Out of the 4 S9's I purchased, 3 were due end of January and 4th end of February. I already got the first 2 weeks ago, 2nd delivering today and just got an email that the 3rd is shipped. I'm excited to be getting them early but I'm also wondering if this is common or is something going on. Maybe to compete better? Maybe the next generation is close? Either way I'm not sure how wise it is to keep buying them when available since something bigger and better could be just around the corner. I am interested in the new canaan 821/841 if the price is right but it's just essentially a slightly slower version of the S9.
With 3 by the first week of January I'm going to have to get them into a data center. Question would be how much I would suffer having to shut them down for 2-4 hours? I know I'll start to ramp down and then back up again but how big of a blow do you think this will be?