00:04This is my Chia farm and I'm sorry to say it's time to shut it down.
00:11My Chia farm. I started creating this around mid-2021 I believe. It's all powered connected via USB.
00:31I have it labeled internal external well internal and then there are five more ports five more
00:40controllers back here one two three four five Feb smart brand and so I started just with when
00:53Chia was about thirty dollars a share and everybody was reaping about it and so I wanted to join
00:59in and so I thought I was just going to plot with hard drive plots no SSD no RAM and
01:08later
01:08came all the fancy RAM plotters GP plotters but I never did any of that so I bought about
01:15three of these less than this less powerful than this but three HP or Dell Skylakes locally off of Craigslist
01:25like I-5 6600 and I just plotted with these subrent enclosures I would connect to these enclosures and
01:38two of these dual bays and so I would be plotting four instances at a time on a quad core
01:45and that
01:46worked out pretty well for CPU usage. I saw four four drives plotting at the same time and it would
01:53save
01:53to one drive and when that filled up I would just swap over a blank drive and continue using the
01:58same
01:59drives for plotting and that's how I created this whole entire farm well actually the whole first portion
02:10so these are all connected to a USB and you'll know that the 127 theoretical device limit per controller
02:21and the depth allowance you know seven deep or whatever it is even if you account for hubs that
02:30are more than four ports at being two devices and all the extra devices they may become
02:38and the bays might be more than one device it's still it's more finicky than that even high quality
02:46high quality FebSmart FEB SMART controllers it's still nope so what I had to do is each channel or so
03:00if I follow this back I would have one powered hub let me just get some flashlight is there a
03:10flashlight
03:13no I'll show them the exposure standby so the best solution I found was to for each controller for each
03:26channel I would get one powered hub and then I would use three seven port or eight port hubs connected
03:35to this to
03:36each one such as it's hard to tell okay so that's a powered one that's a powered one
03:47and then like you have this it is unpowered I think unpowered now I need to use extension cords
04:04well I was going to keep on plotting this until um my system stopped
04:16stopped farming because of the uh the database for the chia was on a neatac ssd n-e-t-a
04:23-c which is a crappy
04:25very crappy brand so much so that it doesn't even do any garbage collection so even though the drive
04:30only had it about 20 terabytes of writes to it it started having bad sectors a few of them but
04:36more than that it silently corrupted the chia database and so at that point along with drives being
04:45uh you know four times more expensive than they were when I bought these drives it's time to sell I
04:52think
04:56so you know it's interesting on my old uh galaxy s9 I could turn on and off the flash while
05:04taking video but
05:05the pixel 10a I have to stop the video to flash there is no control don't let's take a picture
05:18an actual flashlight so the first uh portion I would all I would do it with about three sff pcs
05:27along
05:28with a toshiba haswell and alienware haswell all plotting via hard drive and I was determined to
05:34even though it wasn't the fastest to just do it old school without wearing out an ssd and so I
05:41had
05:41this running for quite some time it took a long time to figure out I needed powered hubs to to
05:49to um power three or four unpowered hubs per channel in the limit and I would keep on expanding I
05:57started along the back wall and kept on going this way as such and I would kind of at the
06:06beginning of
06:06my project I would my huge endeavor I would you know I would keep on adding drives add another
06:12channel and then like a whole section would drop out and then I back off one okay it's stable now
06:19let's start another channel but then there were also some other weird circumstances I believe so
06:24anyway um it's a wonder this in its entirety is about just shy I believe of one pibby byte probably
06:34a bit
06:34over one petabyte but they're neither all online so it wouldn't show up but at least it was showing
06:42consistently 900 ish pibby bytes or tippy bytes 0.9 0.9 pibby bytes and so on the second half
06:55version two I added these externals uh 12 terabyte my books and 12 terabyte elements
07:06usb3 uh no failures from these as far as I can tell uh and I also added some 16 terabyte
07:14exos
07:14so you get exos drives these are these run very cool much cooler than the uh four terabyte uh western
07:23digital
07:27enterprise drives let's check one out and 4000 fyyz
07:37there it's on landscape so these run pretty hot uh they're quite reliable so my intention is to
07:46uh sell as many of these I can I will do a smart reading capture do a full write test
07:54like a kill
07:55disk a wipe zero wipe and then look at the smart again so I have a bunch of these I
08:01have some
08:01um the ones the more rounded edges are three terabytes and I think I have a mix of four terabyte
