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Topic: Baikal Quad Cube Miner Review - Quality=Awesomeness - page 2. (Read 2815 times)

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Well, I've owned some Antminers, Avalons, and GPU's during my mining career, and I have to say hands down, the Baikal Quad Cube is my favorite in quality and reliability. It's pretty much plug and play and solid as a rock.

You can read the full specs/data from the company here: http://www.baikalminer.com

Quick run through:

It supports 6 Algorithms: X11 / X13 / X14 / X15 / Quark / Qubit

Even though the company description page says it hashes 1200MH (+ or - 10%) in any of the algorithms, I always find that it is always in the + side. It is always over 1200MH and not once, have I seen it go lower than 1200MH other than when the miner is booting up (love the under promise and over deliver aspect).

Power wise, it has (4) standard 6pin pcie jacks that you see everyone using now a days, so it's pretty friendly if you already have some old back up miner power supplies (at most, I say it only needs 350watts). The miner does come with (2) 6pin pcie splitters so you will actually only need (2) 6pin pcie cables.
Side note: I always find it that it is consuming slightly less watts than what it indicates on the company description page (maybe due to my platinum server power supply). So that is a win-win.

The Baikal Quad Cube is actually 4 cubes stacked together but with only 1 controller (Raspberry Pi Zero). You can find a link to update the Raspberry Pi Zero image here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1GBwN5-i39VRzNQS28tWlpsTVk

It comes with multiple multi-pools with best auto-algo switch for you to choose from so all you would need is to click which one you want and change the BTC address to yours. Pretty EASY setup!

Noise? What Noise? If you set the baikal-fan option to 50%, it's like the most silent miner I've owned and it still stays cool.

Questions & Answers will be on post #2 and will be updated from time to time so people don't get lost or ask the same questions.

Time for some show and tell, here are views of the Baikal Quad Cube in different angles:





Here is a view of the Raspberry Pi Zero controller (with antenna??? trying to figure out how to activate this!)



Comes with 4GB microsd card



Here is my HP server power supply with breakout board.



Now time for the interface!

Once everything is connected, it is set to DHCP so you will need to find the IP address, usually can be seen in your router page. Baikal also have tools to locate the miner's ip: https://github.com/baikalminer/multi-algo-miner/tree/master/utility
Note: default password is baikal to login the interface page.




This is the default stats page once you logged in (this has been running for 12+ hours and you can see the hashrate is always above 1200MH!)
Note: The status "Dead/Alive" changes randomly because it moves around to different algorithms for best profit switching.



This is the miner settings page where you can change your pools and options



This is the settings page where you can set up alerts and auto-recovery in-case the miner goes below a threshold(it'll restart itself I believe)



This page is where you can save settings or restore settings (easy cloning in-case you have multiple Baikal miners)



It comes with built in terminal and supports root! Root login is baikal, and password is baikal



Am I missing something? Let me know!
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