Adventures in Chia

I'm currently up to 825 plots taking an estimated 81.6TB of space. When it cools down a bit I will create more plots. I mentioned in my last post that I had put some larger HDD into the storage server. This week I got some extra memory for it. I tried 2 x 32GB memory sticks, the idea being to bump it to 128GB of memory, but they wouldn't work so I settled for 4 x 16GB sticks which takes it up to 64GB. Its actually 62.7GB available because the iGPU reserves memory for graphics, not that it needs it. The memory upgrade seems to have sped it up a fair bit because asking for a directory listing is noticeably faster. Previously it would do a lot of disk access which I can hear for a few seconds before displaying the directory, now its almost instant. Specs In addtion to the below I also have an external disk enclosure connected via USB 3.0. It holds 4 x 8TB WD Red  HDD. Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Power Supply: Seasonic 550 watt modular Motherboard:

I got around to installing the 16TB drives in the Chia storage server. The 4 x 8TB drives that were in the storage server were swapped out. I had 3 pools originally as: pool1 - 5 x 16TB drives in raidz pool2 - 4 x 8TB drives in raidz pool3 - 4 x 8TB drives in raidz It took about 3 days to move the files off pool3 onto another server and then copy them back. I also spent a day moving a lot of files to pool3 to free up space on pool1. This is what we have now: pool1 - 5 x 16TB drives in raidz pool2 - 4 x 8TB drives in raidz pool3 - 5 x 16TB drives in raidz NAME    SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT pool1  72.8T  5.38T  67.4T        -         -     0%     7%  1.00x    ONLINE  - pool2  29.1T  26.3T  2.82T        -         -     0%    90%  1.00x    ONLINE  - pool3  72.8T  65.5T  7.25T        -         -     0%    90%  1.00x    ONLINE  - That is a theoretical 174TB now. I say theoretical because this is before allowing for drive redundancy (one driv