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Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
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jstefanop
on 05/02/2021, 17:06:56 UTC
Will be interested in picking up two of the full units when these go on sale later today.

Reading the docs, I saw you are using an ARM chip with at least 10x the performance of a Raspi4, as well as a number of SHA256 ASICs.

Can you shed more details on the the CPU, and the ASIC's ? Assuming the OS is some flavor of Linux ? Does it support WiFi ?

Also, 512gb of storage is on the low end. Will there be a 1tb option ? Does this unit support external USB SSD's for storing the blockchain ?

Most of these details are on the site, but the processor is a 6 Core Cortex A72 ARM running at 2GHz. Yes OS is running kernel 5.9, and is an ubuntu flavor. Wifi is a dual band AC chip, so should work with any setup you have.

On the storage front we had to balance storage and price. 500gig is enough for ~2 years or BTC storage, and it is upgradable so figured its better to go on the low end now with lower price and users can upgrade at half the price in 2 years from now. Controller has USB 3 so fast SSD external storage can be used as well.