I've put up a few offers for sale but no messages about them. Not sure whether the fact that we can only solo mine will effect the price positive or negative since its harder to get coins but you get so many....

Just keep on mining.  It's like saying you've built a 5MHS scrypt rig and have run out of GPU's.  Can you still mine?  Of course!  Your plots are always working for you.  Buying another HD and filling it with plots is like building another traditional rig.

just ensure your passphrases is complex and secure ...


a normal 3,5" 4tb/6tb drive + external case is less expensive ...

e.g.:
http://geizhals.de/western-digital-wd-green-6tb-wd60ezrx-a1143909.html
http://geizhals.de/raidsonic-icy-box-ib-368stu3-b-20379-a1073210.html

you can use mklink in windows or ln -s in linux, to mapping files in just one drive, then you can just open one miner.

One more thing is you should make an outgoing transaction. Your full public key isn't saved into the blockchain until you do. Almost any type of transaction will suffice, send yourself 1 burst, or buy an alias, or set your account name.

Assuming this is you:
http://127.0.0.1:8125/burst?requestType=getAccountPublicKey&account=BURST-ZEN7-MS5U-L59L-5UK39
shows if your key is saved or not

depends on length ... use >30 chars: letters (upper and lower case), numbers, symbols ... that should be safe!

So nobody has figured out how to generate the plots quicker yet?  I think I have a solution that should generate them anywhere from 100-500 times faster.  If I get it up and running (give me half a day) I'll let you know

Actually no, nothing as involved as that.  I started looking at re-writing it in C++ (which would be more efficient for sure) then it dawned on me that this can be done in a much simpler way, though probably not a way suitable for everyone.  The creation of the plots requires a lot of computing power, but only needs to be done once.  So my not-so-pretty solution is simply to distribute the plot creation out to a farm   If I can get it working, I think I should be able to achieve upwards of 1TB an hour, maybe 10x this if I have my calculations correct.  In theory I could produce plots for other people, but creation speed would be limited by their internet connection so not really practical

I thought about that once also, but the networking speed was a deal killer, since there really isn't any mining benefit over having each machine generate its own set of plots, then just grabbing all the hdds.

You might not be able plot for other people online like that, but you could sell them pre-plotted hdds.(wonder if there'd actually be any takers on that one.)