I'd honestly buy a 1TB drive and call it a day. Deleting stuff here and there will just cause you issues in the long run and there's not much to be deleted, anyway. Most of that storage is just blockchain. If you start pruning it, you can basically forget about running Lightning later down the road when they add a Lightning app.
Oh, that's interesting, so pruning to about 500 GB (cutting out oldest 2009-10 blocks), or whatever is the number to keep node running in a month time when it runs out.. Does that cause LN nodes to fail immediately?
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This should be added to Apollo GUI as soon as possible.
Alternatively, you can make a script or one liner to add this configuration option to bitcoin conf file, so affected users can apply this.
I disagree; pruning significantly reduces the utility of a Bitcoin node, and if you're paying an extra $300 for a full unit and run it 24/7, you better get all the benefits of it, right.
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We all know what users *should* do (upgrade the NVMe), but majority will never touch or open their device, 512GB drive will stay there forever, with Bitcoind node crashed. This phenomenon is called
tyranny of the default. Apollo 512GB drive shipped? That's what will be there still when that Apollo will meet its maker in 95% or more cases.
This needs to be addressed.