I purchased it, yes. It's the full unit, so it has the hashboard and a 1TB SSD with full node. I'll also write a review about it with more info, soon-ish, so we can discuss more questions over there..
Oh I see you were very busy with your new project
So this means you actually started mining Bitcoin at your home?
How much Bitcoin can you earn with one of this devices in a month, and how much electricity would be spent for this operation... especially with ever rising prices :/
I actually own the Apollo for almost half a year already, however until now I had no time for custom Linux install and just used it as it is. After all, I already have a personal full node that I can always access, with
electrs and everything I need.
However I liked the concept and wanted to deploy another node for some family (or give them my local node and use the Apollo for myself). To really make a node useful I feel you need an Electrum server and (for my taste) also a Lightning node.
Yeah, all in all it's a neat machine; it works well and reliably, it's not 'silent silent', but fairly quiet so as long as it's not in your bedroom, it won't get in your way.
I am silence freak, so for me silent option would be something like Raspberry Pi without any fans, or it can be more noisy if device was in my basement or in some other room.
Well, it will never be as silent as something that's completely fanless. However, I will add instructions for creating a
cronjob that turns off / turns down the miner at night and turns it on in the morning. Could also be modified to e.g. only mine when electricity is cheaper if that's what people want to go for.
if you want real silence, the higher-efficiency ASIC chips in the
Compac F (BM1397) may be a better choice. Though the price per hash is much higher there and you even need to buy a PSU and the GekkoScience USB hub separately.
I never heard about it and I think it's expensive, but I saw many DIY solutions that work very well with simple putting asic miner in one well isolated box.
Home mining is a tricky subject when it comes to cost; the hashrate of the Compac F is costly for the price, but it's almost unbeatable when you consider running cost. Its performance per Watt is much better than Apollo, even though you get much less hashes per $ of purchasing cost.
The first thing I had to update was the original PSU. That's not too noisy, but I replaced it with a noiseless PSU. Big difference.
The second thing to do is to keep the internal fan running as low as possible. The goal should be to keep it at around 1000-1500 rpm or less for almost no sound. Don't go past 2000rpm because it gets too loud.
Did you voided your warranty by replacing your PSU and changing stuff like this?
Few years ago I replaced fans on one of my old desktop computers and I installed manual fan control that is even better tham PWM fans.
Main problem I had with noise was coming from plastic mesh combined with incoming air, so I had to cut that off one part of a plastic with a knife
No the PSU is external anyway. The additional fans are external; internal is not modified at all. I will go more into detail in my review. I think I can get it done tomorrow.
