Quote from: bit tired on July 02, 2015, 01:34:06 PM

Quote from: billotronic on July 02, 2015, 12:26:38 PM

Quote from: HCLivess on July 02, 2015, 10:57:26 AM

Quote from: billotronic on July 01, 2015, 07:09:12 PM

What are the specs of the box?

If you REALLY want to go pro with staking, I HIGHLY recommend looking at Odroid U3 with an eMMC card. Those little puppies will run many wallets no problem and are practically set and forget if you are just looking to stake and compound. If you are patient, the odroid C1 is super sexy as well, but they are hard to come by right now and you have to preorder one if you can wait. Even if the U3 or C1 might be over kill, low power arm boards are definitely the way to go for PoS.

Warning, you will need to compile for ARM and often it is pain in the ass. Some coins will not even compile.
Also, they are low on memory for long-term use with insufficient processors for staking higher amounts.
Talking from personal experience with something based on cubietruck (Octacore+4GB RAM) (https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/28625-devices-for-staking/)

I might be looking for something like this in the future: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-New-Thin-Client-Mini-Computer-Intel-i5-4200U-CPU-8GB-RAM-120GB-SSD-4-USB3/1995516355.html preferably Skylake or better

But then, I'm a megalomaniac

Also, I HIGHLY ADVISE AGAINST EMMC integrated memory, it cannot handle small files quickly enough. For example running a NXT node from EMMC/FLASH is a terrible experience, including the responsiveness of the interface. Aim for SSD / standard HDD

also, Raspberry Pi is the least problematic and perhaps cheapest, although the memory isnt particularly high. Also keep in mind that those things do not have BIOS so alternative booting for disk formatting etc. may leave you stuck

lol really? SD cards are notorious for data corruption, how is a Pi the least problematic?

And your bashing of eMMC is based off of running NXT and not any sort of technical information? Fuck me, I didn't know it was opposite day already...

Nobody has recommended using a BeagleBone yet. I recently heard about them but I'm not familiar enough with them to compare them to other alternatives like the pi. Are they any better or worse than the other alternatives for running staking wallets? I think they have better specs than a pi but cost more.

No, thats about it. Going from memory, the pro for the beaglebones was/were that the hardware was 100% open source whereas the pi's had parts that where not (GFX?)