Topic: Which Bitmain product right now 6000$ to spend - page 2. (Read 480 times)

Thanks.

Probably  edging towards the T17+.

Just wondering if Bitmain will drop the prices next week 🤔

okay you have 6000 and want miners.

i assume you have cheap power

and that mining will make money for you.

so you need gear to not break.

all bitmain gear ⚙️ has batch variance.

my first t17+ sucked.
my second t17 + ordered two months later is great.

my t17e were on same order both work fine but are power hogs.

i ordered all my s17pro at same time. cause they allowed paypal. not much risk if they suck.

my advice is based on splitting risk.

note I can be wrong. my guess is based on one hundred orders from winter 2013 to april 2020.

and weight is placed from 2-2-2019 to 5-1-2020.

Thanks agin for the detailed response.

Do you really think the price of the machine will drop after halving?

If T17e and S17e are as bad as each other why would i split over two different types as there would be as much chance of failing.

Okay you have 6k correct?

and you have some coupons.

order 1 t17 +
order 1 s17e

wait until  May 13th to buy again

basically  buying  six of the t17+ or 6 of the s17e is not the right move as you could get a bad batch.

we are before the ½ ing and things are going to be set into motion very soon.

If you really want to order before the ½ ing due to your coupons  maybe they expire if coins go to 10k

then order 3 t17+
and order  3 s17e

my 2019-2020 order record from bitmain is

1 x s15 ---------------------works fully at or above spec
1 x t15 ---------------------- "
2 x t17 ---------------------- "
1x s17  ---------------------- "
15 x s17 pro ---------------- "
2 x 17e   -------------------- works full but uses power power then spec
2 x 17+  -------------------- 5 good boards 1 board has issues
4 x s9k ---------------------- need to be booted often but hash at spec and use power at spec.


my power is 218-228 volts very steady since June 2019  we did have an issue before June we would drop to 190 volts gear would drop out but this is not the gears fault

my air cooling is great.  lots of airflow more then I need.


my microbt what's miner record 2018-2019

10 m10's   ----- 1 died 7 fully spec 1 hashes at 27 not 31 1 has a dead board
2   m20s    ----- 1 underhashes at 38th  other is great at 68th I had to purchase 1 psu
1   m21s   ------ works fine.

so for me since late 2018 up to now my ant miner gear has been pretty good.

Thanks for the responses!

Im leaning towards the T17+ or S17e. I will probably get 6. The reduced power for same hash rate is tempting but does this come at reliability cost?  I will probably have them less than 6months.

I had a look at the Micro BT but I simply can't justify the cost based on the short time I will have them and I have coupons for Bitmain.

I don't want to hold anymore BTC!!! But I get what your saying

Ignoring S19/S19 pro since we don't have any data about them yet, none of the gears you mentioned is reliable, miners are reporting 30% failure rate on the 17 series, Bitmain admitted the 17 series suck, some people got lucky and had a less failure rate, but whose words are more reliable, the Chinese large farms + Bitmain or a few random people on the internet like myself? it's up to you to decide.

I personally wouldn't be any gear before the halving, we are only a couple of days away, I will most certainly not buy an S19 at this price and even if price drops I will still wait a few months to hear about its robustness if it has a 30% RMA rate like the 17 series, I'll pass, I will be most likely buying MicroBT gears m21/m20 as they have proven to be more reliable despite the cost.

buy 1 s17e
buy 1 t17+

spend the 2000 on btc and hold it.
hold 2000 cash 💰

reevaluate this plan in 30 days.

do so in this thread 🧵 on june 6th.

this levels your risk in four ways.

note 📝 1 s17e and 1 t17+  may be a little less then 2000 cost or a little higher.

so the 2000 in cash may be 1900 or 2100.

this method covers you if everything crashes.

as you have cash 💰 to buy either bargain gear ⚙️ or bargain coins.

this method covers you if prices go up as you have 2000 worth of coin which will become say 3000

also you have about 120th which will earn more if there is a price jump.

buying the s19 or s19pro in your case is stupid.  you won’t mine until july 31 or maybe aug 5

it has almost no path for the s19pro or s19 purchases to do better then my suggestion.

Just sold some of my gear on ebay on looking at purchasing some new gear from bitmain.

What would you go for right now? its so confusing so many choices!

What is the most reliable product? Im running some T17+ 58TH/s now and they haven't missed a beat. I don't mind waiting until july for s19 but i don't know about quality. Are the t17+ more reliable than s17e?