upgraded by bitcoin core full node to a 4TB drive. should last a bit longer...
Discussion
A 2TB drive has at least 5 years left!
How much time does a 1tb drive have left?
year or so? not sure. depends in txindex settings and whatnot.
I'd like to learn more about txindex settings.
probably not that useful to have on these days, most people just use mempool.space for that. I like it for querying random txids and doing stuff locally.
so if i turn that off i wont be able to use my local instance of mempool?
not sure how mempool works, just referring to bitcoin core
if you run your own instance of mempool, it requires bitcoin core and electrs as dependencies.
Once running your ow instance, you dont have visit the website and just use mempool space locally on your own node.
If turning of txindex will disrupt this, ill just get a new 4TB NVME
Storage become very cheap in the last year even on SSD 🙌
May I ask what do you use a normal OS with Bitcoin Core GUI or something else like start9 or umbrel?
Tried bitcoin core on Linux, mynode, umbrel and ended up choosing start9 for stability, security and ease of use.
I use linux (nixos) with bitcoind running as a systemd service. if I need the gui I shut down the service and open qt.
I run core-lightning next to it as well (I was one of the first 5 nodes on lightning mainnet, and that same node is still running). I probably have the oldest running lightning node.
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When upgrading, do you have to resyncand download all the chain again or is there a quicker way? I am limited on data access and I want to do the same thing. Thanks.