HARD DRIVE Mining? This is getting ridiculous...
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- Published on Mar 27, 2018
- Hard drive mining... could this be the solution to the GPU crisis?...
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It's beautiful. Me and my 100 TBs approve.
no dumb segwat? shame on you
Power supply mining
Do NOT drop
Might be OK if you could run all the hardware via a solar panel or a wind turbine but I suspect if you're paying for electricity in the conventional way then your losing money hand over fist.
Can it run minecraft? 😅
i Russia делай видео с русскими субтитрами пожалуйста :-D :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
I miss 16:9
In the thanks for watching, Maxine's name is one extra space compared to all the other names, and that bugs me more than it should.
my 3 1tb hdds from samsung from 2008 are still in everyday use.
i bought them, when they were cheap. 50€ each.
then for a long while, hdd prices were super high. like 6 years or so after i bought mine.
then i got a gtx1060, sold it short after. and boom mining craze happened.
i bought it for 268€, sold it for 230€ and a week later it was traded for like 300+€
Sounds like a vacuum
I need to know someone at 45drives... fuck they love giving shit away.
Hi is it just me or does anyone else feel like the Samsung s10 is a crap phone
i have a spare Dell Power Edge 2970... could i use it for anything interesting?
Need a coin to kick start, please help, thanks. BURST-8Y6R-2M58-F3RF-8QN8H
i have already earned 0.05 from many faucet
so now hard drives are going to be 500 percent more expensive. wow, miners really are cancer for pc builders aren't they.
you should teach your guys to bend att the knees when lifting and lowering a heavy load you did well but your guys trying to break there backs they must want workmans comp.
A bit late here but this was so funny .. Linus in the near future, your back's gonna need some SSD TLC at the rate of ridiculous things you are doing! LOL
Would you sell me 2 1tb hard drives
100 bucks a month at 150 for power 😂
_"I've got literally boxes of old hard drives ... I don't want to throw them away ... that would be a waste."_
And then you say...
_"But I wouldn't trust them with any important data because they're old hard drives."_
Then it's not a waste to dispose of them.
I'll bet you got your money's worth out of them through their use over several years and you're right not to trust them when you know they're near the end of their expected service life.
Time for them to be recycled.
NO DONT LET THEM FUCK UP THE HARD DRIVE MARKET TOO JESUS
now soon hard drives will become expensive and eventually become garbage
Give me hdd bro
Get an elevator
A Power input to the Setup would have been nice
Mining with a Power supply or ca case
Can my PS4 mine BTC?
Wait this was a thing? Lmao
I hate you, please die
06:12 LOL
Minus electricity, what are we talking net profit?
Can't wait for ram mining, keyboard mining, sound card mining and 4k 144Hz monitor mining. In 10 years a brand new computer should cost 5k USD.
but it runs gta five bro? LOL
sadly burst is mostly dead.
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i was skeptical about this few weeks ago. Thank God i tried it out
I started trading with $15,000 with a positive mindset and today I have made up to $33,000 this is really mind blowing.
true,i hesitated but only took a leap of faith and it paid off
+Radster 21556 ..she is a very principled and organised woman…..rewrite your mail, make it sound more official, reasonable and be patient she will definitely get back to you
Ifixit! Have a set. It's awesome.
OMG! That's the most powerful system that I've ever seen.
Ssd mining
Change your mic so you can stop half digging it out of your pocket every 5 seconds, Linus.
Video starts here: 8:58
Everything before that is pointless nerdgasm about the size of his drives.
After disks: Mining with a 2 cm circuit board
Who else hates miners? Like if you already have the stuff and it’s throw it away or mine with it, cool do that it’s not bothering me, but the second you buy 20 GPUs or 100 HDDs, or whatever else you can mine with, I hope you rot in the nether, while I play Minecraft.
You wont mine with a SD card!
His voice is annoying AF to me.
I have 2000 GPUs what can I do with them?
MINING CHIKENS AND GET EGGS..THATS THE WAY TO GO....NO ELECTRIC BILL..NO COOLING...NO HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE
SO WHY YOU NEED THAT AMOUNT OF STORAGE ...AS YOU CAN UPLOAD YOUR VIDEOS TO TheXvid AND EVEN GET PAID FOR THAT
Can I run this on my own hard drive that stores my data?
Man is this over my head...!
Burst coin mining . Ok. I like pound coin mining .
Send my one of hard Drives.My are almost Dead
linus has more RAM than I do storage ;-(
No rgb?
