Was thinking of putting my Bitcoin full node on my nas, but this is just unnecessary wear and tear and redundancy right?
Maybe I should just throw in a cheap spinning single drive for the node? 🤔
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Definitely a separate 72000 rpm drive and pass it through They’re so fucking cheap now
7200*
correct.
recycle old hardware to run nodes.
I am running one on an old IBM ThinkCentre Pentium D, 2 GB RAM, 1TB HDD.
GNU/Linux Trisquel - took 3 weeks to download and process the blockchain.
But its been running like a wrist watch for years now :)
I don't think so. It's what a NAS is for, anyway, storing large quantities of data reliably for a long time, which is what you want for a node. I had my node running in my Synology NAS for a long time and just switched to a separate server with a faster CPU, but I still store the chain data on the NAS with an NFS mount.