BAIKAL GROUPBUY 2 - 10% DISCOUNT - Mini and Quad 200 units max - GROUPBUY OVER

[bittawm]

Hi Great review. Btw can you point each of 4 miners to different pools or algos. Or they work as one?

Hi, thx. No, the miner works as 1 single unit. I dint' find an option in the GUI to split the miner into 4 subminers. Maybe someone from baikal can comment this question?
What you can do is switching pools on the fly through the GUI. It takes a while but it works great.

I think the only difference between the single unit and the tower is the cord that connects them together.  So unplug that cord, plug in 4 ethernet cables and configure each one separately to a different pool.

I just see one ethernet plug at the bottom of the miner...so no possibilities to enter 4 cords into each unit.

a quad has 1 controller

minis have 1 controller

gianst have 1 controller


it is possible to connect giants to giants to make a mega miner or quads to quads

[DebitMe]

What kind of power solutions is everyone using for a tower?  Having to plug in 4 of these would probably be best done with a ATX PSU, but anyone know where to get 6 pin to barrel plug adapters?

[thesavoyard]

Very interested, I'm in France, how will shipping work?

[kurbeks]

What kind of power solutions is everyone using for a tower?  Having to plug in 4 of these would probably be best done with a ATX PSU, but anyone know where to get 6 pin to barrel plug adapters?

Acording to video and one review here. Quad comes with adapter, so you can plug these into ATX PSU.

[Marvell1]

after over 120 units sold in the last groupbuy:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1692452.0

Baikal is stil going to continue to honor this agreement please use the code: "Bittawm" when purchasing/communicating or purchase through me

10% discount

this groupbuy is for minis and quads

there is a maximum of 200 units available at this discounted price (quads count for 4 and minis count for 1)

I dont see any pricing info on quads

[galixxx]

What kind of power solutions is everyone using for a tower?  Having to plug in 4 of these would probably be best done with a ATX PSU, but anyone know where to get 6 pin to barrel plug adapters?

Acording to video and one review here. Quad comes with adapter, so you can plug these into ATX PSU.

Yes, it comes with an adapater to PCI-E. I am currently running the miner on an existing rig. This is not an ideal solution. Everytime I restart the rig the miner goes down as well.
Any suggestion what PSU would be suitable?

[galixxx]

What kind of power solutions is everyone using for a tower?  Having to plug in 4 of these would probably be best done with a ATX PSU, but anyone know where to get 6 pin to barrel plug adapters?

Acording to video and one review here. Quad comes with adapter, so you can plug these into ATX PSU.

Yes, it comes with an adapater to PCI-E. I am currently running the miner on an existing rig. This is not an ideal solution. Everytime I restart the rig the miner goes down as well.
Any suggestion what PSU would be suitable?

would that PSU be ok for the miner? Could it handle also two quadruples?
https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-VS550-BUILDER-550w-PSU/dp/B00TE4XSMA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1486800046&sr=8-4&keywords=VS550

[newmz]

I just got one mini for 18.7 DASH including shipping to Australia so thanks @bittawm very much for this!

I have wanted one of these for a long time but people were re-selling them at ridiculous prices. I had one guy on Ebay in Australia trying to get AUS$1200 for just one mini!

I know it will take maybe a year to make that much DASH but I honestly think DASH (with Evolution) is going great places and its price will be steadily rising over the next couple of years.
 
Really looking forward to plugging it in!

Thanks again!

[thesavoyard]

Ok what about the rumors that this will become obsolete in q3 2017? Think it might have been started to keep competition down?

[galixxx]

I just got one mini for 18.7 DASH including shipping to Australia so thanks @bittawm very much for this!

I have wanted one of these for a long time but people were re-selling them at ridiculous prices. I had one guy on Ebay in Australia trying to get AUS$1200 for just one mini!

I know it will take maybe a year to make that much DASH but I honestly think DASH (with Evolution) is going great places and its price will be steadily rising over the next couple of years.
 
Really looking forward to plugging it in!

Thanks again!

Have a look at whattomine.com. There are coins which are more profitable at the moment than dash. Afterwards you can exchange those to DASH.

[galixxx]

Ok what about the rumors that this will become obsolete in q3 2017? Think it might have been started to keep competition down?

to what kind of rumords are you referring to?

[kcheel]

Just ordered 1 quad and 1 mini.  Thing I like about these miners is that with the power usage so low, they should stay in the green for quite awhile.  Looking forward to getting them.

[Rupucers]

Ok what about the rumors that this will become obsolete in q3 2017? Think it might have been started to keep competition down?

to what kind of rumords are you referring to?

They won't be obsolete. Firstly rumors where with fake skype profile. 2ndly these miners are not so affected by electricity price. So they won't be obsoleted by more effective miner. It's not SHA256 miner.

[lokomotive]

What kind of power solutions is everyone using for a tower?  Having to plug in 4 of these would probably be best done with a ATX PSU, but anyone know where to get 6 pin to barrel plug adapters?

Acording to video and one review here. Quad comes with adapter, so you can plug these into ATX PSU.

Yes, it comes with an adapater to PCI-E. I am currently running the miner on an existing rig. This is not an ideal solution. Everytime I restart the rig the miner goes down as well.
Any suggestion what PSU would be suitable?

would that PSU be ok for the miner? Could it handle also two quadruples?
https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-VS550-BUILDER-550w-PSU/dp/B00TE4XSMA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1486800046&sr=8-4&keywords=VS550

It should be enough. 2 quads are 320W. I wouldn't add 3rd on it though.

[thesavoyard]

Ok what about the rumors that this will become obsolete in q3 2017? Think it might have been started to keep competition down?

to what kind of rumords are you referring to?

