Quote from: Cricktor on Today at 03:19:16 PM

Quote from: bittyuser on Today at 02:22:31 PM

I am using a 1TB Samsung T7 external SSD and tested the SSD and got about 350 mb/s. The SSD is connected to the blue USB port in the pi 4. Btw I am using Bullseye as per the guide. Apparently tried with Bookworm and there were permission issues that I couldn't resolve.

You can run into an issue, when your SSD demands too much power from the Raspi 4B. A Raspi 4B can only provide a total power budget of 1.2A@5V (or 6W) for all its USB ports combined! Not exactly sure about the Samsung T7, it will mostly work but maybe can overwhelm the Raspi.

With only 4GB of RAM you will later in IBD run into I/O intense periods when chainstate grows way larger than 4GB and you can't give sufficient RAM to dbcache (see below).

The OS shouldn't be much of a factor here.

From an own full IBD experiment started somewhere in June 2023 with an Umbrel node that only ran a Bitcoin Core container via Tor on a Raspi 4B with 8GB RAM and a 1TB SATA SSD connected with an USB3-to-SATA adapter with UASP properly activated and working, I experienced a full IBD within about 95h until full sync with onlynet=onion, onlynet=i2p basically (I also had a dbcache=4883 in my bitcoin.conf file).

Your IBD will be slower as you can't reserve much more than maybe 2 or 2.5GB to dbcache. During IBD you may consider to set blocksonly=1 to avoid having to verify possibly incoming transactions.

If anyone is interested, I can provide snips from the debug.log that I preserved.

Yup I have dbcache=2000 and blocksonly=1. Btw how to avoid Tor for faster download? Do I need to comment out the network portion of my bitcoin.conf and stop tor.service from running? I really wanna get this download faster.