Hi guys, I got a question kind of related to this...
A friend of mine got some bitcoins a few years back, now he told me he can't operate with his old laptop (hard disk capacity issues, I guess he can't dowload the whole blockchain, and I say I guess cause I started reading about bitcoins just yesterday, to try to help him with his issue).
Question is, he needs to buy another pc, and the new one will have 2 hard drives (ssd 120gb for the apps and s.o. and another one 1TB). Is it possible to download your wallet and operate with bitcoins in the bigger 1TB HD? or you just have to use the s.o. hard drive, meaning 120 GB will be too little HD space?
thanks for your help
pablo
If your friend simply wants to send/receive bitcoins then downloading the whole blockchain is not necessary, he could download a lightweight wallet such as Electrum. If he wants to run a full node however, then 120GB is small and won't suffice him, assuming that he is going to install Bitcoin Core for that matter, he could change the location for the folder that goes to the AppData folder by default to his 1TB HDD.