[ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs

[opentoe]

Can the SP10 be setup on its side when using no rack? Of course I would need something to make sure it wouldn't fall over, but that may be the best way to keep it cooler.

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[wpgdeez]

Does 48 hour 5% special offer add up to 10% discount with a proof of purchase from other manufacturers? 15% altogether?

Not anymore. That 10% was mainly for the GB.

bobsag3 has the right idea really, build your own, forget about all that raised floor, hot/cold aisles, 47U APC racks, redundant diesel generators etc etc. This bitcoin stuff is short term. You just need a well ventilated warehouse with decent aircon and flow. Get industrial shelving to put the miners on and make sure you have enough electricity to keep it going.

Exactly. You not only don't need uninterruptible power, you'll be better of buying cheap, explicitly interruptible power from the utility company using special industrial/agricultural/pumping tariffs. I even dare to say that air-conditioning is an overkill, good airflow (which for SP10 means getting rid of the cases) and maybe cheap, evaporative cooling will be good enough. Get a small UPS to have a continuous network connection just for the local switches/routers and security cameras.

Or just admit to yourself that you've got your Bitcoin mining hardware as a status symbol.

Let's get an Iceland colocation company to have a special room for bitcoin mining with these attributes. Nothing fancy. Power and good airflow is all that we need.

We have a large swamp cooler + passive/active exhausts installed, gives us more than enough cooling capacity for even the hottest days. My prices aint bad either, and this machines are lonely

What are your rates? I have to host or sell this thing, the noise is f'ing ridiculous! Big time buyers remorse

[QuiveringGibbage]

I've started a H/w Hosting Directory & Reputation thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622998.0

Feel free to post your experiences with hosting providers.

Feel free to post your services (i.e. hosting ads).

Cheers,
QG

[Collider]

I talked to a DC in Iceland and they gave me a price of 95 EUR per kW per month. That comes out to about the same price.

Last quote i got was 78 €/kw for small customers, ofcourse this only gets cheap if you order multiple racks (ideally a whole DC container, then they can give you all the cooling you want)

Let's start working some details with them and then let's start a Group Buy for hosting. I am sure that there are a lot of small miners in Europe who would love to colocate their rigs if they will have nice price/kw.

Excellent! Strength in numbers. I like it

(Let me know if you need help)

Thank you for the support!

Collider how would you feel contacting the DC again and start discussing some terms?

@DevonMiner my August SP30 units will be hosted in the WA DC. Don't like it? Or just want a DC that is closer to home?

@bobsag3 keep us updated while we wait for some prices

I will contact all the DCs in Iceland now (atleast all the ones i know of).
(I went to sleep yesterday )

They typically have several electricity lines (or are connected to a ring) so backup power comes from the Iceland power grid, too, all electricity is renewable (hydrothermal).
DCs pay 3-4ct / kwh, price is guaranteed for 10 years.

My guess would be, Tier2 redundancy is enough? (as we aren´t trying to host system crytical servers....)

I just wrote the emails, asking for both a 2 rack and 20 rack high density solution above 20kw, so we should be able to get some rough estimates for bulk power prices.
I also specifically asked how low cold aisle temperatures they would be able to achieve.

If there are additional questions, feel free to state your ideas here (or pm me, i dont know how much spondoolies likes this thread to be cluttered with hosting information)

[Guy Corem]

Got mine setup and hashing away at 1.27 thash. Temp shows 33/74. When I look at ASIC stats most chips are listed as 77 and a bunch showing as 113. Is there something wrong with my hardware?

Got my unit setup and I think that the noise has been downplayed. It is very loud and high pitched and louder than my 21 ants combined. Hope I can get my hash rate up closer to 1.4, getting 1.27 right now.

In ASIC stats 18 chips say 113 and 1 says 119 the rest are all 77. Problem with thermal paste on some ASICS maybe?

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Zvisha will take a look at your machine.

[Collider]

Thor Datacenter Iceland (advania)

We have a special facility for Bitcoin miners. Its a Tier 1 facility with no ups or diesel backup and we use direct air cooling with PUE of around 1,15.
Density per rack is 15-20kW depending on the design of the miners.

The price is 90 EUR per kW all inclusive, power, cooling and internet.

Seems quite nice for some sp10s.
When i first heard about 90€/kW i thought it would be power cost only, not including space. However, this is an all-inclusive solution.

Also, this is 100% renewable, geothermal power.

In Reykjavik, summer lies between June and August with a peak of 13 degrees Celsius which is mild.

[raskul]

Thor Datacenter Iceland (advania)

We have a special facility for Bitcoin miners. Its a Tier 1 facility with no ups or diesel backup and we use direct air cooling with PUE of around 1,15.
Density per rack is 15-20kW depending on the design of the miners.

The price is 90 EUR per kW all inclusive, power, cooling and internet.

Seems quite nice for some sp10s.
When i first heard about 90€/kW i thought it would be power cost only, not including space. However, this is an all-inclusive solution.

that is very reasonable indeed.

[Biffa]

Thats pretty good, is that plus VAT which is 25.5% in Iceland?

Best I have seen is a 1/2 rack in poland with 10Kw for 87EUR per Kw with 10Mb connection

Thats a total price of 870EUR for 21U, 10Kw & 10Mb

[Tovadnok]

Sorry about the uneducated question:

Some DCs quote price per kWh, others quote per amp for a 220v circuit.
What is the correct and realistic conversion between the two? I'm assuming that volts*amps = kWh is missing some efficiency factors?

