Hi All....I just purchased some Pandaminers that will be hosted in Canada. They come pre-installed with windows but I want to run SMOS.
Is it just matter of me buying some msata ssd drives and flashing them with SMOS then sending them to the hosting company who will swap out the drives?
Will they just start mining as soon as they are turned on with the new drives?
Well did you get the older shorter model b1 that uses the msata .
i don't know what is in the newer taller model.
if it is a msata which i think it is you could flash it with smos and then put in the email to be able to control the gui.
some hints you may want two emails so one panda can mine xmr or zec.
the other panda could mine eth.
i had a pandaminer older style i ran it with smos I also ran it with eliovp os.
eliovp charges 300 for his flash card bios and give you 1 os.
so if you want a lot of pandas it is 400 for 1
then i think he sells the 2nd to 11th os as a 10 pack for 300.
i have not checked prices in a while you need to talk with him.
as i see it 1 or 2 or 3 pandas his pricing was not good
7 or more pandas his pricing may be good.
also you have the newer panda it has rx 470 4gb not rx 480 4gb.
my suggestion is run with smos and if it works well which it should then study the deals offered by eliovp.
I am all smOS because I am small under 30 cards and mining with eliovp is not cost effective