How long time are you taking to build a plot?

[WMark77]

Hello,

I'm testing Chia on a machine with a 600GB NVMe. It's taking about 2 days per k-32 plot. Does it slow?

Regards,

[tiny0little]

https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/Reference-Plotting-Hardware

[WMark77]

Thank you.

[chiabug]

Two days with NVME seems to be excessive. What OS and what processor? On low end hardware, using regular drives, a 14 - 28 hour plot time is common. My experience is that a NVME in the same hardware only decreases the plot time by about 10 percent.

[WMark77]

It's an emulated arm64 Linux system. I think Chia performance depends on CPUs much more than we guessing.

[aleckzts]

I am using a 500GB HDD WD Black as temporary space and it takes 16h per plot.

[WMark77]

Thanks for replying.

[aleckzts]

I was making 2 plots per disk, now that I have just 1 plot per disk it takes 10-12h to complete.. I think its acceptable

[hibari0614]

I was making 2 plots per disk, now that I have just 1 plot per disk it takes 10-12h to complete.. I think its acceptable

@aleckzts
Would you mind share the specification of HDD (model number) ?

[aleckzts]

For temp I am using WD Black 500Gb WD5000LPSX and WD Purple as final destination.

[hibari0614]

Thanks your kindly reply.

[hibari0614]

Using disk RAID will decrease the plotting time efficiently. I am using a spinning disk RAID with 2x 500GB WD disks (7200 RPM), it takes about 11h for per k=32 plot.

Below is the rig that I uses for plotting.
HP Pavilion DV6 7017-TX:
CPU : Intel i7-3610QM (4c8t, 6M cacha)
RAM : DDR3 - 1600 16 GB (8GB x 2)
Temporary space:
RAID 0: 2x 500GB WD disk (WD5003ABYZ, 7200 RPM), a external storage that link my laptop with USB 3.0

[rtm125]

I plot with 2x 1TB NVME PCI-E 4.0 drives, I plot 6-10 files concurrently and produce about 16-20 a day plotting picture on imgur The files are then moved to one of 3 different storages drives after plotting is completed. I started about 7 days ago now and have 6TB full. The first two days I didn't have the second NVME or the USB drives and was only making about 4-6 plots per day.

I also have my Ethereum miner plotting direct to a USB drive and that thing, if it is lucky gets like 1 plot a day. Horrid piece of junk but has no problems mining Ethereum 24/7 for the past 6 months.

Only been doing this for a week and all have this haunting feeling about this coin being a fresh pump and dump, but we'll see. I hope it isn't. Really wanted to get at least 100TB on the network.