Ok maybe I should think smaller...i have started burst mining with 7x 8TB HDDs and my workstation was busy with plotting them for more than 16 days/24h (one time I had a blue screen after 36h   )
Plotting the same TBs on SMR HDDs with my setup could be easy took more than 42 days! Thats to much time for me and my workstation CPU under 100% fire.

                                                                   
Or you can use GPU miner...

 A few days of lost income at a COST difference that greatly exceeds the lost income is NOT worth it.


 Exception for if you get lucky on buying an external 8TB that turns out to NOT have an Archive - then it's no difference in the cost.



 I'm not stating that the Archive drives are ALWAYS the low cost option - sometimes something else in on sale for less - I'm just stating that AVOIDING them because they take longer to plot makes ZERO sense if the alternatives are more than a couple bucks higher in cost.

You don't HAVE to plot all the drives on the same machine - you can plot on ANY machine as long as you don't duplicate nonce numbers.

1) Open the wallet, press "Plot", press plot with CPU. What can be wrong?
2) Good to hear that, but you are the only one, i think. 8Tb Seagate Archive drives can be plotted much faster with GPU and buffered plotting. But with CPU (or GPU direct) I've tested on several PC - the plotting speed is only about 5-6Mb/s. Any other drive is much faster.

1) Open the wallet, press "Plot", press plot with CPU. What can be wrong?
2) Good to hear that, but you are the only one, i think. 8Tb Seagate Archive drives can be plotted much faster with GPU and buffered plotting. But with CPU (or GPU direct) I've tested on several PC - the plotting speed is only about 5-6Mb/s. Any other drive is much faster.