I received my first B1 09-09-15 order on Monday and it has been running 4850 since I connected and booted up. That is good.
I am not complaining by any means, but it would have been nice for Bitmain to share what the issue was which held off shipping.
.0021 HW error in a bit over 48 hours.
Temps at 54 - 60
power at the miner connection is 12.17 using a single 2880 to power the S7, along with an S5.
I am eager to see what an S7+ brings to the table along with other competition.
I do believe we will see other miners available, and I would like to see a 16 - 20 TH miner from someone with either prior successful sales to members we all know on this forum. Say Phil for example. OR, they better begin building trust through transparency ala sidehack and novac.
I hope everyone see's their B1 S7 units ship by the end of this week so bitmain begins shipping the other batches.
While Bitmain lost serious points with many people for handling this situation the way they did, of course many will run to buy anything they sell. Personally it was a big relief to see my 3 kg shipment heading to the USA. I felt a bit taken advantage of, but they did ship me what they said they would.
I also feel like mainstream reviewers are scared of bitmain. When you tell the story of a product, tell it all. This was a serious example of a major fuckup in business.
The saving grace, and this has been their saving grace many times, is they do eventually deliver running systems. Even if you do not like bitmain for many other reasons, the majority of the hardware runs.
Maybe that is the approach of the mainstream reviewer. They do not want to say anything negative about a company, especially bitmain. So, they keep the review strictly hardware related.
In that sense I have to give bitmain great marks on the S7 for some simple things.
They sent a quick start / rma guide, and while there were a few typos which are unfortunately common with that many words in a doc coming from certain parts of the world, it is a big step for newer and older miners alike. More so for newer.
They have a safety label on the machine, which in turn also makes it look more pro.
Most of us probably have safety information memorized and realized, but it never hurts to have that reminder in your face. I believe this is a big improvement.
The Aluminum chassis is awesome. I am worried about damage to the corner of the hash boards for those of us who enjoy different configurations and prodding. (once out of warranty of course)
They are closer to having a modular miner imo.
The used market will be a mess with speeds ranging from everything which has been posted in this thread.
What do you think is the best and worst about the S7?
Best: I like being able to adjust the fan speed. I turned it down so it's no louder than the S5 now and working fine. The biggest is the electric savings over the S5.
Worst: the ROI
Get something back out of getting ripped off imho. It might have been something small..but it woulda been running