Any Apollo firmware updates in the works ? Any chance of faster hash speeds ?
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No, any future updates will increase the reliability of mining, and probably some voltage/efficiency gains but hash speed will remain between 100-140 MH/s. Im focused on brining the big functionality updates like full node/wallet functions etc.
Would be great for full node to have the possibility to sync the blockchain to an external drive so that it preserves SD card
jstefanop would really need to come up with some strange implementation in order to block such possibility.
The blockchain is just a collection of files in some directory. Since access to the mcu and its filesystem isn't blocked, reallocating a directory to a connected external disk will be possible even if such option doesn't get implemented in the user interface. I don't however think that having the blockchain on the sd card could cause an issue with card wear as the blockchain progresses with a clear pattern instead of random writes. Random reads on the other hand don't really matter as long as the read performance of the sd card doesn't become the bottleneck. The benefit on having the blockchain on an external drive (or usb stick) would be to keep the option making the Apollo software upgrade with full sd card overwrite without having to start from scratch with the blockchain.
I was thinking to avoid the system to swap during initial sync of the blockchain. Regarding the poor memory on the board, https://i.imgur.com/GWmgOri.png, dphys-swapfile will be used and thus lot of read-write to SD card.
I made full LTC and full ETH on Raspberry Pi and used an external SSD with full system migrated on it + swap partition.