Quote from: Biodom on September 06, 2016, 02:10:28 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on September 06, 2016, 01:58:18 PM

the price was too low. other then the short warranty it is an easy choice for a low power cost that needs to be quiet.

So buyers are gambling it won't break down. I would have purchased one maybe two but after my s-9's up and died I got scared.

A third one is acting up I will check on it today.

everybody is entitled to a opinion, and here is mine:

it was not low, but ourageously HIGH overpriced, hence not much buying.
90day warranty for a new untested item with a long rotating fan? the item that would breakeven in 400 days with low electricity rate?
Bitmain already knew that there was not much demand since they stopped adjusting btc prices (from $593) several days ago.
They need to decrease their take of the profit pie and give us more, percentage-wise, then units will flow.

i agree with pilip - this probably had a solid demand for it.

there are a lot of people in the forums who buy a single S7/S9 unit from bitmain, then post dozens of questions or "custom mod" threads as they try to figure out how to operate it in their living room. The answer is typically tat they cant, or that it has to be underclocked to <10TH

thats where this unit steps in. its quiet by default, and if you compare prices of a 10TH S9 againt this at 8.4TH they are about equal (in terms of TH/BTC)

sure, its not as profitable as running the S9 as hard (and overclocked) as possible, but not everyone has a garage/shed/datacenter to do that in. but a lot of people DO have "free"/subsidized electricity that could be put to use if there was a miner quiet enough to run in their home.

think of students - a dorm has free electricity but you would never get away with running an S9 there (you wouldnt be able to sleep in the same room, and possibly get noise complaints). The R4 might work well in tat situation though, and thus ROI in a year or less.

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