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Re: DRILLBIT SYSTEM Miners - Thumbs $130 (10 left), 8 Boards (0 left)
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pyra-proxy
on 19/11/2013, 21:32:50 UTC
At least from me, all boards will then be tested again (Not sure how long... suggestions?)

I think a fairly short period of testing for each piece of equipment should be enough. You can weed out the extremely unlikely DOAs that made it past the fab's QC that way, and any absurd error rates/slow hash speed/other problems can be discovered by the end users and exchanges can be worked out between the unfortunate party and Barntech rather than you and Barntech.

Much as I enjoy getting extensively tested, guaranteed to be good equipment, it doesn't make a lot of sense to delay everyone for the sake of catching a few possible problems.
Im ok with testing every piece of equipment for a short period of time if people are ok knowing its not "brand new" so to speak.

This is part of the reason I recommended just a good test on a random-ish sampling of say 1/10th of all the boards.  Most remain factory new, the ones tested are assured quality and a couple of RMA's/DOA's can happen pre-customer.  It also gives a warm fuzzy to you (bobsag) and barntech what a potential failure rate to expect is.