Because some of us DESPISE the garbage reliability level of recent Bitmain products.
In large scale deploys Bitmains failure rate is only around 7-8%. While its still on the high side its quite managable especially when you compare it to the 30% failure rate I experienced with Ebangs products. Avalon is still the king with a 1.7% failure rate on large deploys.
fanatic26 - What is the source of the reliability numbers for Bitmain, ebang and Avalon you are quoting here? Your experience, another bitcoin talk tread, any third party analysis or report? Please elaborate.
On the s9's, I have 12 of them in my farm ranging from batch-1 up to b25. To date have had 5 hash boards die, 1 from batch-7, 1 from b9, 2 from b11 and 1 from batch-13., all within this year since June. You do the math.
my avalon 741's are failing at a far greater rate then any avalon i ever had.
my s-9's are worse but I am now 2 failed avalon 741's of 4 owned.
my 721's were perfect 6 for 6 and ran for a year.
my 6's were 20 of 21 and the one i killed was my fault.
my 4.1's were 7 of 7.
in general the avalon were good for me until the 741's.
and to those that truly sent money to this company for vapour gear. where I guy swears he has one for testing in hand and does not show us jack shit good luck.
Once again to the builds of this vaporware shoot me a pm and I will test it and do a long set of youtube videos showing it kicking the s-9's butt or just ignore me like the other vaporware companies do.
vaporware till i have one in my house.