Topic: ANTMINER S2 Discussion and Support Thread - page 108. (Read 355730 times)

IMO Bitmain has done themselves a disservice by trying to build a 1TH miner with their existing ASICS.
As an EE and embedded software engineer I see these problems:

1. Bus based systems using card edge connectors - unreliable (see original IBM PC)
2. Beagle board is hobbyist grade - unreliable, known for SD card problems
3. Too many ASICS - unreliable
4. Shipping problems because of #1 above.

The S1 is rock solid because it was designed that way.

1. Two blades solidly attached to a metal frame and connected with ribbon cables.
2. Commercial quality controller in the TP-link

I assume (hope) Bitmain cobbled this together as a stop-gap while they ready their next gen ASICs.

IIRC there was already rumour, or an outright statement by Bitmain that they've got a 28nm in the pipeline.

S1 is awesome;  Bitmain should think about moving to 28nm or 40nm in the same great form factor for ~400-500 GH/s and =<1w/GH.
That would be a killer product up to $400-450. Call it S3.

Sorry to say but price (including costs of PS) and power consumption is not the only means of comparison for product value between S1<>S2.

When Bitmain can also make the S2 as reliable as the S1 and ship it in working order to customers with a lower sale price then I will take notice.

I like the 1T

but

please dont reset everything upon rebooting, also basic packages like cron should not be removed.

Bitmain took the massive risk of investing huge sums of money to produce some of the best-selling miners on the market and supported the bitcoin community by not accepting pre-orders and they are competing right at the top now. I believe they might have the right to set the price as high or low as they like.

I doubt they will be willing to make a loss, just because a few people on this forum think they're entitled to cheaper products. Remember that they still have to pay their suppliers and staff in fiat... I'd like them to stay in the game.

Yes milk.   As manufacturer they have alot of room to play chess with the other players.  But noone want to go to low.

They are going to have to change their refund policy on these. What's to stop someone from buying one and bringing it back in 30 days for a full refund?

Holy crap, would you look at that:

http://www.microcenter.com/product/431763/AntMiner_S1_180GH-s_Standalone_Bitcoin_Miner


Bobsag3 must be happy about that.   

Just for a comparison.......Microcenters, an electronics retailer announced today they are selling mining equipment. Right now they have Gridseeds and Antminer S1. They have the S1 priced at $400.00, (gulp).....

Edgar today S1 price $224.12  for one AntMiner S1 is by far the best priced miner in the market.

Problem is not hardware price my opinion is BTC is to low now.

Bitmain!!

I have received a very smashed up Batch 3 S2 unit from you! I have sent you an email with the details but no response yet. Please look into this ASAP, I expect a very swift response as I'm a customer who has bought 30 S1's and 2 S2's from you! It was purchased from the username "B4rtab".

I expected you to resolve this issue after Batch 1&2!!!

This be the S2 thread.

+1

S1s are now about $200 a pop. For those who are math challenged, that's $1200/TH unpowered or $1560/TH stock with ATX golds.

price is still to high 

I do believe that your card was corrupted; I just mentioned this because I had gotten the blue screen originally and formatted and re-imaged the card without paying attention to the files on it, so I'm not sure if it was corrupted in the first place. I just wanted to let people know that the blue screen doesn't necessarily mean the card is corrupted, it might not be and it's worth checking first.

Thanks again for all of your original input, it was really helpful 

Just happened...:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6567939

Ready to Royal Rumble...?

Let's the games begin...

ZiG

I pulled the image of the SD card after the corruption. I took the card and used win32diskimager to pull the image. When I looked for files on the card, I didn't see any.

Here's the image:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16075357/CORRUPT.IMG.zip

Attention Canadian Miners

A datacenter dedicated to modern mining equipment (Bitmain S2, Cointerra, Dragon, etc) is now open in the Toronto, Ontario Canada area.  We're accepting applications from those who seek space to host their mining servers.

Please PM with the following information:

-number and model of your mining rigs, to determine electrical usage
-timing (are you looking for hosting space now, or in the near future)
-contact info

If you so legit why you using bitmain in his thread to advertise yourselve as reseller for him?
If any of your claims would be so legit, probably bitmain would confirm that, right? But actually nothing happened apart of naming 3 reliable sources which we all knew-they are there.

I ask for proof for your pallet a day of s1. nothing was received.
Your statements are fishy, starting with website apparently bought by bitmain and store being setup specially for you by them.Claims about being in mining business over a year but no proof of any of this. Apparently you was selling miners on other site and amazon, please provide proof any of this.

Last but not least, your bold statements not backed up by anyone, not even one customer. You are in business for a year but never on forum like this?
Trust me if you or any other business appear in BTC world there is big chance someone would mention this in this forum.

Most of company's factories, manufactures, resellers started to advertise their business on this forum. Because this way they could:

-have shit loads new customers
-free targeted viewers
-free advertisement

At this moment you made statements which was picked up by me and checked. Nothing ad up so i will assume you are here to scam.
And trust me, people on daily basis scamming others with fancy websites, great gear for good price, don't matter how legit you think you are i still will advice anyone to stay away untill you can make things right.
 
Once again, please provide me Tx or your wallet so i can trace that pallet of miners a day.