08:09western digital and four terabyte seagates not sure but a lot of these I'll sell for cheap
08:15and only sell if they're completely um in good health I won't sell any that aren't
08:23these exos drives they are a premium modern enterprise drive but they are for sale as well
08:30anybody need some plug strips
08:35I just looked at the dust here yep that's what'll happen
08:43actually as I recall I think I may have been doing five instances on quad core
08:49and three or four on the dual core has well anyway um plotting this was not original the
08:57og plots was not very cpu intensive so especially um if you're plotting via hard drive it would
09:03just thrash the drive and finish eventually
09:08I'm going so oh by the way I have some I did uh lose a few um c gates eight
09:20terabytes smr externals
09:23so cooling I have three uh not so reliable walmart walmart um fans here one two three
09:36and they're just all blowing through out the back I know this is not ideal this orientation it should
09:43ideally be like a heat sink be like this instead of like this but it is what it is
09:48the drive stay reasonably in spec uh during summer I've had very few failures uh just
09:58a few of these type four terabyte drive failures although again not all show up
10:05uh via the windows machine so whenever I have to start this up there's a process so obviously you
10:13have to stagger the power spin up so you don't blow the circuit and you have to wait until windows
10:20is logged on uh otherwise uh well it will not finish locking on it will uh halt mid boot it
10:31will just
10:32freeze up not know what to do and then you leave it alone for maybe an hour
10:38and then eventually this uh you know I mapped the drives instead of to drive letters because you
10:44only have 26 even though I might start doing a a a b a c I don't know I would
10:49uh
10:53shea plot paths I would I mapped it all to this folder and these would be the capacities and I
11:02would know
11:06if it was uh registering or not but anyway it's uh it's a wonder how reliable this is everybody
11:12you know the professionals oh they're using evergreens you know with the little raspberry
11:17pies in them uh oh I'm going to use rack mount stuff I'm going to use um new enterprise drives
11:23and
11:24server racks and linux and all this and I did this I you know how much I want I have
11:30about 400 xch
11:32which is worth maybe um one grand so big loss but that's what uh doing it yourself and just
11:43determination will do for you uh so I could get this back up and running I could re I was
11:51trying to re uh
11:52generate the database but it kind of froze up so I might try again once client 3.0 comes out
11:59with the uh
12:01the plot 2.0 format I'll see if it is able to rebuild but in the meantime I am wanting
12:08to actually just
12:09sell these drives for a good price I mean good for me price not so good for the buyer unfortunately
12:17um I mean the enterprise drives um I will let go you know 30 bucks each or 25 bucks each
12:35and if you're a home labor that wants to learn you just need some of these drives for learning
12:39hey almost free I think I'll if you're local I'll just let you have some so I have a bunch
12:44of hardware
12:45here and I wanted to document this farm before I started selling off because I toiled a long time to
12:55get this working
13:01so I had a fan on this outlet I had a little mishap
13:06but I am replacing them with uh leviton
13:12leviton 8300 yeah
13:16these are hospital grade I recommend these you have a little green dot there
13:20imprinted hospital grid outlets um
13:24they um provide very superior uh contact with the leads of the plug and very secure connection
13:34they're uh they're a must-have if you're a crypto home crypto miner citizen scientist
13:40uh marijuana shed stuff anything with 120 volts
13:45now this is my farm let me know if you have any questions and so the sabrents
13:53let me get a better picture of this
14:05I have the original box for all of these
14:11and and also the externals the original box
14:15for all of the my books and elements
14:20yes thank you
14:22to hear my exos drive spin up
14:25pop
14:44one of them beaked hold on a second
14:51oh they're spinning down
15:01all right
15:01all right let's do it again
15:08so
15:12so
15:36mm they'll start blinking
15:40blinking
15:41blinking green means uh standby mode so the
15:44these dual bays do have power saving in mind
15:47why aren't these blinking
15:50you can do it
15:53oh it's because this hub is one of the hubs is plugged in not to the computer but they have
15:59power
15:59maybe it's confusing
16:02these drives are awesome they'll probably last 150 000 hours or more
16:08the good thing about helium drives is they don't have a filter for the air pressure equalization so if
16:14they're in a dirty environment uh it's hermetically sealed so especially for smokers or whatever not
16:22that they would need this necessarily but it shouldn't actually affect the drives
16:27that's a plus for them along with the cooling cooler uh lower power consumption due to less internal
16:35resistance
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