Computer without hard drive, only from usb drive?
Im building a litecoin rig, i really dont need any programs or any other thing thant a program mining coins
so, would it be possible to build the rig without a hard drive, running 24 hours from a pen drive connected to an usb port??
so, would it be possible to build the rig without a hard drive, running 24 hours from a pen drive connected to an usb port??
I see no reason as to why you could not do this.
Agree.
What mining software? This would probably be easier with one of the Live Linux distros, but you could probably mod something like BartPE to do it.
BartPE
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
You also might want to make a stack of them while you are at it. Pen drives probably will not have a long life span running 24/7, like that.
What mining software? This would probably be easier with one of the Live Linux distros, but you could probably mod something like BartPE to do it.
BartPE
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
You also might want to make a stack of them while you are at it. Pen drives probably will not have a long life span running 24/7, like that.
Very common for VMware servers to just have USB sticks or SD cards with the OS on and no hard disks.
How much storage space and computing capacity do you need?
Consider using a Linux-based router, possibly with custom firmware.
Depending on where you live, however, electricity needed may be more expensive than a virtual host which has guaranteed uptime, bandwidth and backup. In my place a 30W rig consumes about 3 USD a month, sufficient for an entry level virtual webhosting service. A full VM will of course be more expensive.
Consider using a Linux-based router, possibly with custom firmware.
Depending on where you live, however, electricity needed may be more expensive than a virtual host which has guaranteed uptime, bandwidth and backup. In my place a 30W rig consumes about 3 USD a month, sufficient for an entry level virtual webhosting service. A full VM will of course be more expensive.
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I need minimal space just for a linux distro were to run cgminer mining with my 3 GPUs
What i fear the most is reboots as i won't have direct access to this computer, it will be in another building a few kilometers away so i will work remotely mostly.
will i be better off using windows?
What i fear the most is reboots as i won't have direct access to this computer, it will be in another building a few kilometers away so i will work remotely mostly.
will i be better off using windows?
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The video cards i am using are a couple of Vapor-X r9 280x and a Gigabyte radeon r9 290
I will try to see if it works, i still have to configuire many things :)
I will try to see if it works, i still have to configuire many things :)
Thank you much. : )