Just poke around eBay for old think center minis. Try to get one with no hardrive and minimal ram because you'll be upgrading those anyways. You can snag them for $60-$100 usually, with the power supply. 32 gb ram is about $40 and 4tb ssd is about $200. But you can go 2tb of course if you wanna save $100 or so. 4 isn't needed for anything, just a little future proof.
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Thanks for the tips!
If you're using node software (MyNode) that uses two drives to separate the OS and data, a unit that comes with a hard drive is handy. Then you just add a 2TB SSD/NVMe.
You don't need node software to do that... You just change the data directly in your bitcoin.conf
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