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Board Hardware
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
by
philipma1957
on 09/06/2021, 12:05:55 UTC
Full Node finally finished the blockchain sync. Any guess as to when we will need to upgrade the 500gb to something bigger?

2 years
Full Node disk space additions without address index and also ignoring blocks/index:

Dec 6.1G
Jan 6.4G
Feb 5.8G
Mar 6.4G
Apr 5.8G
May 6.4G

So going on 6.1G a month and a 512GiB drive holds 460GB in disk space (and ignoring anything else there)
and current is 383G, the answer would appear to be 12.6 months - if you let it fill up and didn't care about it failing due to that.

Just hope there's way less transactions due to a lower BTC price, and I guess then it may make it to 2 years?

wrong ratios

395 against 500

you have 105 left over

so 105/6.4 = 16.4 months or 1 year and 4 months.

or 105/5.8= 18.1 months of 1 year and 6 months

Either way too short and my guess of 2 year is also too short in the sense that nodes support network and need to run for decades not months.

Frankly I complained about this to the builder in a post here or on the other thread.



I would say the 500gb choice was wrong and I did say it.

In fact I will be this  cloning the crucial 500gb to a crucial 1tb this week.

I will be making a YouTube video and linking the effort of cloning the drive in my review thread.

Sometimes things are done stupid cheap ('Pennywise pound foolish')

I have found that the drive is too small and that the feet are too short.
My YouTube video shows the larger feet I added.