"If your **** was correlated with your server, mine would be a lot bigger then it currently is."
Linus, i have an EXABYTE of storage.
So when can I start mining using chinese kids?
cheaper and easier to go panning for gold, lol. Probably make more, too.
I rather go fishin....
Can i trust this one ?
Next: Mining with RAM sticks
00:16 "aS LoW As SEvEn gRanDS"
Miners don,t even know what htey are doing. Sure it's gonna tell you in the agreement you mine for for power to give to x super computer calculating stuff for hard stuff(in my own words). But in fact, they are feeding a quantum AI. The blockchain is the AI brain. Don't believe me? Go look at what a blockchain look like(explained with at least 1 graphic) then go look at quantum D-wave computing explanation videos. You should end up seeing an almost perfect copy of the blockchain mechanic.
No way, they want to overprice hard drives
*RELATIVELY SPEAKING*
I feel like I'm an idiot that watched the whole vid. :))
Linus tech tips is the place I go to look the next most outrageously crazy but cool tech trends, boy that storinator is a beast. Thanks for always been at the edge of stuff.
keyboard and mouse mining
What's with all the major overkill with everything you do. Are you lacking in some area of your life. Not everyone has the sort of money you seem to waste at doing a project, we mere mortals usually run a bog standard PC for normal everyday jobs and would like to do a little extra like this HDD mining. The question is. Can we do it and can we make any money doing so without having to take out a bank loan?
NO ONE is commenting about Linus's storinator d!ck joke? Am I the only one that burst out laughing at that left fielder?
"LOOK AT THIS THING! I mean if the size of your d*ck would be correlated with the size of your storage server mine would be a lot bigger than it really is." *someone bursts out laughing in the background*
Wait, no I'm not 😁. At least the person in the background there had the same reaction. I wonder what shenanigans led to this....!
you should sell your old hard drives. I would buy them. A project i'm working on wants hard drives that are failing or close to failing
Time to fill my 20tb worth of *Seagate* Hard drives..
Oh no, i already can see hard drives prices rise
bit mining what ever it is you call that is stupid. you will jack up your power bill you do want to pay $5000.00 on your power bill only to one that sounds stupid. play it smart. Do what smart people do buy gild bricks . keep buying gold bricks buy silver bricks you buy it you save it 20 years down the road you need to sell it. fine sell it. it goes up in value in time.
Get those drives to power the SafeNetwork
Next usb mining keep in mind thunderbolt mines faster
I'm same way about hdd's and ssd's I rather keep them all instead of letting them go.
I will ONLY watch your free content. It isnt like you are poor and needy!
Next : Mining with a thumb drive
Don't throw away your extra gear. Just send em to me. I'll pay for shipping
I wonder what will happen with crypto stuff when some lunatic bomb us with EMP bombs and all our electronics dies.
The power companies just love the idiots mining fake money while they rake in the real money lol.
i mine with my thermal paste!!
You're going bald buddy
thank you
If you have stuff on a hardrive and take it out of the PC will it still have all its data???
Then if you put the hardrive into another PC will it have all the data and show it on the screen??????????
Hey baby, send drives 😘
can we get another update brother
ha! little dick linus
Does it even offset the power cost?
I want a game with so many textures that all those in SSD are needed. Possibly something to do with Euclidean sparse-voxel octrees, or a different type of videocard that just combines objects from the harddrive into frames onscreen. You might need RAID striping with 60 SSDs for the kind of throughput I want. Now that I think about it, you don't even need that to fill 16k displays at 240hz. But it's fun to think about anyway.
Ok, I thought you were dumpster-diving for hard drives that might have bitcoins on them. This makes sense too.
I mine coins with my USB ports! Everytime I get a USB stick the wrong way round: KA-CHING
I've found many a discarded HDD's at the college e-waste dropoff. 65% of them contained homemade Pr0n. On a consistent basis.
Burstcoin? More like Bustcoin, right?
..Guys?
Looks expensive, but the bigger question is - will it flush?
Welcome to my hard drive
So the result is brust coin mining is not profitable at all compared to the other mining machine cost keeping in mind the electricity cost !
The whole concept behind this currency really emphasizes the value we place in absolutely nothing.
This profit sounds like solar power return in profit🥴zero . But you can say your great 👍 like Democrat’s do !
This video is brought to u by a small skinny over confident smart ass 🥴 that never worked a day in his life .what a waste of time . And it’s 45 not 48 💩head