For small Chia farmers and plotters doing their work on a single system, life is pretty easy, even if the Chia lotto gods are unkind. But as your plotter cranks along, many are finding it’s optimal to run separate plotting and farming rigs. Taken a step further, as we’ve found in our lab, it’s important

HP has refreshed its ZBook line of workstations. This includes an entry-level workstation, the HP ZBook Power G8. The company is referring it to the most affordable mobile workstation (though this may lay in the eyes of the user, their budget, and what they consider a workstation). Though the budget model, the HP ZBook Power

HP has refreshed its ZBook line of workstations. Of those announced, is the HP ZBook Studio G8 billed as the most powerful mobile workstation of its size. The Studio is aimed at being balanced between mobility and performance, obviously, if the highest performance is the goal, there are a lot of desktop options out there.

Chia farming is a less intensive task when trying to get in on the latest crypto craze. While Chia plotting requires an SSD for optimal performance, farming on the other hand thrives on hard drives and can run on just about anything. Of course, the Raspberry Pi is the homelabber’s delight, a little unit that

Today we’ll be turning what, at first glance, appears to be a pile of gaming gear, into a DIY NAS build! If you’ve never built a NAS before, or even heard of one, don’t worry; this in-depth guide will walk you through the ins and outs of NAS. We’ll start by covering off on what

We’ve written prior about Chia plot migration and how best to handle that move when running separate plotting and farming rigs. It just so happens that Icy Dock sent us over a new device that may make this process easier and faster for anyone wanting to access U.2 NVMe SSDs on any system with a

There are a lot of ways to farm Chia as it is highly dependent on flash storage and bulk HDD storage, not high-end GPUs and CPUs. We’ve looked at the best budget rig for plotting Chia and the top cheap SSDs for Chia plotting. Farming Chia specifically is less resource-intensive and has people searching for

Using an SSD for Chia plotting is ideal, but even with no moving parts, SSDs can get hot. This is especially true when considering the Chia plotting workload is almost entirely write-centric. In a server, drive cooling is native and designed to meet the needs of an SSD. For most PC rigs though, cooling might

One of the most frustrating parts of plotting and farming Chia is the aspect of keeping synchronized. When your node first comes online, there’s a Chia sync process that makes your node aware of others and other nodes aware of you. If you have another known node IP address, that can help speed your sync,