7th of June

New version of Chia released
Its 1.1.7 and according to the release notes it contains just one bug fix for an issue with sqlite3. I've updated my single node to it.


Plotter issues
I kept getting lock-ups when running 2 plots at a time so down-graded the memory back to 16GB and pulled out the possibly dud SAS disk. I can now run one plot at a time on the one remaining SAS disk, but at least they run to completion now. Plot time is around 12 hours. According to the status screen its going to take me 20 years to earn any Chia 😞


New Farmer parts
In other news I've ordered a Fractal Design Meshify 2 computer case, along with a 500 watt power supply. I'm going to put one of my old i3 motherboards in it and use it as a storage server/farmer. I have ECC memory I can use, the SAS controller card and cables to plug into SATA drives and 7 x WD Red 8TB hard disks.

None of the computer stores I use seem to have the "Universal drive brackets" that Fractal Design use, so I will have to contact them directly to try and get them.

There is a lot of talk about the Silverstone CS380 case (pictured below) but I think the side-mounted fans were wrong and I don't need hot-swap capability. For those that don't know it holds 8 drives in the front which are hot-swappable. It costs the same as the Meshify 2.



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