We have a NAS, but he doesn't want me messing with it. 🙄
for full nodes i highly recommend mini pc's
they don't need to be very performant, 4gb is enough even, just the disk needs to be decently fast and big - most of the data processing happens in one thread by necessity of the way the chain structure works
it's been a while since it was remotely practical to use a HDD, though probably a loud screaming 10k RPM 5.25 might almost do it
but for basics, just a 2.5" SATA SSD and a second one to dump the chain onto once in a while so if it has a failure like nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcqyqpk2v724perw62x6nj0m6jvrgzyrmdr3j3dnk2p0wekqpkt42l4s3v0jrr is talking about you don't have to wait forever to have it come back online
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anything less than a 10Gbit network connection to the disk is not gonna be much fun, 5Gbit is adequate
My cluster gets by with a 4gig lacp across 3 nodes, haven't really noticed any performance degradation for what I do. I guess caches make the most of it.
people say cln doesn't support pruned nodes but that could just be boogle not letting us search for stuff in the last 5 years cause it seems like both cln and lnd support pruned nodes. a lightning head would know more i can vouch for lnd at least, and litd. ⚡
The only way I got cln to work was with a full node. I think there is a way to prune it after a while, but if I already need 600gb of space to get is started I guess Ill just keep it. When cln starts up it requests genesis block forward and if it's not there it fails and logs an errors something like "missing block data, cln doesn't support pruned nodes"