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The Daniel 🖖 daniel@ghostr.org 4 months ago
A lot of people who want to run a full node may not realize this, but it’s no longer possible to use a 1 TB SSD. Once you account for the formatted disk size, and factor in all the blockchain data, which is close to 700 GB, plus your system software, and any other apps you might want to run, you’re already out of space.
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I'm using a rasp pi with a 1tb. It's been good for years and it just doesn't seem to sync. It's not catching up barely making progress
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1776 4 months ago
Yeah I definitely want to spin up a second node with a 4TB so I don’t have to be forced to do it on short notice when the 2TB won’t cut it any more. I just dread doing anything that requires SSH’ing. I do it so infrequently it’s like learning from scratch every time.
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paulo paulo@primal.net 4 months ago
Blockchain size seems to be growing close to 15% per year. It won’t last that long… 😅😓😂
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Rich Nost richnost@nostrplebs.com 4 months ago
Yup. Also consider that bitcoind indexing plus electrum indexing takes up about 120GB. To do anything fun or performant with a node for (optimisitically) the next decade, 2TB is the new standard.
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SatsAndSports 4 months ago
Thanks for the tip. I just ordered my first Raspberry Pi a few minutes ago, and I ordered a 2TB SSD with it thanks to you
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The Daniel 🖖 daniel@ghostr.org 4 months ago
Yeah, I had a 1 TB drive and a RasPi 4 in 2021. I ended up ditching both two years later to get a small PC with 2 TB, and it’s upgradable. You may want to rethink your hardware choice, if not now, after you’ve been using it for a bit. The processor speed makes a big difference.
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The Daniel 🖖 daniel@ghostr.org 4 months ago
The block data itself is under 700 GB, but you also have to add in the indexes and log files, etc. Your node software is just giving you the total size of its data directory.
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