Ok. So why did you make claims that it might have been 100C to deform it? You can practically deform it with your hand. By your own admission you must have known this. Why make such claims?
There is a huge difference in a material being easily able to be bent by physical force and material sitting in a shelf being deformed by heat. I will put a 1.200 watt blowdryer on the weekend against one of my S5s sides (gotta pick one) and we will see the outcome. I will measure the heat at impact, ok?
I know this to be at least partially untrue, but it is all secondhand information. However you and I can definitely agree that things weren't handled right, and that this was not how a hoster should treat their customers.
Yes, and no hoster should have the customer get aid from the police to retrieve his equipment.
Right, and it will be good to have their assistance; keeping in mind that they also have a very strong impetus to avoid both the liability for the hardware and the reputation impact that it would have if they admitted any fault such as automatic shut-off temperatures not working. Bitmain are good guys, I know them, but they are also very clever. If Bitmain can avoid reputation impact by pinning 100% of the blame on another party, they will likely do so even if a failure on their side contributed to 20% of the problem or more.
Agreed. I am suspicious of Bitmain as well, but to have such an error quote in such a short time frame under the same conditions, with only me claiming these errors seems to statistically less relevant and only an option to pursue after all other reason have been ruled out.
50% of what boards? 50% of the pieces of plastic? I'd say that's rough handling or the result of running in a BTC mine. 50% of the circuit boards have a capacitor blown? Now this would be some useful data. Yes, I would agree that if you have 50% of S5 boards with visible capacitors blown like that I'd agree that you either have a major electrical problem(more likely, although I know the electrical is pretty solid there) or a major heat problem(heat affects chips more than capacitors).
50% of S5 boards with visible capacitors blown or similar damages.
What you mean to say is, it isn't helping your angry arguments. Lets just try sticking to the facts, shall we?
Agreed.