows, NOPE. Sucks. Might work, you won't be happy. HIVEOS is the easiest of ALL once you figure out interface.
I hit a wall at 9 cards on the 580 also, using SMOS. Spent countless hours getting 9 cards to work. In one way i love the HP servers, H/s on cryptonight is a bonus but as a gpu-mining platform they look good on paper but is in my experience not fun maintaining. Did anyone try to run Windows 10 on the 580 with success?
I haven't tried more than 9. I have one box that doesn't have the addin pcie board so I tried to use the 6th 8x PCIe Connector that is located on the SPI board that is supposed to be for a dual 10gb adapter so I could have 6 1080s going in it. Well when I powered on I heard a pop and I'm currently down one server awaiting a new SPI board.
You can run Win10 on the 580 if you only want 2 procs recognized.
In my experience, Win10 and Server 2016 act identical on these servers.
Sooo beat. I was up until 3:30AM last night trying to finish my migration. I'm currently back to 90% operational.