I get it, you're thinking this is an April Fools' joke since it's April 1. But trust me, it's the real deal.
(check out these homemade branding samples)
I still have to tweak the housing a bit and add a big logo, but here’s a fully working prototype of the new Terminus R606. This baby builds on the R808 and NewPac USB designs and has been in the works since January, in secret.
This thing could potentially hit a peak hashrate of over 1100GH, but that's not set in stone and might need a better fan. It's meant to be cool, quiet, and user-friendly. Don't worry, though, it’s not weak; the default settings should get you around 600GH, and possibly up to 700GH with ASICBoost switched on, all from a 12V 5A power supply. Right now, my tester is pulling 820GH with 12V/6.1A, and the heatsink temp is just 50C hardly any noise at all.
If you’re coming from the R808, you’ll spot some clear upgrades. First off, it's fully enclosed, making it a lot safer and easier to handle. Then, it has dual heatsinks, so cooling is way better. Plus, there’s a standard 80mm quiet case fan that you can easily swap out without hunting for rare parts, and it also helps cool the Vcore regulator for better overclocking.
The usual ports are still there a USBA 5V output for a small controller, a 12V input from a barrel (now rated for 8A instead of the 5A on the R808), and a 6-pin PCIe. And here’s a cool new addition: push-button voltage control. No more fiddling with knobs and guessing your settings.
We will be taking orders for the new pod miners, so please feel free to inquire within, or contact us via our new storefront here: www.amazon.com/shops/MinersSupply
Such low power consumption and high hash rate how about the future price
Is it also required KFC verified when ordering and shipping this machine?
Happy April fools day!
Price is TBD. I'll probably be doing more coordination with resellers regarding an MSRP and the like but those negotiations largely haven't happened yet.
As far as I know, no KYC (or fried chicken) is required for buying from anyone I distribute to.
I may open limited direct sales on these, depending on who I know that needs a job, but won't make any promises. For now the safe bet is to talk to your preferred reseller.
The power light is orange. My primary PCB supplier doesn't have an orange soldermask option and arranging it would have been super expensive while also going mostly unseen.
You'll have to be more specific, because I have no idea in what case a USB splitter would be useful for this device.
Ok, question edited for more clarity. Using my hub would be kind of a waste, because this guy draws almost exactly zero power from USB, but yes given the limitations of USB I believe you should be able to run at least 3 up to absolute maximum speed from a single source. (assuming ASICBoost is enabled, which is required to reach top speeds anyway)
Sorry my session timed out before I could edit. So any USB A hub can connect a few of these then?
I'm an edit fiend today.
Thoughts on https://www.tripplite.com/usb-hub-10-port-hi-speed-2.0~U223010
https://www.tripplite.com/rugged-industrial-usb-2.0-high-speed-hub-15kv-esd-immunity-metal-case-mountable-4-port~U223004IND
Those Tripplite industrial hubs are very nice. We use them on our systems as they are built like a tank, near bullet-proof, have tighter than normal plug retention plus can be fed off of our 24vdc system buss.
A comment on USB.
As implied by that these are built on NewPac tech, this board features Bitmain BM1387 (S9) ASICs. Bitmain chips don't have much of a work buffer, and when initialized each chip in the data chain is addressed in such a way that the nonce range is divided up somewhat evenly amongst them. If I understand correctly, the address basically becomes the upper-byte starting point for each chip to parse the 32-bit nonce range. Once that range has been exhausted, in order to prevent wasted work, a fresh pile of data needs to be sent in pretty quickly.
USB2.0 can transfer enormous amounts of data rather quickly using bulk transfer packets. However, the number of packets of any size transferred per second is limited. Because Bitmain chips can't pre-buffer work, and because each chip gets a portion of the load (as opposed to say Innosilicon chips, which can buffer two unique work units per ASIC), fresh work has to be pushed in in fairly small increments rather quickly. This uses up a lot of really small packets, and maxes out the limits of the bus at around 800GH. I think this is the maximum hashrate one could achieve even with multiple devices on the same hub.
When ASICBoost is enabled, the amount of work data delivered to the chips increases slightly but because each work unit is fully parsed with four unique midstates, the practical effect is work units only need to be updated one fourth as often. Because of timing constraints and increased packet sizes, VH's implementation updates work about 1/3.2 as often, so the maximum hashrate from a single USB connection is roughly 2.6GH which means two or three pods should be able to function at high speed off one hub like this.
Limitations like that are probably a primary reason why Bitmain shifted to a fancier controller board with an FPGA buffering work and doling it out on multiplexed serial lines. When a 32-bit nonce range is divided amongst 60-70 chips it gets burned through pretty quickly.
For future higher-hashrate projects we'll either have to look into board-level work buffering to ease the USB load (and require some pretty fancy firmware) or work with different chips with a more bus-efficient work buffering mechanism (like almost all of them besides Bitmain).