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I can't comment on your specific motherboard but know that most consumer boards won't have more than 2 USB headers. See, the header is the hardware part that let's the USB ports communicate data to the CPU and because most people aren't populating all their USB ports, manufacters don't typically include more than a few.

Now, each header or channel has a maximum throughput of 6gb/s. In practice this is lower close to 5gb/s meaning a typical real world cap of about 500mb/s of data access. Why are these numbers wacky like this, I don't know. But in an ideal setup you want to see hd read speeds around 100mb/s and up. Hence the "4 per header" rule. So as is, I'd expect you to be able to connect 8 to 12 drives to that particular board before you start seeing bottlenecking. This is incredibly lame but luckily the is a solution. One of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00HJZEA2S/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522184600&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=startech+usb+3.0 that, is a pcie card that occupies a x4 or larger slot giving you an additional 4 USB headers. So that card, or something like it that has DEDICATED controllers/headers will give you the ability to connect 4 drives per controller. Just be wary if you buy something cheaper because it probably doesn't have multiple controllers/headers.

So let's say for example you bought the card I recommend and your motherboard has 3 controllers/headers. That let's you connect up to 28 drives. At that point you're read speeds will suffer simply due to processing power, but that's okay because upgrading GPUs and switching to jminer or compiling creep to run GPU tasks will probably put you back to good. Probably. I can't confirm because I haven't tested jminer yet and compiling creep isn't something I'm versed well enough to do.

Cryptoguru pools are great from what I understand, but realistically and pool listed here https://www.ecomine.earth/burstpools/ that is supporting Dymaxion is worth checking out. Just pick one that looks like it'll line up with your intentions and how much weight you're willing to put towards luck forging blocks. I picked a 0/100 pool because I didn't see myself going above 150ish TB and that's what I personally think the low cutoff is currently to mine at like a 50/50 pool and not feel like I'm missing out on getting paid. Your mileage will vary.

Finally turboplotter. So I didn't start plotting with it, started with xplotter in qbundle, but it is what I finished with. Once you have your account numeric ID entered it's pretty mindless until it's done. It should generate the first set of plots without any additional input but once that drive is done, you point turboplotter at the plot with the highest nonce count and tell it to start on the next drive. This way you avoid potentially overlapping plots, hurting your mining performance.

Really depends on what your end goal looks like and how much connectivity you need. Personally in an attempt to save as much $ as I can I would probably look for a basic desktop system with at least 6 on board sata ports and lots of usb 3.0 or better connectivity. The ones that have a seperate usb 3.1 controller are great because you get 2 controllers to route traffic through. You can also add more sata or usb connections using the available PCI-E slots.

For drives I'd just buy a boat load of the Seagate 8tb externals. Some can be cracked open and plugged into your sata ports and the rest can be plugged into whatever USB ports you have. If you buy some of the ones that have the built in USB hub it's ussualy only a couple of dollars more and makes it easy to daisy chain 2 drives onto each of the hub drives giving you 3 drives per USB port. You could chain more but I find 3 to be a good number per port to avoid too many bottlenecks. For powering all of my adapters I use a 1 to 4 plug splitter like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K3ADZ76 with 4 3 way splitters like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ALSMFO0 Let's me plug in 12 drives without taking up a bunch of outlets. This worked a lot better for me than trying to run multiple drives from a single larger power brick.

Sata to 2.1mm DC cables

DC 2.1 to 2.5mm adapters

I bought these cables, but realized they are the small size, like for some small appliances or cameras. Found these adapters and they work like a charm plugged into my external drives!

Honestly, this was my best purchase for my burstcoin rig.

This one reads 15 8TB drives for me in 36 seconds on Jminer. It has a Molex connection but seems to work pretty well without additional power. 3 powered hubs attached.

4 Port PCI Express (PCIe) SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Card Adapter w/ 4 Dedicated 5Gbps Channels - UASP - SATA / LP4 Power https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HJZEA2S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_u5W5uiQEv2aZ6

Hey bro thanks for reply!
Sorry I forgot to mention my main PC has Motherboard Asus Maximus VII Gene with 4 x USB 3.0 also there are 2 x USB 3.0 on the case so in total 6 x USB 3.0


> Common wisdom says you can connect 4 drives per header before you start experiencing any real performance dips.

If I was to purchase the following item:- (Anker 4-Port USB 3.0 Ultra Slim Data Hub)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-4-Port-Ultra-Drives-Devices/dp/B00Y25XFGK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522181116&sr=8-1&keywords=usb+3.0+4+hub

Does that mean I can attach 4 external hard drives on each of the available ports on PC, so in total 6x4=24 hard drives? If yes, would that affect any performance?

When it comes to Pool I found out about: https://burst.cryptoguru.org/ not sure if that is any good?


Also when using Turbo Plotter when I have multiple HD's does it auto detect "nonce" or does it need to be done manually?

Probably tons of ways. After reading tschoev's comment about "usb 3.0 hub plus sata-to-usb3.0 adapters" I went on a little search for hard drive racks and found this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LF40KE/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

It can stack and holds 5 drives each, so basically you can stack up 2 sets of 3 on your desk. Something to note is you need to hook the hard drives up to a Power supply so make a spot to safely set that down near by. http://usb.brando.com/hdd-storage-tower-5-bay-_p00529c044d15.html Here are some better pictures to give you an idea.

I am currently using external hard drives but maybe in the future I might switch to this, see if i can get some cheap 8TB's as well.

It isn't the hubs fault, it's mostly the USB consortium lying about the real world practical throughput of their technology for marketing purposes. Tom's HW has a good technical writeup on it, it's from 2012 but most of it still applies: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/usb-3-uas-turbo,3215.html

Ultimately you want no more than 3 drives per USB controller. PCI-e cards like this are ideal, as they contain 4 separate buses (allowing 12 total drives at ~120 MB speeds) https://www.amazon.com/Express-SuperSpeed-Adapter-Dedicated-Channels/dp/B00HJZEA2S/ref=sr_1_1

I use 1 of these with 2x 4 port versions.

Ableconn PEX10-SAT 10 Port SATA 6G PCI Express Host Adapter Card - AHCI 6 Gbps SATA III Low Profile PCIe 2.0 Expansion Card https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0177GBY0Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_7ZofAYcm1fHai

So, 25 total data ports including the motherboard, also running 2 Vegas for other coins. I'm getting about 600MB/s read rate with 3 cores on my i3.

The IO crest version is a POS and I returned it.