Chia Compressed Plots – GIGAHORSE 3 – Chia Farm Setup LIVE

The maxmax v3 chart lists c32 plots on a5000 on a max of 0.31 pb farm size.

a. Is that the max farm size using compressed plots (i.e. .93pb equalivalent when farming)
b. Suppose you use the maximum number of plots. Does this mean the GPU is constantly maxed out during farming too?

I have a 3070x Threadripper with 256GB RAM, 3090, running unraid. I'm currently have 0.4 PB uncrompressed Chia plots on 0.5TB of HDDs I have a few TB of SSDs too which I mostly use to run VMa (including two Chia VMs, one for farming, the other for plotting). In theory my setup support SR-IOV. Trying to figure out once I replot can i still the GPU on several VMs simulaniously while farming..Ideally I'd like to replot with Madmax c32 but maybe c31 makes more sense for my multi-purpsoe server.

can the 1070ti be use for farming and plotting for the c30-32?

I stopped farming chia a couple of months ago. I really don't see any sense. I still watch your videos because I was a huge enthusiast of Chia (and like your video ;)) but I just don't see it going anywhere. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. I still have my Chia wallet but I'll probably sell it all in a while. Just look at the trading volume. It's a joke. Unfortunately, crypto is all about marketing and Chia has no marketing at all.

@DigitalSpaceport

Great video… I've been scouring your guides… I've got a modest setup. 18 x 20Tb HDD + 1.5Tb Optane (plotting primary) + 2 x 1Tb Samsung 970 Pro (plotting secondary). I'm just testing out the latest madMax Gigahorse plotter/farmer release (2.1.4 .giga31) with cuda plotter k32_v3. I'm trying out with 2x RTX 3050 8Tb (potato) GPU's. I could swap in 2x RTX 3090's – if the 3050's don't cut it!

I'm wondering what the best filesystem to use for the temporary SSD drives and the final farm? I see it as a competition between: ZFS vs. bcachefs vs. XFS. But you are recommending ext4 tweaked to ext2 performance (by turning off journaling, etc.) I'm not ever using BTRFS for anything – I've had some bad past experiences with this FS – it's a pile of poo IMHO…!!

Should I combine/strip my 18 HDD's or simply JBOD individually as ext4 (I'm testing/ plotting the latter just now – as you seem to just this is performant)? I was thinking of striping all 18 HDDs, with bcachefs, when I update my NAS to Ubuntu 24.04… I presume ZFS might be a bit slow for farming?? (Even with features like COW turned off). Thoughts on this??!!

Thanks for the useful information!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

1:10:41 Warming poultry…the forbidden flex, pre-heating your turkey with A4000s!!!! I think it was @ArigornStrider. He told me about it and I got mine from the same person as you did.

Best thing I've seen this month. Thank you for sharing the hard work!
Did you determine maximum farm size for one RTX3070 after the plot filter changes, C30?