1. Labrador hosting is by kw/h metering (I dont have to worry about PSUs), so doesn't matter which miner uses what, I prepay 3 months in advance to get maximum discounts. They get Hydro power so if you have big time mining operations - you need to go to the cheapest power source to see profits. I get full remote access to the miners and also have my own subnet.
Hrmm.. Did everyone invest the same amount at the start?
Thanks, I can see this coming in handy.
3. I retired in Jan 2016 and my group (me and few close buddies) did some serious math .... begged our wives to allow us to do this project -- LOL
--- we made a handsome return during the early ETH and BTC days. We already had about 3GHs ETH GPU farm back then (thanks to Claymore's magic)... that got us going and also got more informed about mining in general - just being smart in when to invest and when to hold coins.
Yeah my wife is eyeballing me daily
Would you say it's too late to get into mining now?
4. My group has 108 x S9s, 120 x Avalon 7s.... about 2 PH farm. About 15GHs X11 farm and small Scrypt farm; 6 x A4s. Let's just say, the BTC & GPU farm pays the cheque..... and the X11 & LTC farm pays the operation (power, rental, etc). So yes, I think me and the group are enjoying our post retirement nicely and most importantly, the spouses are happy to see us learning new stuff/tech/friends... keeping us busy instead of bumming around at home.
How old are you gents? If you had to do it again, what would you do differently? Aren't the BTC miners a nightmare when they break?
5. Apologies my group is paranoid on security and sharing pictures. I am the Adminstrator for the project while the boys manages the Polo accounts, investments and wallets.
Perfectly understandable. What do you use to manage such a large farm?
6. I did share some basic pics on the GPU farm in this thread. I have started to streamline the GPU farm into Biostar Z170 4-PCI riserless format like Phil's - wished I had started like this earlier on -- it could have been so simple to manage and cheaper, rather than wasting hours troubleshooting why my 5th or 6th GPU doesn't work.... or why that blew the PSU and what not.
Urgh.. Those cards must get insanely hot when packed in so close together.. Surely that must push up the temp drastically?
What PSU are you using for those cards? I personally haven't had any issues with a 5th or 6th card. I'm using a Coolermaster 1200w PSU which is pretty decent.