Restoring old r270 mining rig

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You would probably get better speed and definitely better perf-per-watt from selling all the old components and buying a single mid-level Pascal card used on eBay, or at least upgrading to a Polaris. That said, working on old tech is fun

Yep, Nvidia is definitely the most efficient way - I'm waiting to switch when I have more money to invest - this way I could use a rack mounted case and ipmi enabled motherboard (now I rely on shitty raspberrypi 0 hooked up to relay modules to be able to remotely reboot/poweroff and hoping I won't set my house on fire  yeah I know it can be done by using a relay to short power/reset pins on motherboard - I'm just lazy and had those two big nasty relays that could probably be used with an industrial lift  ). Working with old tech is fun and educative  nice to meet people that share this passion  

A 2TB Samsung 860 Evo is less than $200 from eBay. A single 10TB HGST can be had for around the same price refurbished on eBay. I have a lot of large wordlists that I store compressed and just expand when I need them into memory or SSD space. My entire wordlist collection is less than 500GB compressed. I would recommend simply using a small SSD and worrying about expanding this if/when you need the space.

This is an excellent idea! I happen to have a 250GB ssd lying around - I'll hook it up to 10TB HGST and away go my issues.

I am using ribbon cable risers on my rig right now and have had no issues with them. Most power draw is through the PCIe connectors.

Mine have an extra molex and a capacitor   back when doge coin was booming this rig (back then 6 gpus, now 3 gpus since R9 290 all died) it ran over 1.5 year non-stop  but it was long time ago, half of cards overheated (well, two did - one got sold) and the ones  that left have all patchy fans since the stock ones died  it looks like frankenstein-rig and hence my lack of trust