You cannot use those two options together
What's the problem with keeping everyone's UTXOs and dumping the blocks? I'm just saying that you can have the same benefits even if you're planning to run an SPV server, without keeping the entire chain, but only the outputs.
Sure, if it's personal use set it to 0.
Edit: My bad.
You're right. I hadn't ever tried it, to be honest, but I thought it would work. Could you explain me why a pruned node can't index all the transactions? The
blocks/index is less than 40 GB and it could be used if one wanted to run an SPV server.
In theory it probably could.
All of us keep going around in the same circle here with people and I hate to be the grouchy person BUT used drives have gotten so cheap I am at this point just e-wasting & recycling 500GB and below because just about anywhere in the Americas (North - Central -South) and most of the EU and ASIA it's actually cheaper to find them locally then to have me ship them.
If you want to run a node get a 1TB drive and....run a node. If you don't want to, then don't.
-Dave