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Greetings everyone the hard drive gods have decended upon you with offerings of fortune and wisdom!
Just to help you down the road to success I have a few tools for you to maintain peak efficiency that I will not need to share links to but you can google them.

Firstly, if you find your miner is starting or well into slowing down it might be time to optimise with the burst optimiser available on this forum.
If you cannot find time to opimise with the plot optimiser you should be able to increase your miners memory buffer up to 1 gigabyte which will help speed up a little so you can plan when to optimise. Generally you can take of plots off a multi plot mining operation (per drive basis) to optimise them and then reintroduce them back to your plot collection.

Whats the biggest problem when plotting? well if your not using xplotter then the answer is: FRAGMENTATION!
YES THATS RIGHT! when you plot to a drive it can be fragmented and slow down.
unless of course you use a native linux partition.
Windows has a built in defragmenter but a faster one called puran defrag can defrag it for you.
To speed up to a contiguous plot and you have another hard drive that your plot can fit into a handy freeware tool called FastCopy has a customiseable cache to it. Simply put as much free ram into it as you can and then transfer the plot from drive to drive will end in a perfectly contiguous plot. Much faster than defragging especially an external drive; which are slower to plot and defrag.
Every quartly year, it is a good idea to refresh your drives magnetic surface. There is a tool on the same puran website as the above mentioned defragmenter that does the job nicely within a windows schedule that is fully automatic and doesnt affect mining efficiency. Basically it maintains and strenghens your drives magnetic pickup of written data to allow faster reading.

Advanced Tip: There is a feature set in your computers hardware configuration accessible on power on. It is called the system BIOS (Basic Input Ooutput System) Within there are certain menus of hardware configuration. It is safe to look at but if you see ANY feature called "spread spectrum" please switch it off. It is used to suppress E.M.I emmissions but also can seriously hamper efficiency in mining / plotting operations. Switch it off and if any problems arise from your surrounding electronics you can switch it back on. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PERSONS USING MEDICAL OR PACEMAKER TECHNOLOGIES.

the included CPU/AVX miner can cache up to 1 gigabyte of read plot for the cpu this can be adjusted from its default to a more optimised size for faster cpu's. Personally I just leave it to 1 gb

Live long and prosper and may the burst be with you!

I may have found the solution to this problem. When the low disc space message appears, open the Action Center (last icon in the taskbar next to the clock). Right click on the low disc space notification and you can click "hide notifications from this app." I just did this and now I'm waiting to see if I get the pop-up again. Fingers crossed that this will solve the problem.

they're so expensive they should be gold coated I mean they're the price of one of these Enterprise class things It should have warp 9 considering its space age design the corners on it. If we're lucky it'll be on ebay for the price of new 8TB models in next 5 10 years.

you just need to install windows 64 bit version by the looks of your problem and usually 32 and 64 bit share the same license per PC so you should not need to pay for it. Software here uses 64 bit and its more efficient, more data throughput and uses less energy to compute; leading to longer lifespan and less heat. There is a few miners here in 32bit but i haven't seen a plotter. Personally i think it'd be so slow anyhow.

one day we'll all be driving in limo's people will say "why you so successful" we can say something like "from little things big things grow" or "we were just BURSTing to get rich" lol

From some experienced miners I have the following tips:

-90 TB plus hard drive space
-24 hours deadline limit

The 24 hour deadline ensures the pools receive an acceptable deadline than rejecting them.
90tb is the recommended minimum storage capacity but isn't mandatory.
Allowing the miner to do any deadline will ultimately chew up bandwidth and generate a lot of wasted deadlines.
It is important to keep miners in sync with time only a matter of a few seconds can cause miners to miss deadlines. There are several tools that do it most are freeware for personal use.
Anyone with further tips welcome to contribute; including constructive criticism

@haitch i think i speak on behalf of the forum when i say: We Are With You

i dunno if i should laugh or cry!!!!!!!

Surprises me how much help we give but no upvote for it but I don't expect them however I'd sure like to think it builds confidence in my advice.

in your situation i assigned to other pools until that problem stopped with a pool. I think it can be caused by over populated pools or being too far from it.

dammit i missed it

Hello everyone my nickname ZapbuzZ was founded in 1998 when I first found a way online. I like to resort to pop culcture when i write teachings on forums i think its more fun. I have a lot of legacy with computer assembly-scalability, basic networking, i have been around long enough to have used the IBM PC JR JX IBM XT (yuk) Tandy trs80 coco 3 Atari and more .... that dates back to the early 90's. I hope to help everyone i can here. Sometimes I number crunch for Berkley university with [email protected] and [email protected] for science. Live long and prosper and may the burst be with you!

SSD's are great storage devices and prices have come down significantly since their first introduction.
Sure one or two are great for gaming and plotting your disks however .....

A typical SSD consumes 1 AMP of power and many use the 5 volt rail (less power on this rail in general across Power Supply Units than 12 volt)
Mechanical drives use at least 50% less power to run and that rating runs all the way back to 1995.
If your going to stack 10 SSD disks into a tower or rack beware your going to use at least %50 more amperage than mechanical disk drives all on one voltage rail. In some cases you be best off installing a dedicated power supply just for these SSD's especially if they run on 5 volts to reserve power for USB and other functions.
Almost all power supplies have printed power ratings but where wattage is shown than amperage the correct amperage can be calculated remember a technical reference to power supplies is never expect 100% power at all times. A 1000 watt PSU will give a maximum safe average of 800 to 850 watts of power without really heating up. This is due to power line conditions.
There are step down converters to change 12 volts to 5 volts suitable for single and multiple SSD units also power supplies for either 5 volts or 12 volts that can come with up to 60 amps (and typically sold as LED strip power units significantly cheaper than 1200 watt PC PSU's)
From my own testing, I ran several SSD together the power draw is never constant. It only uses its power rating when its being written to or reading. Hard disks on the other hand have to run at their specified rating all the time. Given the differences with cost and energy usages its probably best to mine with hard disks than SSD's. The larger the hard disk capacity means less power consumption and can last indeftineately. SSD's however have a much higher purchase value and the energy cost of running 3 filecoin miners at once probably would cost more electricity even though seeking times would be improved over mechanical disks. Heat output of SSD's really makes them only suited to plotting.

files can be flagged as suspicious in voluntary by jerks. As for heuristically AV companies have to verify the unknown true nature of the files before removing the flag and usually it takes too long (new wallet versions happen sooner) Therefore your AV provider has most likely been abused. Another explanation is a middleman attack has occurred to you whilst the data is in transit downloading to your PC. (most unlikely) another explanation could be the repository has had its password compromised (almost impossible) My opinion is that it is a false positive I have downloaded it and ran it on Norton, and Avira also Microsoft. No infection. If possible, people could try to un flag it? BTW the wallet can cease to function normally when anti virus and malware software's start a sandbox protection mechanism to isolate a supposedly suspicious program usually to the point of stalling it.

The thing about plotting with laptops, especially old ones, They utilize heat pipe technology as they're designed for travel. The downside is, when the CPU is full duty the cooling system gets much warmer and being mobile processor automatically slows down as to not overheat and damage the device. the mobile i5, i7, AMD etc, all have the same limitation. You are right @Baron to opt for a newer PC but even then HEAT PIPE! good luck however *Additionally
Not everyone has deep pockets for new pc's so in case of an external slow coach its probably cheaper to transfer plots to it from another disk.

i'm a happy investor!