Setting up the CHIA farm for C7 plot compression - hardware, plotting, harvesting and plot movement

In this video I show you in real-time as I alter my farms hardware and configuration to start plotting and harvesting C7 plots.

With the up and coming havening in April/May of next year, it is important to prepare for the reduction in earnings. A rewards boost from this level of compression should ease the pain slightly.

So join me as I 'dip' my toe in the water, find out the water is actually quite warm, and then dive in head first. It's C7 all the way for my NAS units and Disk shelves now.

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Additional Information
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Note that I am using the latest CHIA client V2.1.1 on both my plotter and harvester. I cannot guarantee that using an earlier version will work or look the same.

Hardware
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NVidia RTX 3060ti 8GB (Bladebit GPU Plotting)
NVidia G-Force GT1030 2GB (GPU Harvesting)
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Bladebit CUDA command line activation
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Change the farmer key, contract key and temp1 and temp2 drive references for your own. Noe that the 'n' item currently specifies the creation of a single plot. Adjust this as required. Also not the use of '--disk-128' which allows me to GPU plot on my 128GB system. Put in a '.ps1' file on your desktop.

C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Programs\Chia\resources\app.asar.unpacked\daemon\.\chia plotters bladebit cudaplot -d temp1 -2 temp2 --disk-128 -f farmerkey -c contractkey -n 1 --compress 7
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ROBOCOPY for Windows
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Yes this is a very simple version of what the plow.py Python script does but If you are not creating plots quicker than the time it takes o copy them from your SSD buffer to the hard drive then this may work for you like it did for me. Save into a '.ps1' file on your desktop.

@echo off
:RESTART
TITLE Move Plots from Drive1 to Drive2
echo.
ROBOCOPY drive1 drive2 "plot*.plot" /MOV /R:999 /W:5
echo.
timeout 10 /nobreak
GOTO RESTART
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Chapters
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00:00 Introduction
00:12 Switching on the third ReadyNAS 2100
01:13 Bladebit Plotting with 3060ti
01:50 Harvesting with GT1030 2GB
03:22 CHIA Client Plotting Software
03:46 PowerShell Plotting
07:57 Installing new GT1030
09:01 GPU Harvesting configuration & monitoring
12:07 Plow broken - ROBOCOPY saves the day
14:25 Closing