I am not the expert but I don't think HDD's will ever disappear. Not unless they make SSD's as durable as HDD's and cheaper. I probably won't wear out a SSD in my life time but the risk is there. (for now) And there is also HDD's being cheaper than SSD's for per gb/$

Side note: I recently bought a WD 1tb external usb3.0 hdd and it is as fast as (maybe even faster) the first gen SSD's. (tested with "HD tune" software, +200mb r&w/sec) HDD's are still developing technologically.

Yeah thats awesome! 

Pictures?

maybe this should be in the ALTCOINS section ?
nice setups

Here's an update on my gear after few changes.
I currently have:
-Antminer S9 14.1Th/s (in the soundproof cabinet)
-Antminer S9 12.9Th/s (in the soundproof cabinet)
-Antminer S9 11.85Th/s
-Antminer S9 9.8Th/s (with the Enermax PSU)
-Antminer S7-LN 2.3Th/s  (modded by sidehack)

altcoin mining gear: 4x Baikal Mini Miner 150Mh/s (at the bottom of the shelf)

(Click for bigger picture)

I think you think you're being clever playing devil's advocate, but you either can't follow logic or you don't understand its definition.
Bitcoin Forum > Alternate cryptocurrencies > Altcoin Discussion
is clearly the correct forum for all Altcoin topics.

whoops, i mis-typed my comment.

I meant that mining would physcically CENTRALIZE, but that these central datacenters could be owned by an increasingly decrentralised base of investors/hosters.

(for example, greatnorthdata might have several megawatts in a single facility, but the hardware is owned/controlled by several dozen (several hundred in future perhaps) different miners

I miss all the home medium scale Bitcoin miners!

This is as good as I have seen on Youtube,I have bookmarked this thread and this will be my guide when I start setting up my rigs,but I'm not looking to mine Bitcoin but rather altcoins that can yield good profit .

I think you're right - but i saw that coming for a while, ever since the antminer S1 made compact, stackable miners a possibility. Its always been profitable where the power and overhead costs are cheap, and basic rules of industry dictate that mega-____ can almost always beat mom&pop-_____'s profit margins. The world of digital, funible assets is a capitalist/industrialist's wetdream, and i suspect all mining will physically decentralize while selling shares/hosting that creates better decentralisation of mining revenue/coin-creation

Some time a go in a bitcoin mining topic i wrote: "i mine Bitcoin and Peercoin whit this and that antminer".
Mikestang directly (read in seconds) policed me, telling me Peercoin can not be spoken in the bitcoin section.
It felt like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKc5X7HCgzc
Happy i am still alive.

I have been getting confused.  Will I get ostracized if I post a non bitcoin setup in here?  I have been working hard to get my setup up and going and want to share it

Jesus christ would you get over it?  It was f'ing MONTHS ago and I said something like twice, and a moderator supported what I said.  Do you know why?  Because I was right.  Go bang your head against a wall or something.

I've ignored you now, tired of your harrassment.

He's just all about the D.R.A.M.A , His DRAMA.

I bought r9-270 cards back in litecoin's last pre-asic hurrah for ~$250ea and they have probably mined about $350/ea after electricity costs to this day, with frequent (or automatic) conversion to bitcoin (and/or withdrawn to pay bills), and still worth ~$100/ea making almost $1/day

I bought gtx1070 cards in september for LBRY at about $680cad each and mined almost $200/ea within the first month. by now, theyve probably made about $500/ea after power costs and at daily conversion. they are still worth $400/ea and mining $>2/day

I bought rx470 cards about 3 months ago at $300cad/ea, and probably made about $120/ea after power costs so far. the cards are still worth ~$220 and mining $1.50/day


between the rx470 and gtx1070 cards i put about $2500 into hardware over the last 6 months, and have returned ~$700. nicehash estimates my yearly profit at around $2400-3600 depending on the always-fluctuating altcoin markets.  So over the 2-3yr lifespan it should make a healthy (50%+ profit) quite easily - and acts as a bit of a hobby. It can easily take a few days to setup, and an hour or two every week to deal with updates and fixing errors

oh, and the gtx1070 cards have SLI inside my gaming PC. so it makes for great gaming

I kinda like them due to reminding me of past, technically they are mining rigs but your right they are altcoin at this point.  But if we just include asics we are kinda limited.

Things I liked of GPU is they are all so different.  Now day's most are same machines different layout of miners depending on size... but miners are all pretty much the same.

Its funny how when this thread was created, all we were seeing were photos of GPU rigs, then photos of ASICs, and now we are back to photos of GPU rigs.

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