500 gb its nothing for today tecnology. So imagine in ten years more where we can be. Maybe in our wrist in a smatwatch. Your wallet and the whole bitcoin core in your wrist.
Technology has changed quite a lot since 2009.
Yes, 500GB is nothing for today. And following Moore's Law, in ten years we should have devices holding up to 16TB (doubling every two years) that are as common as 500GB devices are today.
I mean, you can have a laptop today with more RAM (64GB) than a hard disk in 2009. Advances in technology have been amazing.
i have a 2 tb nvme drive just for
games. so i honestly cant see storage capacity for something as important as verifying that your stash is actually
yours as being an issue.
anyway my working copy of the blockchain is on a dedicated 1 tb nvme. it gets backed up several different ways (both on and off site) as having a local copy of the full chain is that important to me.