Just received an unknown Innosilicon machine?

[ambiguitius]

A miner was just donated to the thrift store I work at and I'm interested in getting it up an running if possible.

So far I've identified 2 things:
1. It have 5 big cards, all labeled "Innosilicon Offical Terminator Miner PCBv4
2. It has a raspberry pi (2011.12, Model B?) that was unplugged when it arrived that's missing its SD card

I was wondering if I could get some help identifying the machine and finding an image for the raspberry pi. I've gotten to the point where I assume it's an "A2 Terminator", but I really have no way of telling.
I can take images if need be, just ask.

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[alani123]

Are you sure the miner had writing saying "innotech" instead of innosilicon?

[mikeywith]

So far I've identified 2 things:
1. It have 5 big cards, all labeled "Innotech Offical Terminator Miner PCBv4

This is probably just a rebrand of another miner since you mentioned a raspberry pi it's likely an Avalon mining gear, I am not aware of any Inno gears that don't come with their own control board, so you might be looking in the wrong direction.

Please take a photo and upload it to https://imgur.com/ and post the link here, it will be a lot easier to identify the miner through the picture.

[ambiguitius]

Are you sure the miner had writing saying "innotech" instead of innosilicon?

I did mean Innosilicon, my bad

[ambiguitius]

So far I've identified 2 things:
1. It have 5 big cards, all labeled "Innotech Offical Terminator Miner PCBv4

This is probably just a rebrand of another miner since you mentioned a raspberry pi it's likely an Avalon mining gear, I am not aware of any Inno gears that don't come with their own control board, so you might be looking in the wrong direction.

Please take a photo and upload it to https://imgur.com/ and post the link here, it will be a lot easier to identify the miner through the picture.

Here, I hope these are helpful
https://imgur.com/a/1MYhknb

[mikeywith]

https://imgur.com/a/1MYhknb

This indeed looks like Innosilicon A2, a very old gear that makes about $5 a month nowadays assuming your power cost is 0, so long story short, it's not even worth looking into. sorry I had to be the one to tell you the bad news.

Good luck.

[DaveF]

Yes, as mikeywith said you will loose money running it unless you have free electric. It's also loud. If you have a location that noise does not matter then you can always use it as a loud inefficient space heater.

Digging up the firmware of a 6 year old miner is also probably going to be more work then it's worth.

With that being said, there is a possibility that I might have a copy of it someplace. I can try digging it up, but in all honesty selling the power supply if it works will probably get you more money then mining with it.

-Dave

[ambiguitius]

I probably will just rip out the PSU and Raspberry Pi, find a better place for them, and pitch the rest.
Thanks for the info.

[DaveF]

I probably will just rip out the PSU and Raspberry Pi, find a better place for them, and pitch the rest.
Thanks for the info.

The heatsinks and the case itself are aluminium. The boards are considered e-waste and should be disposed of properly.
You can probably get $0.20 / lb for the aluminium and $0.50 / lb for the boards. Not a lot, but it's something and better then them just winding up in a landfill.

-Dave