I just got my Baikal Quadruple Miner which I ordered from one of the group buys mentioned in this thread. I just would like to share some experience I've made so far with the miner and with baikalminer.com. I had 2 scrypt miners from Innosilicon and thought I could buy an A4. But then I read the issues they had with multipools and in addition the skyrocketing diff change from Litecoin made me think not to invest in scrypt anymore…at least for the moment
So as already mentioned I saw the offer via group buy in this forum and thought give it a try since also prohashing.com announced to offer an X11 multipool.
Ordering:
I ordered the miner during the Chinese holidays directly via email. I had few questions to baikalminer.com. Although they stated several times the response time could take longer than usual I got the response every time within few hours. I got my questions clarified, got the BTC address and paid with my hardly earned BTC’s.
Shipment:
The shipment was super-fast to Europe (Switzerland). February 3rd – 7th with DHL. I was on short vacation and postponed it to February 9th. The usual issues with DHL when getting an SMS at 07.30 am stating the delivery will be between 2pm and 5 pm and 15minutes later the doorbell is ringing…
Unboxing:
The miner comes in a padded parcel which is not bigger than the dimension of the miner itself. The dimension of the miner is 140mm(L) x 100mm(W) x 355mm(H) and the weight 1650g according to the official website from baikalminer.com. It actually comes with all the needed wire. You have a wire with four single power plugs (to feed four units) at one end and on the other end a PCI-E plug which you can connect to a PSU. Alternatively you could buy four separate four power supply 2V/5A which I think I will buy going forward. Currently I am feeding the quadruple through a PSU from an open rig.
The other bunch of wires which got delivered is for connecting the four units together. The following video did help me to setup the miner properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z8QxuULLlU .
After that I had just to plug in the Ethernet wire into the quadruple and the miner was ready for its first start.
Initial operation:
I was very surprised that the first start was a success. Every unit has three led’s. A red led (assuming is the power led), a blue led which is blinking during the start-up and in the middle of the two a smaller green one which is blinking from time to time (assuming traffic light).
The miner obtains its IP through DHCP setup from your local network (I didn’t find an option so far to assign a static internal IP address to the miner though – maybe through terminal option within the GUI?) Typing the IP address into a browser brings me to the login page where the standard password “Baikal” is needed.
Now I am into the GUI to communicate with the miner. It has 5 tabs – current miner overview (temps, pool information, hashrate per unit etc.), miner (pre-defined pool information, but also the possibility to enter your individual pool information and some sgminer options), settings (timezone settings, web password change, email alert and some options on remote control functionality), backup (backup and restore options) and terminal (self-explanatory).
Currently mining for approximately 10 hours with almost steady 600MH/S on X11 and quark coins. So far no issues and stable operation of the miner…tbc…
Let me know if you find that review useful or if you have any questions I could answer.
