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Interesting. The Pi is energy efficient tho.. Where are you located?

A rpi pulls ~5w (little more I think). These desktops pull 35w at full utilization with a cpu 5 times more powerful. An old laptop might be 65w or even 90w but would still outperform the pi with ease while giving you a battery backup along side a built in mouse and keyboard for convenience. Plus upgradability as far as ram goes.

But what good is sipping power when they regularly go down? I’d rather spend a tad more to have reliability.

I’m out of Chicago. I just had 2 plebs pick up desktops at our bitdevs, where I brought in HP Elitedesk 800 G3’s, HP Probook 450 G3’s, & Intel NUCs to showcase tradeoffs between hardware choices.

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TK 2y ago

You've got a point.. I'm in the Netherlands so shipping old hardware is a no go😅

But I'm intrigued by the old laptop idea..

On what OS do you run the node's?

Dimi 2y ago

Lol ya, sorry, you’re on your own there.

I’m preloading Proxmox, what’s called a type 1 hypervisor. It lets you run 1 or more virtual machines inside 1 or more physical machines. I liken it to internally commoditizing compute, storage, and memory so that you can utilize them best.

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Dimi 2y ago

So you can choose what OS the bitcoin virtual machine (VM) runs, and that may be different from what your mempool container’s OS is. It’s totally up to you, proxmox does all the heavy lifting.

TK 2y ago

Thats an interesting approach, thanks for the tip.

Do you have experience with UmbrelOS?

That looks like a easy solution.

Dimi 2y ago

Na, never bothered. BUT, you can even run THAT in a vm 🤓🤣

Their hardware is STUPIDLY overpriced. You can do better on eBay without much effort.

Dimi 2y ago

Was informed they dropped the price down since I last checked. Still beatable but less insulting