Planning a btc full node: 💻

Shoul i get a sdd or is hdd enough? 🤔

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Definitely SSD

🙏 will it sync faster?

Yes

Nice 💪

Sync Time depends on many things. Internet speed, hard, cpu etc.

SSDs have gotten so much cheaper already. You could also look into M.2s, but then it’s the matter of the price point 💜

Yeah price is the thing. Need 2.5 ssd, they are always more pricey

What do you mean 2.5 ssd?

2.5 inch

Oh duh 😂

Desktops and laptops have differently sized SSDs

Desktop 3.5”

Laptop 2.5”

Check here to see if you find something useful for your laptop, they are the cheapest in the market, with good quality products

https://www.crucial.com/

Nice, thanks mate 🫂💜🙏

Recommended SSD

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SDD!

Do not get a raspberry pi!

I also have an old mini pc 🙏

Only harddrive is too small so i need to upgrade

YES

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SSD👍

I used an HDD and so far so good 🤷‍♂️

That sounds good. Can you recommend a hdd?

Mine was a hand-me-down from my brother lol. Though I just bought a fairly cheap one off of Amazon and that one has also been just fine. Wish I could remember the name but I can’t 🫤 Think it was just the cheapest 5TB with the highest reviews.

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SDD ofc, syncing the blockchain would take ages with hdd

SDD ofc, syncing the blockchain would take ages with hdd

Ssd

Building it yourself?

Yes 💪

Best advice I could give without being asked (lol) use chatGPT while putting it together

Uuhhh good idea thanks 🙏

Node will take ages to sync with HDD.

Ok thanks 🙏

2TB NVME. They’re reasonably priced now and the performance is worth it and you’ll have enough room to last a few years.

Plus, if you use Fulcrum (recommended), it adds another 100GB+ of indexed data.

This NUC plus a 2TB NVME and 16GB of RAM is a pretty good deal and isn’t much bigger than a Raspberry Pi 4 and at current prices, it isn’t much more expensive either.

Thanks, but i already have sourced an old mini pc, only need disk space for it

Ah, yeah, SSD at minimum then. But if has support for NVME, even better.

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A node does constantly read/ write to the hard drive. A SSD is much faster than a HDD

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