Farming for non-techies

[dallyshalla]

@goindeep

As far as I understand the 3rd test is were we can tinker around with fake coin farming and have a play on the network and that this testnet3 start date has not yet been announced? Would I be right and if so when it is announced how would we begin? Just by signing up via the maidsafe.net website and then downloading some sort of application or software?

TestNet 3 date not yet announced; though maidsafe.atlassian.net looks good;

I hear maidsafe.net is going to see an update; and have a link as to where to download the SAFE Launcher application; drive, decentralized storage is there, vaults for storing and transmitting the data pieces is there;

Yepp, just download the software and run it on your machine, set up a vault;
there is plenty of discussion regarding the safecoin farming aspect; yet conclusions are yet to be determined, I think on what is best to farm safecoins on;
there’s this age old thread:

Best Safe Node hardware

What characteristics will be important to build the best farming rig? The most important factor is obviously a large amount of storage. Can a vault span multiple drives, or will we need to run a RAID type setup? How will drive failures affect the network. At what point does the cost of redundancy outweigh the hit from dropping data off the network? If you have 3 disks, I expect you don’t want to cut your space by a third to gain single drive failure recovery. What about if you have 100 dri…

if you use the magnifying glass at the top right of the screen in maidsafe.org, you can search “farming hardware” or any other search you’d like to see some keywords on;