smOS
A cryptocurrency mining dedicated operating system, provided @tytanick at the reasonable cost of $2 per rig managed per month. You simply burn a USB flash drive with his image on your home PC, and then boot from USB on your mining rig. NO SSD REQUIRED ... It comes preconfigured with all of the Nvidia & AMD drivers you will need, then autostarts mining as soon as the system loads.
(I try to prevent restarts but I had no clue what I was doing when I first started using smOS. My rigs all run stable and I took this picture to monitor the restarts that shouldn't be happening.)
# Overall Opinion I really enjoyed the simple to use features, basically I just need to type in my email and then set up a rig group for all my miners. It was very simple to adjust clock speeds too through the overclocking menu, which also included temperature and fan control. I will happily pay the $2 per month for each rig until I have a better concept to work with than not having to ever buy a SSD again.
I would recommend that newer users have a monitor hooked up for initial install as a few setup adjustments need to be done. Mining Mode, PCIe settings and Audio are a few features that need to be modified in the motherboard bios.
Important Notes
- Autorestarts Miner if any issue with GPU
- Lower Temperature and Fan Speed Comapred to Windows 10
- Linux Kernel
- All Necessary GPU drivers pre-installed
- Update process is mandatory and non-negotiable your miners will stop while the updating process occurs
- You must be pre-registered with a mining pool already, you will need your account name and worker names as well as the pools mining port during setup, make sure to sign up for a pool before you set up smOS
- R9 & RX AMD cards are compatible
- Nvidia GTX Cards are Compatible
- No difference in hashrate from Windows 10
I would have a wattage for you but sadly my watt power bar was damaged during a move so I have to get a new one. Any recommendations feel free to comment below.
(*For every 1 Zcash you produce.*)
I rent my rigs my direct consultation, please feel free to email phusionphil@darkflame.net for any inquiry you may have.