Antminer has less power consumption so many people seem to prefer antminer.
However if you really think about the life expectancy of miners,
it is only about 6months not because of the product quality but due to the difficulty raise.
If you calculate the actual electricity cost difference for the 6months, it is not that much than you think
so this brings to the point that important thing is the the price difference.
It is of course depending on the electricity cost of your location.
The above example price of Avalon at 2.4Btc and antminer at 2.6btc, it's 0.2 price difference and the
electricity cost difference for 6months would exceeds 0.2 btc at current rate so i vote for antminer.
But the avalon price is going down and there're some sellers at 2.1~2.2btc eventhough i'm not sure
if the resellers are legit. If the price difference is more than 0.4~5 then i would choose avalon.
You also need to consider the delivery time on both products and there're more avalon resellers so you would have better chance to purchase avalon from existing stock for fast delivery. In this case,
it may be better to purchase avalon in stock and start mining faster.
Avalon seems easier to fix by just replacing parts but don't count on me on this because i only run several avalons and haven't received my antminer order yet.
In overall, both products are good choice now until tera hash miners launch in the market at decent price i think.
Well the difference in the price is a something to look at as well, but avalons can be bought through wire transfer or paypal which for a guy like me that doesn't have a whole
BTC yet, it makes it a little more inviting. But yes, I can agree the massive difference is power consumption is something to look at. These products are all just stepping stones until the better rigs come out.