[Biffa]

Sorry about the uneducated question:

Some DCs quote price per kWh, others quote per amp for a 220v circuit.
What is the correct and realistic conversion between the two? I'm assuming that volts*amps = kWh is missing some efficiency factors?

http://www.supercircuits.com/resources/tools/volts-watts-amps-converter

[Collider]

Sorry about the uneducated question:

Some DCs quote price per kWh, others quote per amp for a 220v circuit.
What is the correct and realistic conversion between the two? I'm assuming that volts*amps = kWh is missing some efficiency factors?

http://www.supercircuits.com/resources/tools/volts-watts-amps-converter

kVolt * Amps is kW
kW * 720 = kWh per month

so 1 Amp @ 220V =0,22kV*1A =0,22kVA = 0,22 kW
0,22kW *720h/m = 158,4 kWh/m

[dogie]

Where can I find the setup guide? Is there a guide for overclocking as well?

http://www.spondoolies-tech.com/blogs/technical-blog/14123781-over-clocking-and-configuring-fan-speed-on-sp10

And in my sig. That one will get renovated some time in the next 20 days.

[wpgdeez]

Where can I find the setup guide? Is there a guide for overclocking as well?

http://www.spondoolies-tech.com/blogs/technical-blog/14123781-over-clocking-and-configuring-fan-speed-on-sp10

And in my sig. That one will get renovated some time in the next 20 days.

Easiest initial setup of all miners by far and I like the interface as well. Thanks for the help everyone.

[guytechie]

As you design more efficent chips for devices like SP30, will you continue to make a < 1200W version for those who don't have the ability to plug in 2 different circuits (single 1 kW PSU)?

[spiccioli]

Thor Datacenter Iceland (advania)

We have a special facility for Bitcoin miners. Its a Tier 1 facility with no ups or diesel backup and we use direct air cooling with PUE of around 1,15.
Density per rack is 15-20kW depending on the design of the miners.

The price is 90 EUR per kW all inclusive, power, cooling and internet.

Seems quite nice for some sp10s.
When i first heard about 90€/kW i thought it would be power cost only, not including space. However, this is an all-inclusive solution.

Also, this is 100% renewable, geothermal power.

In Reykjavik, summer lies between June and August with a peak of 13 degrees Celsius which is mild.

Hi Collider,

are you quoting an email to you from advania?

I had space reserved there for BitMine units, had they delivered, but my quoted price was higher at 120 EUR/kW, maybe now they have a better offer for miners.

They have 25% VAT on imported goods though, so you have to consider that.

This is what they told me about VAT

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> The VAT in Iceland is 25,5%. Companies shipping machines to Iceland
>have to pay this amount when the shipment arrives and get it back
>within 2 months.
>
>For smaller shipments we have usually taken care of this for our
>clients, but if the shipment is very large then we have to charge you
>for the VAT payment and then reimburse it to you within 2 months.

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[Collider]

Yes, that is the quote i got just this morning. However, i told them i would deploy multiple kW, i don´t know how many ants you have with them.

The way you are describing it is, they need you to pay VAT but you will get reimbursed after 2 months?
So basically you don´t pay VAT? Just give a two-month interest-free loan?

[dogie]

Yes, that is the quote i got just this morning. However, i told them i would deploy multiple kW, i don´t know how many ants you have with them.

The way you are describing it is, they need you to pay VAT but you will get reimbursed after 2 months?
So basically you don´t pay VAT? Just give a two-month interest-free loan?

If they're reclaiming the VAT and 'being' the importer, they'll have to pay it upfront and reclaim it from the government every quarter. They're asking for you to cover that 0-4 month delay.

[spiccioli]

Yes, that is the quote i got just this morning. However, i told them i would deploy multiple kW, i don´t know how many ants you have with them.

The way you are describing it is, they need you to pay VAT but you will get reimbursed after 2 months?
So basically you don´t pay VAT? Just give a two-month interest-free loan?

No Ants, they were Coincraft rigs of BitMine

Anyway, if you are a company, you can have it back in two months, if you're not, you have to pay it.

spiccioli

[kendog77]

I bit and ordered a unit last Monday just to see what all the hype was about, and so far I've had issue after issue. Unless BTC goes way up, I'm almost positive this is going to be a money loser. Super...

Normally I pay for miners using BTC, but this time I decided to pay using bank transfer because I was running low on BTC. The Monday payment didn't clear until Wednesday, so the unit didn't ship until Wednesday evening. I wasn't aware that bank transfers were so slow, but that's the last time I pay for a miner that ships "immediately" using bank transfer. Chalk one up to BTC, but it sucks to wait on a slow bank transfer to go through (minus two mining days).

Also, I paid $2900 for my unit, and the price dropped to $2795 plus shipping before my unit even shipped. Add $193 for shipping, and minus 10% using a coupon, and the price comes to $2700. That means I paid $200 more for a unit that didn't even ship until after the price drop.

Also, my unit was supposed to be delivered on Friday morning, but it either got delayed by customs or FedEx sucks, so it's sitting on a loading dock and won't move again until after Memorial Day on Tuesday. I called Fedex and they told me that there is no way I can even pick the unit up before Tuesday. It would have been delivered on Saturday, but Spondoolies didn't pay for Saturday delivery, so that's a loss of another 3-4 mining days.

The difficulty also just went up 18% because it looks like the market is being flooded with AsicMiner Gen3 chips.

This is really screwing up what is otherwise a great Memorial Day weekend.

[Collider]

Having problems with shipping is nothing spondoolies can change, you would have to take that up with the shipping company.

As far as i know they chose the freight company in the best interest of the customer.