Chia Farming Hardware Plotting‘s 4 phase process

While the plots can be farmed with minimal resources, generating those plots does require short-term use of resources as a single plot of roughly 100GB can easily take 24 hours to create.

The plotting process takes computational power dependent on hard drive read/write speeds, processor single-core speed, processor thread counts, the total amount of RAM, and to some extent RAM performance.
Plotting is a 4 phase process using different amounts of processing power, RAM, and storage to complete.
Ultimately, the plot is created in a temporary location and moved to a permanent location. This can be the same place, but efficient plotting starts to dictate more ideal circumstances that include:
1.    A temporary storage drive for plotting that has very high read/write speeds, ideally an M.2 NVMe SSD, but SATA SSD can work as well.
2.    A permanent storage drive with high capacity but no necessity for high performance. Ideally your typical internal or external SATA HDD. Even a 5400rpm HDD is sufficient.
3.    Strong single-core performance in a processor, but also many cores or threads to allow for parallel plotting (making multiple plots at once).
4.    A high amount of RAM also enables parallel plotting. With modern hardware ideally this is 32GB of RAM, up to 64GB for serious setups. Lower amounts like 16GB or 24GB can still work, but may be a limiting factor depending on the rest of the setup.
One of the Plotting Drives I Personally Recommend
Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe Internal SSD, up to 2000MB/s - CT1000P1SSD8


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