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Later this year we are planning to start offering plug and play nodes and payment servers. We are currently testing @Printer beauties. The ronindojo bokuto and btcpayserver enclosure. Hack0 hardware with 2TB for the node and 1TB for the @BTCPay Server. This hardware should last longer (~decade) than our raspis (1-3 years they only lasted). We’ve been testing quite some setups but these are real beauties, proper proof of work which i can really appreciate. The node took ~5 days to sync the bitcoin timechain. There were some issues with starting the plug and play btcpayserver, which we’ll solve soon. It’s great going through these testing cycles and be in toch with fellow pleb builders in Europe. I’m really happy to see the free open market is so decentralized. Can’t wait we start supplying more plug and play sovereign devices soon. We are most likely going to need them in the future.

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Jeroen Ubbink jeroen@blackbyte.nl 1 year ago

Do the rpi's actually malfunction or is it maybe just the sd-card that breaks down? I know (from experience) that sd-cards are notoriously bad if you write to them often. I've had an rpi setup that lasted only about 9 months because i was capturing my (electricity) meter every 10 seconds and writing a small file (~100 bytes) to the card. After i changed it to write that file to a memory disk it ran fine for about 6 years and all i did was occasionally install some OS updates. However i think for your setup it might be wise to upgrade it anyway. The bare boards are relatively cheap but that is only if you don't count all the peripherals you have to additionally buy to make them actually work, like adapters, sd cards, maybe some kind of enclosure..

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Printer GoBrrr@printer.gobrrr.me 1 year ago

There are no Raspberry Pi's or SD Cards in this build at all. The one issue Bert had was totally my fault, as I mislabeled an emmc storage unit and installed the wrong one because of it.

Bert Bert@primal.net 1 year ago

The nice thing about the hack0 built is that there is no SD cards involved. I agree it’s one of the weaknesses of the raspi. Also depending on the node software you run, and you use a fan it can be really noisy. If you use passive cooling on the pi that was not put there properly it can overheat. We’ve seen quite some pi failures with different causes. A hack0 is a totally different kind of build which I think many would appreciate.

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Printer GoBrrr@printer.gobrrr.me 1 year ago

It has lots of potential indeed, but I'm obviously biased. Another pro of passive cooling is that there are no moving parts or bearing which all break eventually after a certain amount of time. The weakest link is the NVME, which should be replaced after five to six years.