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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What are the downsides to 8MB blocks?
by
fonsie
on 29/08/2015, 15:32:13 UTC
If you don't want any problems you don't store your blockchain in HDD. You need a good SSD. Running Bitcoin Core is very expensive even right now.

And why exactly is that?

I think my HDD can handle writing a 8MB block every 10 min, luckily I also have some RAM, doesn't your PC?