Topic: [ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs - page 347. (Read 1260290 times)

Less posts means the topic starts to float to the bottom. SP-TECH won't let that happen.

This is not a group buy but new purchase for October SP31s which I paid for a week ago (I ordered them before they were out of stock on their website).
Then I received e-mail saying that they ran out of stock for SP31s so they offered me SP35s for November instead.
I refused and requested the refund and got another mail saying that suddenly they have got SP31s in stock (allegedly magic happened and someone cancelled an order for 3 x SP31s) and if I prefer them instead of the refund. I said I won't take them now because I already cancelled the planned hosting for October.

Also, because they haven't (purposely) precised what "refund in October" means I could receive it on 31st October if they feel like it.

They can pay their compensation for my SP30s in October as they mentioned before but they should refund me my current transaction right away. Basically, last week they borrowed about 10k from me until October.
It's a great deal. Free loan with no interest and I didn't even write down the terms of a loan.
I'm probably the best bank which has ever existed.

Basically, lets face the truth. I'm dumb

I guess I can safely say that all people which are going to receive a refund, got the same email from SPT .. (I'm part of Roadstress' GB, and got one too). That is, compensation for all the units which qualify for one is going to happen in October. 10-20 days away is not that long now.  If you wanted a coupon, you could get that as soon as they create them based on your option.

Strange, yesterday there wasn't any new firmware for the SP10 and I check today, there is one. Now it may have the latest cgminer making that statement true now.
Thanks- is it worth to update if the old firmware worked ok?

Why do I have to wait until October? When in October (received no precise date, even)? Why is S-T planning to hold this refund for so long?

People, this thread is out of control. I'm tempted to split off about 100 pages of it for being offtopic, but the ST team have graciously allowed it so far despite it being a self moderated thread. Can we please stick to the topic as the signal to noise ratio for a spondoolies tech hardware thread is far too low and mostly speculation and scam accusations and name calling and other unrelated nonsense.  Stay on topic please. Splitting the various discussions that go on will be impossible so I'm just going to start deleting offtopic posts.

That is not correct. The latest version for SP10 is 1.5.4 and there is experimental 1.5.6, I think.
Also it is simple to compile cgminer for SP10 and push it to /etc/bin.
I never got request to update cgminer.

edit: our latest cgminer version for sp10 is 4.5.0 in version 1.5.8. You will need to upgrade sw twice to latest because the line was renamed SP1x.

How trust worthy are http://www.michigan-colocation.com/.

I'm planning to give my SP-30's to them. Anyone else hosting with them?

Can I change the pools at anytime? Do they give VPN?

Stay on topic please.

You are funny!

P.S. Mabsark doesn't need your help. Stop being a heard of blind shareholders.

Also I wouldn't want to piss Bitfury...

Im just going to say this: there are 1,357 Billion chinese people & Discuss fish is now n°1

I thought the Tubes are using the same BE200 chips that FC/AM is selling. I also thought that it's logical that if chips don't sell good considering there are so many distributors, manufacturers and an open source project the miner called Tube which uses the same chips will not sell good.


Canary as a distributor sold less units than what I had in my SP30 GB. I wouldn't brag with that number if I were him.

Also being on a third batch means nothing if you don't know how big are the batches. SP-Tech had 1k SP30 units in August and more in September. If Canary sold 100 units then the total number of the Tubes in the wild must be less than 1000. Not that much of a performance.

So you now admit that you were trolling and talking rubbish about competitors in their thread while praising Spondoolies?

I wasn't praising AM. In fact, the information I provided showed that the SP35 would be the most valuable miner if all delivery times where immediate, network hash rate was static, BTC price was static and cost of electricity was static. It also showed that the SP20 would be forth, with the S3+ B9 second and an AM Tube in third place. As it stands, the SP20 is just poor value. That's just how it is and nothing you or I say will change that. Only Spondoolies can fix it.

Only on their current/new hardware. My SP10 has an old 4.4.1 version still and that's the latest firmware. So that statement isn't entirely true. It runs just fine, I just thought that comment was a little off.

How trust worthy are http://www.michigan-colocation.com/.

I'm planning to give my SP-30's to them. Anyone else hosting with them?

Can I change the pools at anytime? Do they give VPN?

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Thanks zvisha, will try the psu first.

As I reply to this BTC = ~$396.80 .. so of course these numbers are off, could have been off if BTC was $1000 too, not talking about. What I see missing is the difficulty level factor in this. 147 days to pay back for example using the difficulty rate would be much longer. or am I wrong?

I made up a spreadsheet much like this, used it to compare all the miners I could find on Amazon, ebay and on. Pretty much the SP35 was the best in short time to break even as a single unit. Which is why I was drawn to this topic to start off. I wanted to gather more info.

Tubes was second. Plus easier to get with lower cost so they too hold an advantage. S3 fell in third on how I figure on the spreadsheet.

The poster who posted the 80/20 rule, many post back from this now, is right. Goes further too in forums as if this forum is anything but average, 80 percent noise to 20 percent useful info. Sorry if I spark further trolls ... it was that difficult to read and find useful info here on the SP35.

I don't want to sound negative either, like so many other posts here but it just seems the costs now are not going to pay back for much longer than a 147 days. Electricity cost are not a factor for me. Where my units would be placed I do not pay for the engery, nor the heat/cooling. All part of the lease. I either use it or not. I would get the best bang for my lease if I did. Problem is there is amount to use, that is limited current wise. I would only be able to place in 4 SP35s as is. Then I would have to run additional capacity into the room.

I had mention that these units would be shut down when a lower noise level was desired. Right now, that would be less than 20 hours a week. A drop in the bucket. The room is not that much used.

I am looking at other alt coins for mining and dropping BTC mining. Depends on the answers to this post.

Please don't respond to this post with further trolling. Just looking for some clarifications.

Dale