Maybe most people without issues are not posting as much, but if you look back through here, and the site Tupsu points out, the people without issues seem to be very few.
I consider myself lucky I only have one fan failure which Bitmain did finally replace, thanks to Yoshi. He does come around.
My unit has always been a low hasher though, and runs fairly consistent poolside at 7.6.
Seeing the reports of the S7 hashrate, my hashing issues are negligent if you compare chip to chip.
Certainly compared to the SP20 advertised 1.7 TH which I've never seen one run at that rate out of the ones I've had, and I tried with decent ambients, the S5+ is closer to maintaining the specification.
What I do not understand is why any of these companies aren't straight up honest at this point. Obviously people are continuing to purchase miners even when they are screwed. Maybe that is why they play this game of saying one thing and doing another?
But I will agree with the other poster and congrats to you notlist3d for winning the S5+ miner and receiving one without issues, yet.
I would agree those who have issues are more likely to come to board then those who have positive experience. Just is kinda the nature of feedback.
I am still suprised about some of the issues. I don't disagree looking at them they are not nice to see. I am not sure if I got lucky or a lot didnt post with positive feedback. One thing to keep in mind is I think the S5+ originally was meant for data centers but after customers wanted it they eventually sold a limited number to public.
But mine I feel happy with. It came clean did not look like it was ran hard, if it was they cleaned it as it was clean. I have also shared my experience with it running I got to around 25 day's till my power company did a upgrade and power went off. I have started the count over on how many day's. But it's still working great as far as my unit.
Yes, I should make sure I clarify and be fair. I want to be sure people know I am happy with my S5+ purchase. My S5+ did not arrive dirty. I said the fan was the only issue but I also had a heat sink which was unfinished in the sawing process. I'm assuming they were sawed, and my hash is a bit under spec, and if there was a corner store I could go speak with them about these issues I would, but having been exposed to all of the issues people have I have adjusted my expectations of Bitmain and in that regard I will say my S5+ experience was good. Would I do it again knowing what I do now, yes I would. Someone may ask "why? The S7 was released right after" and I would respond with the S7 was announced right after, but most of us are still waiting on it to be delivered and the S5+ was the right choice for me at that time. I do not regret a single S3 purchase, or the S5+. I do regret my S4s and I am about 50-50 on my S5s.
It is not good that I had to lower my expectations because I was spoiled by the SP20 class of hardware, but even then we were told it would hash at 1.7, but I do not regret a single SP20 purchase because of the quality of the hardware and support I received along with the life of these units. They are the energizer bunny of mining equipment in my experiences due to a combination of the aforementioned along with the confidence they implore.
I will throw a but in there though, at least Bitmain is selling to the public and we have an opportunity to stay in the game.
I know sidehack and novac will never release control for big funding, and rightly so, but how amazing would it be to see them rolling out a big boy today? "Take all of my money and here I will sell things and give you more"
I sincerely do not know how medium size farms are optimistic. Obviously the large farms receive a higher level of support and quality control, but man the medium size guys who are just a level above most of us have got to be hurting. IF you must sell coin to pay the power bill every month I toast you. If I were making decisions based on "have to" versus whatever the hell I feel like I would not have near as much fun. I see the light, the window started to close well before I was on the scene, but I am going to enjoy it and stay at my scale. Don't get me wrong, I would love to pack up and move to Washington, or Mongolia and have a Giant farm to run. I cannot think of anything I would rather be doing (outside of spending quality time with my children obviously), but I would seriously pack up and go. I think it would be an amazing ride and roll of the dice but knowing the manufacturers have the keys to the ecosystem is scary as hell. The knowledge obtained when we pull the curtain back and peek in makes sure there will not be a winner outside of being partnered with or being a manufacturer. By winner I mean making the money required for making a commitment of 5 - 10 years of my life inside a bitcoin mine. No matter how much I love it today, that would begin to wane when all of the stress of buying decisions, equipment availability, down time, etc are involved. I strive for consistency and fun. While my company is a huge challenge, we still have fun every day and I know my skill set will not let me go hungry. In the bitcoin world it doesn't matter how good you are, there are too many straight limiting factors controlled by others. Not so much fun.
But it would damn sure be nice to walk down those rows of flashing lights hopping from one to the other to keep things going, installing new systems, upgrading the power, hooo, hooo HOOO, it is motivating.
