Quote from: spiccioli on November 12, 2015, 07:55:40 PM

Ah, ok, so now we're at 1251,00 USD plus as much RPis as we need and they're selling them at 75 USD each, so maybe we can source them elsewhere for less.

spiccioli

They definitely won't knock the retail costs of their pi kits off the total cost of the miners if we source from someone else.
And please remember that the listed prices of hardware are from a recent quote and are likely to change based on where the BTC price goes and qty purchased. We will only know the full cost after we have a certain number of members ready to buy.

Of course, if they jack their price up then I can refund you guys the reservation fee and we can abort the purchase--it's only fair.

Quote from: torepia on November 12, 2015, 08:14:20 PM

Loving it so far!

Are the Pi's pre-installed with some kind of software for running the avalons? Or do we need to do that ourselves? If so, who will do it?
How will you have remote access? Would it be possible to get remote access to the miners web gui for the participants in the group buy? I understand if we can't, just a question.
A easy solution would be to have ssh access to the Pi running the avalon, on some random high-port. Running a SOCKS5 proxy you could just tunnel the web traffic to your miners LAN address.
Tho this is probably a unnecessary security risk to take, and probably would require some management/infrastructure work if you wanted to split the miners into seperate sub-nets.

Again, totally understand if we can't have access. I think I just answered my own question. Tongue

From what I've heard from blockC, the pi's come configured.
Great North Data is not cool at all with giving anyone remote access. Sorry. Sad

The onsite tech will do all those operations himself--I have their contact info.

Another update: Finksy got back to me with an excellent idea on how to deal with 2.5 PSUs a miner while minimizing the cost. He's putting together an option for a 3 month (renewable) lease on all the required PSUs. This of course cuts down our upfront costs by a fair margin and makes withdrawing from the buy much less of a hassle (we simply send excess PSUs back and we renew a smaller qty in the next lease).

If the price is reasonable I would be very excited for this option!