The Q in Avalon Q Stands for Quiet
Canaan sent
SoloPool.com an Avalon Q to test and review publicly. Eight days in, here's the honest report.
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Build quality is in another class. Out of every home miner we've run, this is the best-built unit we've had on the bench. It's a compact server case, and the entire design is airflow — hex mesh front and back, straight-through path, no dead pockets. That's not styling for the sake of styling. It's why the Q holds its numbers instead of sagging under its own heat.
Noise. There's a brief fan spin-up on boot, and then it disappears. Rated 45–65 dB, and in the real world it's barely audible in the room. If you've ever tried to live with an S19, this is a different universe.
Performance beats the sticker. Nameplate is 90 TH/s ±5%. Ours has settled in at the top of that band and stays there:
Real-time: 94.31 TH/s · 8-day average: 94.36 TH/s
Pool-side 24H: 94.32 TH/s
Power draw: 1705 W on Super mode (rated 1800 W max) → ~18.1 J/TH
Rejected: 0.13%
Ping to pool: 15 ms
Uptime: 7d 22h, zero interventions
Live stats here:
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Power — read this part. The Q wants its own dedicated circuit to run on high. Input is rated to 20 A, and at 1705 W you're pulling ~14 A at 120 V. That's over what you should be asking of a shared 15 A household circuit. Plan the outlet before the miner arrives.
Heat is genuinely well contained for the hashrate. Warm exhaust, no hot spots, no thermal drift over the week. Surprising for a box this size doing 94 TH/s.
Setup. The Avalon Family app found the unit, paired it, and had it configured in a couple of minutes — no laptop, no IP scanning. It runs the legendary, proven cgminer codebase (4.11.1), which means it connects fast, behaves properly on stratum, and doesn't argue. We ran it on the bundled WiFi dongle with zero issues — no drops, no share loss. Ethernet is on the front panel and if you have the choice, take it. But it's good to know WiFi is a real option and not a compromise.
Pointed at
stratum.solopool.com:3333: 196,449 accepted shares, 260 rejected, best share 16.51G. Clean.
The rest of the Canaan lineup on our bench:
Avalon Mini 3 — six-plus months in service, zero issues to report. Visually impressive as a heater, hits the advertised 39 TH/s, quiet in miner mode, and it tells you when the filter needs cleaning. That last detail says a lot about how this line is designed.
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Avalon Nano 3 — we don't have the new 3s to review, but we've had 4× Nano 3 hashing on the pool for what's now over a year. Flawless.
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Verdict: the Avalon Q is king of home mining. At this hashrate and this noise level, it has no real competition — a top pick for the home, the farm, or the garage.
Canaan is building the best home mining hardware on the market right now, and the Q is the proof.
Disclosure: Canaan provided the Avalon Q for review. All numbers above are our own, pulled live from our dashboard and the pool.
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