Hi all,
I'm new to burstcoin. I'm trying to wrap my head around mining with HDD idea. Can someone kindly explain to me:
Mining: once plots are generated and stored on a drive, the miner only has to launch his mining software. It will read through his plots in order to come up with an amount of time (called the deadline) necessary to forge the current block. Once the deadline is submitted, the HDD becomes idle until the next block appears. Your HDD stays idle most of the time and reads through the plot files only for a few seconds for each block. The best deadline submitted among all miners is the one forging and establishing the duration of the block.
So I need to have really fast access to data, right? Is that all what matters? Fast access? How does that work with having bigger storage? I am being paid for fast access or for bigger storage being utilized? Sorry for newbie questions but I am totally new to it.
EDIT: "What is HDD wakeup" being used for?