Rock on.

I built my first computer since 1998 while visiting in-laws in Chicago at Christmas. The only restriction was that it had to fit in my carry on bag.

I built a mini-itx with 64 GB RAM, intel 13700k cpu, three 4TB pcie4 NVME drives. With three partitions in raid 0 & btrfs, I get 18 GB/s read and 15 GB/s writes at 128 MB (the size of the bitcoin block files). $1700 before storage. Not a bad deal. No gpu, but I ain’t a gamer.

I can confirm it reindexes the blockchain crazy fast (I’ll have to look at exact time in debug.log, maybe an hour for rescanning blocks.dat…)