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. Eve...
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