he wants 33 x 3 or 99 a unit for power. s-3s in my state cost about 46 or 47 a month in power.
he has a product that works for some of us.
Me I do almost no mining just 6x s-3's .
I did something I do not normally do I purchased coins. I am looking for coins to go back up to 600 then sell some off.
And anyone who is ok with a month to two old unit. They are in the data center with DIRT FLOORS. He literaly is going to have down time to clean dirt out of miners!
Do not forget this is a batch 2 S3. Discounts were given as not all got 440 GHz. The normal range is 420-440 with batch 1 and 2.
If you buy direct from bitmain you get a S3 PLUS with up to 60 GHz more, and it has better resell value.
If you truly want to host in his dirt floor, dusty, hard on miner center your better off shipping a new S3 + to the data center. Dont get these used hard batch 2's from a dirt data center.
He wants rid of these so bad hes temporary has put sold out on 1T and 1.5 T dragon.
I just want to throw in my 2c about S1/S3 reliability.
Most of the Batch 2 S3 units i have are still running fine. Of 5, 2 clocked to 500GH, 1@475GH, 1@440GH, 1@425GH. The overall average speed was appreciable.
They have run for several months, and are looking well on track to a positive ROI, especially if you consider the resale value in BTC right now. They have accumulated dust (its a good environment but not perfect), and its shown no harm, other than slightly louder, fuzzy fans.
I ran S1 units in some of the dustiest conditions (floor level over carpet) for over 6months without any issues (dusty fans draw more power and get loud trying to keep the machine cool of course) to the hashing speeds and reliability. The S3 should handle it even better with 2 fans and a case.
IMO its not a bad deal, considering i pay $0.15/kwh right now
and at .15 a kwatt you are the right customer as I would be since I am at 16 cents a kwatt.
I dont think anyone is right customer for hosting in dirt floor. He has already said he needs to close for hours to clean machines....
People are speaking with their money.... he cant even sell these since he pushes so hard for hosting.