I am not trying to excuse BTmine, but I have noticed looking at this forum and others that have Chinese eruptor cubes for sale used, there is a fairly high rate of module failure out of the box new is common!
So, that leaves us the consumers with facts to consider, Butterfly Labs is slower than molasses flowing up hill in winter, but the units I own from the have worked flawlessly. So if we want Chinese delivery speed, we will have to deal with Chinese quality issues.
I wish we could have both quality and speed of delivery, but these do not seem to coexist often in the ASIC's world. As a former RF Engineer I will take the speed of delivery, the best quality I can buy and do some fine tuning and tweaking of the units I purchase. I will still be ahead of waiting for a January order with a March delivery date if I am lucky.
Mtnminer
So, that leaves us the consumers with facts to consider, Butterfly Labs is slower than molasses flowing up hill in winter, but the units I own from the have worked flawlessly. So if we want Chinese delivery speed, we will have to deal with Chinese quality issues.
I wish we could have both quality and speed of delivery, but these do not seem to coexist often in the ASIC's world. As a former RF Engineer I will take the speed of delivery, the best quality I can buy and do some fine tuning and tweaking of the units I purchase. I will still be ahead of waiting for a January order with a March delivery date if I am lucky.
Mtnminer
FWIW, I have 7 cubes and they all worked flawlessly, and I only run them at high clock. I bought them over time, from different vendors even. That said, they are very finicky with what's on your network - I guess you could consider that a problem with them, but once I solved that it was smooth sailing.
I just got my first 2 Antminer S1s in today. I set them up and had to downgrade the firmware to avoid the constant beeping/rebooting, but after that, no worries, and now they're running at 205-ish GH/s each. Nice addition to my btmine unit (that's also hashing perfectly now at 230-ish GH/s, OC'd to 1500).
*shrug* I think most of these take some tweaking, but since I'm an inveterate optimizer, it's all fun for me.
