After many times being told running a full node on a pi is a shitcoin, I now fully agree.
My new AMD epic server is well.... EPIC.
Zero to 600gb of block chain sync was less than 24 hours. My last PI4 umbrella sync was over a week.
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CPU is def not the bottleneck for chain sync anymore. Seems maybe more of a disk i/o issue. Bitcoin core does this weird dance on load external (blocks already in file) that seems to not efficiently use disk. I seem to have hit a wall of no additional improvement despite upgrading.
Probably at a point. For me, Literally using the same drive. The pi is essentially 90-100% cpu when doing the initial sync, new server was maybe 20%.