Requirements for a small custom farm

[leowonderful]

Everything depends on cooling, power costs, backup, and area available. Your area should be neat, as to make cooling as effective as possible. You'll want cheap electricity in a cooler place, so you won't use as much power on cooling, but still need especially cheap electricity. Cool and cheap is a huge factor, which is why many farms are located in Washington state in the US. You'll want extended backup to keep things going in case of power going out; it takes time to shut miners down safely. There's many more factors like cost of miners and what model, but assuming it's an S9 farm with 5-cent electricity or less, in an ideal enviroment, it should work.

[alh]

Everything depends on cooling, power costs, backup, and area available. Your area should be neat, as to make cooling as effective as possible. You'll want cheap electricity in a cooler place, so you won't use as much power on cooling, but still need especially cheap electricity. Cool and cheap is a huge factor, which is why many farms are located in Washington state in the US. You'll want extended backup to keep things going in case of power going out; it takes time to shut miners down safely. There's many more factors like cost of miners and what model, but assuming it's an S9 farm with 5-cent electricity or less, in an ideal enviroment, it should work.

While I agree with 80% of what is said, I think any focus on backup is largely wasted money. There is very little risk to a miner from an unplanned shutdown. Yes, mining time is lost when the lights go out, but that's it. If you have unstable power with frequent outages, then you have a different problem, that backup is unlikely to solve.

Mining is does not need a Data Center environment. Extensive backup and redundancy in power isn't free, and is unlikely to pay for itself.

I am basing this on the general reliability of of the USA electrical grid. Your environment may be different.

[philipma1957]

Everything depends on cooling, power costs, backup, and area available. Your area should be neat, as to make cooling as effective as possible. You'll want cheap electricity in a cooler place, so you won't use as much power on cooling, but still need especially cheap electricity. Cool and cheap is a huge factor, which is why many farms are located in Washington state in the US. You'll want extended backup to keep things going in case of power going out; it takes time to shut miners down safely. There's many more factors like cost of miners and what model, but assuming it's an S9 farm with 5-cent electricity or less, in an ideal enviroment, it should work.

While I agree with 80% of what is said, I think any focus on backup is largely wasted money. There is very little risk to a miner from an unplanned shutdown. Yes, mining time is lost when the lights go out, but that's it. If you have unstable power with frequent outages, then you have a different problem, that backup is unlikely to solve.

Mining is does not need a Data Center environment. Extensive backup and redundancy in power isn't free, and is unlikely to pay for itself.

I am basing this on the general reliability of of the USA electrical grid. Your environment may be different.

he can backup the router, it is all I back up.  it is cheaper. run just the router and the switch

[QuintLeo]

Can a mining farm still break even with S7s nowadays? Electricity cost and increased mining difficulty has made it a very daunting task to accomplish.

9 cent power  no

5 cent power maybe

3 cent power yes

3 cent power, the only places I can think of are in the middle east or certain areas in Africa, definitely other cost come in at that point.

 Chelan and Douglass counties in Central Washington for small miners, add Grant County if you can get to the 200KW+ consumption range to get on it's low-end "industrial" rate ("general" business and residential rates are closer to 4.5 in Grant, but the RENT rates and availability is a lot better than in Chelan or Douglass).


 It's not all that cool in the summer, but it's DRY which makes evap cooling practical.

[notlist3d]

Everything depends on cooling, power costs, backup, and area available. Your area should be neat, as to make cooling as effective as possible. You'll want cheap electricity in a cooler place, so you won't use as much power on cooling, but still need especially cheap electricity. Cool and cheap is a huge factor, which is why many farms are located in Washington state in the US. You'll want extended backup to keep things going in case of power going out; it takes time to shut miners down safely. There's many more factors like cost of miners and what model, but assuming it's an S9 farm with 5-cent electricity or less, in an ideal enviroment, it should work.

While I agree with 80% of what is said, I think any focus on backup is largely wasted money. There is very little risk to a miner from an unplanned shutdown. Yes, mining time is lost when the lights go out, but that's it. If you have unstable power with frequent outages, then you have a different problem, that backup is unlikely to solve.

Mining is does not need a Data Center environment. Extensive backup and redundancy in power isn't free, and is unlikely to pay for itself.

I am basing this on the general reliability of of the USA electrical grid. Your environment may be different.

he can backup the router, it is all I back up.  it is cheaper. run just the router and the switch

I also keep a backup PDU around.   One day for some reason a PDU I was using started acting up... and I did not have a extra then.  It scared me enough thinking of downtime from a PDU I bought a decent deal on ebay.

I had to run a decently long network cable to get to my mining area so also have a few big ethernet cable's.  As they are so expensive locally vs buying online.  So kinda have a stockpile of random part's/pieces that local prices are crazy on.   It is amazing going to local bestbuy or similar store and comparing prices to some of the online stores.