They won't be obsolete. Firstly rumors where with fake skype profile. 2ndly these miners are not so affected by electricity price. So they won't be obsoleted by more effective miner. It's not SHA256 miner.

Thanks!

[baikal]

Hi Great review. Btw can you point each of 4 miners to different pools or algos. Or they work as one?

Hi, thx. No, the miner works as 1 single unit. I dint' find an option in the GUI to split the miner into 4 subminers. Maybe someone from baikal can comment this question?
What you can do is switching pools on the fly through the GUI. It takes a while but it works great.

I think the only difference between the single unit and the tower is the cord that connects them together.  So unplug that cord, plug in 4 ethernet cables and configure each one separately to a different pool.

I just see one ethernet plug at the bottom of the miner...so no possibilities to enter 4 cords into each unit.

a quad has 1 controller

minis have 1 controller

gianst have 1 controller


it is possible to connect giants to giants to make a mega miner or quads to quads

Yes, you can connect 4 Giant together and controlled by one orangpi. 5 is also OK, but more than 5 not recommended.

For quadruple, 2 quadruple miner OK. over 2, not recommended.

For mini, 10 units OK, over 10, rejection rate may increase.

[galixxx]

I just got my Baikal Quadruple Miner which I ordered from one of the group buys mentioned in this thread. I just would like to share some experience I've made so far with the miner and with baikalminer.com. I had 2 scrypt miners from Innosilicon and thought I could buy an A4. But then I read the issues they had with multipools and in addition the skyrocketing diff change from Litecoin made me think not to invest in scrypt anymore…at least for the moment 
So as already mentioned I saw the offer via group buy in this forum and thought give it a try since also prohashing.com announced to offer an X11 multipool.
Ordering:
I ordered the miner during the Chinese holidays directly via email. I had few questions to baikalminer.com. Although they stated several times the response time could take longer than usual I got the response every time within few hours. I got my questions clarified, got the BTC address and paid with my hardly earned BTC’s.
Shipment:
The shipment was super-fast to Europe (Switzerland). February 3rd – 7th with DHL. I was on short vacation and postponed it to February 9th. The usual issues with DHL when getting an SMS at 07.30 am stating the delivery will be between 2pm and 5 pm and 15minutes later the doorbell is ringing… 
Unboxing:
The miner comes in a padded parcel which is not bigger than the dimension of the miner itself. The dimension of the miner is 140mm(L) x 100mm(W) x 355mm(H) and the weight 1650g according to the official website from baikalminer.com. It actually comes with all the needed wire. You have a wire with four single power plugs (to feed four units) at one end and on the other end a PCI-E plug which you can connect to a PSU. Alternatively you could buy four separate four power supply 2V/5A which I think I will buy going forward. Currently I am feeding the quadruple through a PSU from an open rig.
The other bunch of wires which got delivered is for connecting the four units together. The following video did help me to setup the miner properly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z8QxuULLlU .
After that I had just to plug in the Ethernet wire into the quadruple and the miner was ready for its first start.
Initial operation:
I was very surprised that the first start was a success. Every unit has three led’s. A red led (assuming is the power led), a blue led which is blinking during the start-up and in the middle of the two a smaller green one which is blinking from time to time (assuming traffic light).
The miner obtains its IP through DHCP setup from your local network (I didn’t find an option so far to assign a static internal IP address to the miner though – maybe through terminal option within the GUI?)  Typing the IP address into a browser brings me to the login page where the standard password “Baikal” is needed.
Now I am into the GUI to communicate with the miner. It has 5 tabs – current miner overview (temps, pool information, hashrate per unit etc.), miner (pre-defined pool information, but also the possibility to enter your individual pool information and some sgminer options), settings (timezone settings, web password change, email alert and some options on remote control functionality), backup (backup and restore options) and terminal (self-explanatory).
Currently mining for approximately 10 hours with almost steady 600MH/S on X11 and quark coins. So far no issues and stable operation of the miner…tbc…

Let me know if you find that review useful or if you have any questions I could answer.

So, after mining a couple of days I must say this one is mining steady as rock. All units are mining 149.8 + or even one with 151. So overall I have constantly 600MH/S. I pointed the miner to quark and X11 and there is no difference on speed. I have constantly 600mh/s.
If anyone is interested in photo's please send me a pm with your email address. Somehow I am failing to post photo's in here... 

[bittawm]

Hi Great review. Btw can you point each of 4 miners to different pools or algos. Or they work as one?

Hi, thx. No, the miner works as 1 single unit. I dint' find an option in the GUI to split the miner into 4 subminers. Maybe someone from baikal can comment this question?
What you can do is switching pools on the fly through the GUI. It takes a while but it works great.

I think the only difference between the single unit and the tower is the cord that connects them together.  So unplug that cord, plug in 4 ethernet cables and configure each one separately to a different pool.

I just see one ethernet plug at the bottom of the miner...so no possibilities to enter 4 cords into each unit.

you can you just need more controllers

[thesavoyard]

Hello Baikal, I am going to your site to buy a miner but I have a small problem. When I go to login, it asks for my username/email, ok no problem, my password, ok no problem, but it has a third line, it asks for a code. I did not get a code or any email from Baikal!

Thank you

[isoneguy]

Hello Baikal, I am going to your site to buy a miner but I have a small problem. When I go to login, it asks for my username/email, ok no problem, my password, ok no problem, but it has a third line, it asks for a code. I did not get a code or any email from Baikal!

Thank you

It doesn't matter...even if you buy on their site you still have to finalize your purchase through skype or email.

Just contact them via skype: baikalminer