Two servers with double the ram and quadruple the hard drive space. They cost me the same together as one umbrel kit.
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Nice setup, but comparing apples and oranges.
Comparing a server to a server... WTF do you mean? These can run umbrel os if you really to cut off a leg and hamper your performance.
It isnt compact, older processors and do you have SSDs?
not saying it isnt good use of old PCs though.
Nice, super interested in doing this myself
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.
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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