Using SSDs will speed up plotting, but unfortunately they have significantly more limited lifespans.

• Recommendation is to plot in parallel on many HDDs at once; and not use SSDs.

It is more efficient to plot in parallel, rather than series.

• Stagger multiple plotting instances to start 30 minutes or more apart.

These tend to take the most time during plotting:

• Phase 1 (Forward Propagation)
• Phase 3 (Compression)

chia plots create -t {plotting-folder} -d {final-folder}

chia plots create -t {plotting-folder} -2 {temp_dir_2} -d {final-folder}

There are 4 major phases to plotting.

• Phase 1 (Forward Propagation): Utilizes multi-threading.
  • Above 4 threads there are diminishing returns.
• Phase 2 (Back Propagation): No multi-threading. * Phase 3 (Compression)**: No multi-threading.
• Phase 4 (Checkpoints):

You can better optimize your plotting by using the -r flag in your command and setting it to greater than 2, e.g,. -r 2.