I'm looking to sell get rid of an old 500GB Seagate hard drive I have that appears to have some issues.

Here is the drive status according to HD Tune: https://i.imgur.com/CeHaX75.png The drive seems to click like mad when the "Quick Error Scan" in HD Tune is run, so I'm not quite sure what's going on.

Ideally, I'd like to just get this drive out of my house. I found it sitting in a computer, not hooked up and when I hooked it up I found out why I hadn't hooked it up in the first place. I have no use for the drive and don't think I will in the foreseeable future.

If someone wants this let me know and I can send it over to you for the cost of shipping the drive, plus maybe a small tip if you're feeling generous. I suspect that shipping will cost ~ $12 CDN if shipped within Canada, and about $11 CDN (~$8.50 USD) to ship it to the US, without tracking. (I have no idea why it costs less to ship this package out of country compared to within the country)

So if you're interested, send me a PM with your postal or ZIP code and I can get you an exact amount for shipping and we'll take it from there.

I saw monbux wasn't on level 2 DT either a few weeks back and that was a little surprising due to his amount of trust. I haven't traded with him personally so I can't vouch for him being trustworthy, but he appears to have a huge amount of trades under his belt, and it doesn't look anyone has ever had any issues with him.

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I'm running it on 110V. I don't think the power is because of the lower hashing speed, it just seems that some units hash higher than others. Right now my unit is hashing at 4.68 TH/s, but it fluctuates between that and 4.86 TH/s.

I don't think so. Animated gifs used to be allowed (back in 2013 I believe) but after the avatar exploit no animated avatars were allowed.

It's about 22.4cm long without the fans.

I'm in Saskatchewan actually. We have a government funded power company, but it still costs quite a bit.

The dimensions of the miner are 30 cm (length) x 15 cm (height) x 13 cm (width). The height includes the controller as well.

Here are some pictures of my power config:
https://i.imgur.com/VyL3qfM.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1wtiqi6.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XlJrHGE.jpg

But basically, every red ended cable coming out the LEPA has 2 PCI-e 6+2 pin connectors. I'm using 9 of those connectors to power hashing boards, and then the remaining PCI-e connector to power up the controller.

Damn, sounds like power is pretty cheap wherever you live.. it's not unusual for my power bill to peak at $300 CAD once and awhile when I'm running just a couple of ASICs. However, that's probably because of how my power company does estimated readings, and then actual readings every few months.

Sure do! I plugged it in quickly this morning and the unit evened out between 1190W and 1210W. That's the power going into the LEPA, so I suspect the actual miner is only taking about 90-92% of that, so about 1090W or so.

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Thanks for your participation everyone! If you were paid today, you're free to remove your signature and look elsewhere for another campaign. If you think there's an issue with your payment, send me a PM and we'll sort it out.

Sure thing, just tested that out for you.

Phone right up to the miner: 100dB
Phone 1 meter from the miner: 70dB

Video should be available at this link in two minutes or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UFGEXyduSA

I realize there isn't a great comparison for how noisy this miner is, but it sounds about the same as your typical vacuum cleaner on high speed.

Be sure to let me know if you have any other questions I can answer, or want any more pictures of the unit.

@suchmoon I can test that out in a minute and get back to you on what happens, but yeah I suspect it just won't power up.

I saw the same mistake (the S5+ instead of S7 mistake) as you, it seems like they through those instructions together very quickly without even proofreading.

They also claim that most residential lines supply only 10A. Here in Canada most residential 120V lines supply 15A. Hopefully they'll fix up these instructions before mass-shipping the units out.

Time to answer some questions!

The miner won't operate with two PCI-e connectors per board, according to Bitmain. See this image: https://i.imgur.com/OV3f8Ql.jpg - Read point #1

Confirming that the controller has 9x 18 pin connectors. See this image: https://i.imgur.com/JzUJsN9.jpg (just zoom into the connector area, the image is pretty high resolutions so you can count all nine)

As for the ribbon cables, they look fairly short. I don't think you'd be able to reach an adjacent S7 with the included cables. But I'm sure some longer ribbon cables would be able to reach the controller from a foot or two away.

I mentioned my power configuration before:

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I took a video of the unit as well, just going to render it and upload it now. Should be up in less than an hour! (Slow internet ftw!)

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Some images I took of the miner for those interested:
https://i.imgur.com/zRFY1Ry.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JzUJsN9.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZJIerix.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IZaNZvf.jpg

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Thanks in advance Bob!

Edonkey and suchmoon, I'm not near the miner right now but I'll try and answer your questions a little later today.

I'm using the GPU/CPU/RAM rails on the LEPA to power the unit. I have four PCI-e connections on rail 12V5 (three connectors powering hashing boards and one powering the controller) and two connections on each of 12V3,12V4 and 12V6. So in total there are 10 PCI-e connectors on the miner and that's how I split them up.

Haven't looked into frequency or voltage control on the miner yet. I mentioned before that I  don't plan on overclocking this unit for awhile, so I don't have any numbers on that yet. However I suspect it has at minimum frequency controls.

After mining for a few hours the outside case is as cool as when the unit is unplugged. Obviously quite a bit of warm air is blown out by the fans during operation, but case is nice and cool and hashing board temps are from 44C-49C for me with an ambient temperature of ~ 20C.

Sure, I can try and take a short video of it hashing away a little later today. I've taken a few pictures already of the unboxing, but I'll take more of it all hooked up and hashing as well. Should have the video of the miner up in about 10 hours or so at the latest.

Turns out the second fan was working the whole time, it was just the fan grill that made it look like it wasn't working (derp). So my previous noise level estimates were taken from the unit with both fans working.

Also, I just took a power reading and it looks like this miner takes 1200W exactly for me, using a LEPA 1600W PSU.

I just received an S7 earlier today for reviewing for a computer hardware site, AMA!

Here are some quick things I've found during a couple hours of testing:
-The miner is VERY loud. Compared to a ZeusMiner Thunder X6/GAWMiner Falcon, this miner is definitely louder. However, one thing to mention is that although the unit has two fans, I suspect one of the fans is dead (swapped plugins, fan shows an RPM on the Miner Status page but isn't spinning up at all). So if both fans were working, the unit would probably be a little quieter. But it's the miner is very audible through a door, about 30 feet away, even when listening to music slightly louder than a normal conversation through speakers. However, this single fan blows a ton of air, similar to other miners. It blows enough air to be an effective hand dryer. The noise really reminds me of a vacuum cleaner on full speed.

-My review unit is hashing away at about 4.60TH/s. A little lower than what BITMAIN claims, but still a very good rate.

-Import fees were fairly high for me, BITMAIN claimed the package as the full value when shipping it out, and I was charged a total of $131.48 CAD from UPS for delivery ($121.48 for customs fees, and $10 for brokerage fees)

-The unit uses DHCP - no more plugging it directly into a PC and modifying settings if you aren't using the default 192.168.x.x domain hardcoded into older Antminer miners, very nice for those not using the 192.168 subdomain.

Those were a few things I noticed during the first couple hours of testing, but yeah, be sure to let me know if you have any more questions. I don't think I'll overclock it for awhile, so don't expect to get answers on that.