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Re: Most Efficient Way To Run A Full Node?
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pixie85
on 03/12/2020, 21:59:51 UTC
Quote from: ranochigo on Today at 05:57:43 PM
Quote from: Paleus on Today at 05:14:30 PM
May I ask why HDD instead of SSD?
HDD is more cost effective than SSD in terms of per gb costs. While it does run a bit louder, Bitcoin nodes has a lot of I/O activity with it due to the constant fetching of block info to supply to the nodes. Flash storage can degrade over time with constant reading and writing. HDD is more reliable in this aspect.
That's true but even if you use it 24/7 it's going to take years before the disk degrades. It should survive at least 3 years of heavy load.

Blockchain requires over 300 GB, a cheap 512GB SSD will cost you about 50EUR. It's the average price of a computer game Wink

If you want it to be cheap to run you can set up a node on raspberry pi or a micro pc. A micro pc with 4gb ram will cost you about 100 EUR