What are peoples experiences of the stability of Windows 10 vs EthOS as a platform for hosting Ethereum miners?
Are you seeing better stability with Windows 10 or EthOS?
Are you seeing higher performance with Windows 10 or EthOS?
Any tips / gotchas on ensuring mining rigs are stable on one or the other?
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Claymore dual eth/sia
20 cards on 4 rigs running 24/7 for 200+ hours.
Every week or two i shut them down and restart, or update things.
I use Win 10 for my desktop/gaming/HTPC stuff and EthOS for mining. If you know a bit of Linux then EthOS is great if you want a rig that is very stable & very reliable. You do have plenty of control over most things that people do when tweaking their GPUs, except for possibly voltage control. If you like tweaking then maybe Windows 10 gives you more options. I prefer stability and "set and forget".
As for performance I think that it depends on your GPUs more than anything else, not the OS. EthOS will allow you to get more out of very cheap or old rig computer hardware (meaning everything apart from GPUs) because Linux will happily run on a slow old processor and 4GB ram. In my expereince Windows is terrible if you don't give it heaps of ram. I have a friend using a combination of Win 10 and Win 8.1 rigs and the Claymore miner and he seems to get similar performance from the same GPUs that we have in common.
Disabled Updates so you don't get bothered by them. Easy stuff.
Priority driver support over any other OS is a plus. Less typing commands needed to get stuff done.
It's plug and forgot just as any unix system would be.