I have a barely used, 2-year old HP laptop, specs below. It’s slow af to stream videos, overheats easily, and sometimes seems to hate me. (Thus, barely used).
Can I run a pruned node on this?
If so, is anything special I’d need to do, besides breaking out of the Windows-store-downloads-only limitation (already done)..?
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HP 14 Series 14" Laptop AMD 3020e 4GB RAM 64GB eMMc Jet Black - AMD Athlon 3020e Dual-core - AMD Radeon Graphics - HP TrueVision 720p HD Camera
i wouldnt.
its much less powerful than a raspberry pi 4.
if you are budget constrained and have no other options then you could use it for a node..might as well be pruned at that point to live within the 64gb space but will possibly wear that out prematurely.
these types of units arent workhorses and best repurposed to dedicated light duty tasks. e.g. dedicated arduino coding system, or if in to model trains, it could probably run JMRI to act as a control
Do you think 64gb is sufficient for a pruned node? Just looking to get my feet wet with the software and learn some of the basics. No model trains for me 😂
Yes. My travel node that I took to TABConf is a pruned node and I allocated enough space for 1 difficulty epoch for blocks, and rounded up to 10GB. You dont even need that much, I just did for testing.
If possible, limit the read/writes for synching on that eMMC by pulling from another node. You could spin up virtual box on windows or something for a node as well
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That’s what I was thinking. Less a budget issue and more “hey it’s sitting there and I should learn to do this”
I'm not sure how small a pruned node can get but I'd imagine 64gb is not enough space.
Though I think that can be easily solved with a USB hard drive. If you're running a pruned node, you can likely get away with 500gb? If I'm not mistaken, right now the full blockchain is around 512gb.
In fact I'd suggest you simply get a 1tb drive and run a full node. Price-wise I don't think it's a big difference between the two (could be wrong, haven't checked).
Thanks, this is helpful! Do you think the machine (which seems pretty “weak” as far as I can tell) would be able to cope with running Bitcoin core for at least a few hours a day?
If I were you, I would just buy a refurbished computer. I run a node on a refurbished lenovo thinkcenter i got for 250 cad. 16 gb of ram and 1TB SSD. I prune my node because I'm also using it as a server.
I’m also thinking about doing a full and proper node setup, but for a rainy long weekend at home just want to tinker with something that’s lived in a drawer for the last year lol
