GekkoScience R606 Pod Miner
$315.00 – $365.00
Introducing the newest quiet consumer miner from GekkoScience, the newest addition to the Terminus pod-miner line, the R606!
Select standalone unit if you are going to use the GekkoScience 1200 PSU kit.
Description
This miner, built as an expansion of NewPac tech, is a significant improvement over the previous Terminus R808 with BM1384 ASICs. The R606 is fully-enclosed in an aluminum shell for better air ducting (including better main regulator cooling for high-end stability). Heatsinking is improved for more efficient ASIC cooling, plus the integrated 80mm quiet fan is a standard size easy to replace or upgrade.
The miner features 12 of Bitmain’s BM1387 ASICs (as found in the S9) and an adjustable core voltage (from 390mV to 460mV) using a simple push-button interface to step up or down in 10mV increments with internal calibration and a fairly straightforward LED readout. No screwdrivers or meters necessary!
The Terminus needs an external controller running cgminer, with USB connection to the miner. Every Terminus miner has an internally regulated 5V USB power output (2.5A limit) which can be used to power a small controller like a Raspberry Pi. The miner runs on 12V power from either a standard 2.1/5.5mm barrel jack (rated for 8A) or a PCIe 6-pin jack (rated for more than you’ll ever need).
Driver support is built into a custom built cgminer developed but VH. We have automatic detection of unresponsive ASICs forcing a string reset, which will prevent damage to underperforming chips and recover from “zombie” conditions. ASICBoost is supported and is now enabled by default (with pool support detection), with a user flag to disable it if necessary. BM1387’s implementation of ASICBoost not only improves efficiency by roughly 20% but reduces USB traffic by roughly 70% so it’s basically essential for hitting the high hashrates.
The “stock” speed is about 750GH with an estimated 8A-draw hashrate around 950GH with ASICBoost enabled. Early device testing has seen Terminus R606 hit speeds in excess of 1.1TH; however, since we do not bin ASICs and the stability of the entire string is dependent on its weakest chip, maximum speeds are not guaranteed. We’re still working on acquiring thorough performance statistics using VH’s new auto-tune routine, designed to find the peak stable speed of each device, which is another very exciting driver development.
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July Update
2 reviews for GekkoScience R606 Pod Miner
This miner is INCREDIBLY quiet and with the right settings, I have been reaching hash rates of upwards of 900Gh/s to even 1.1Th/s! with max settings + asic boost! I am still messing around with settings and trying to reach even higher hash rates, but as for now those are the peaks I have reached so far with the machine. Anytime I had questions about the hardware/specific software in cgminer the staff at 419mining were very quick to respond to my emails and have been extremely helpful. 10/10 would recommend to a friend to start their journey into the world of BTC mining.
Ideal as an upgrade from the 2Pac/NewPac sticks, or as an entry into the world of ASIC mining they are surprisingly quiet, and with more than sufficient airflow these little bricks will happily churn out 1TH/s+ relentlessly in my experience. The solid, industrial feel to the unit is reassuring, it’s energy consumption is impressively minor. And it has flashing lights.
Quite how much it will eat depends largely on how fast you run it, and on how cool you can keep it. The builtin fan shifts sufficient air to lower it’s temperature, but in a hot room it will lower it a lot less than a cold room. I find them to average about 100W each, less if I keep the room they sit in cool. Over around a month of operation the most they pulled from the wall was about 112W. 1TH/s+.
With such low consumption figures, renewable energy sources beget attention to reduce operational costs and lower ROI time. Powered by solar or wind these could feasibly become little free money factories.
The USB power output port aids deployment in ‘standalone’ format, using something like a raspberry pi as a controller to sequence data to/from the blockchain. Multiple units would benefit largely from the GekkoScience power bundle, allowing one highly efficient industrial quality PSU to power a rack of R606’s(with each one powering it’s own controller).
The only adjustment I plan to make of the design is to find some way to fit air filters to the intake side.