Dear Minebox Believers,

We’ve been very busy getting the Minebox system up and running. Our facility was prepared and the first devices are now in our pipeline.

Let us start with the special news: we recently learned that in the coming weeks the newer, faster, and even better looking HPE Proliant Gen10 devices will become available. We thought hard about whether it is possible to get these devices into your hands. The answer is YES!

This upgrade is 100% free for Minebox Batch 1 customers. By comparison, the Gen 10 has about 80% more processing power, 8GB RAM, a graphics card by AMD, AES acceleration, and general awesomeness.

With this you will be among the first customers in the world using a NAS based on the latest HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10. and let us know. One advantage of the HP Proliant Gen8 is earlier delivery.

Because of this news, the Minebox Beta Program is now focused on internal testing. We really appreciate the huge number of volunteers, and we’re sorry not everyone can be included in the test group.

Back to the Gen 10, here’s exactly what’s under the hood:

Processor: (1) AMD Opteron™ X3216 (1.6-3.0GHz/2-core/1MB/12-15W) Processor

Cache Memory: 1MB (1 x 1MB) L2 cache

Memory: 8GB (1 x 8GB) PC4-2400T DDR4 UDIMM NOTE: Total of 2 DIMM slots.

Network Controller: Embedded Broadcom BCM5720 Dual Port 1Gbe LOM

Storage Controller: Embedded Marvell 88SE9230 SATA controller

Internal Storage: 4 LFF NHP SATA HDD cage

PCI Slots: 2 standard (Low Profile) PCIe 3.0

Operating system: MineboxOS 1.0

Form Factor: Ultra Micro Tower

We want to express our gratitude for your patience, support and trust that you have showed towards our company, product and team.

For non-beta testers, under the new timeline you can expect shipments to begin sometime during the last week of September and first two weeks of October.

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Thank you for your support.

Minebox team