I bought a Lenovo laptop, about to spin up a lightning node.
I need to expand storage & the laptop has an SD card slot.
Has anyone successfully used this type of storage for a node?
Will I run into an issue trying this?
I can't think of why it wouldn't work 🤔.
#asknostr
Why a laptop ? Do you have blackouts in your area ?
Not really, but I prefer the lower power to my desktop powerhouse.
Yeah, do not rely on an SD card for node storage. You'll burn it out real fast. Bitcoin nodes do a lot of read/write on the disk, and SD cards just can't take it for very long.
Speaking mostly from experience here. Before I started using real computers for self-hosting things, not just Bitcoin nodes, I was burning through SD cards and constantly having to redo my work every handful of months due to an SD card failure.
There's no reason you can't use an external hard drive but the SD card is just not a good option. If you do go the external hard drive option, I would get a USB to SATA adapter.
I have a Yoga 260 Thinkpad, it's an older model.
Do you know if I can just use any m.2 SSD and swap the internal or is there a limit on older models.
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to.
I went to crucial website and they detected my model and offered me compatible ssds just gonna order one of em off Amazon to be sure!
I prefer just going internal than external and having a nice clean setup!
You're preaching to the choir. Less cables hanging around means less things to fuck up. 👍
Should be good to go with anyone I believe. As long as it is the same form factor.
Wouldn't USB nvme reader be better / cheaper?
