I have jumped into BTC and I've started to come across an issue that I don't see explicitly in any of the hardware support threads but maybe my search-fu isn't up to snuff. Anyway, here's my issue. I bought 10 BE Blades with the backplane from bitmit. I also bought a server PSU (
https://www.databug.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ATSN-7001044-Y000) that plugs into the backplane. I configured everything and I was off and running. I have each blade configured to hit two mining proxies, one running on a raspberry pi and the other on a laptop, and those proxies point at BTC guild. Everything was running smoothly for about a week or so and my PSU was drawing about .75 kW/h.
Now, 7 out of the 10 blades are running about 2 GH/s below the rated norm and my PSU is only drawing about .65 kW/h. If I reset the blades they all climb up to their normal levels, around 10.5 GH/s but then after a few minutes they start to decline back to around 8.6 GH/s.
OK, I think I solved it. Apparently, my raspberry pi mining proxy (which has been fine up until yesterday) wasn't keeping up with the traffic. I disconnected it and everything is going through the laptop and the speeds are starting to rise and the draw on my PSU is back up it .75 kW/h. This is very odd to me but I'll keep an eye on it.
