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71 sats \ 3 replies \ @john_doe 14 Jan \ on: 1 terabyte hard drive cliff bitcoin
I don't know how people set up their node, but I already switched 1-2 years ago to a 2TB disk, and the machine is the same. I just had to mount a different peripheral.
In my case it is external but with a screwdriver it shouldn't take too much time to swap an old disk though.
In my setup only configuration files are on the machine (with the OS).
I wonder, in your setup you purposefully don't want to use a peripheral, or is it that you bought a node which doesn't have a tutorial to show you how to mount an external hard drive or SSD?
I installed Umbrel on a mini desktop computer and then set up Bitcoin core and lightning on that. It was all in a GUI (after the initial Umbrel install) at the time, as I was just starting to relearn computers out of a newfound passion for Bitcoin. I don’t think I’m going to personally have a hard time with the transition at this point, but admittedly haven’t started yet. So I didn’t buy a node. I made it, but like, the SUPER easy way.
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I think it is a good setup and good motivation as well!
Where do you save blockchain data? Do you have an option to mount an external drive on Umbrel with the click of a button?
In my case I use docker-compose (custom setup) and mount the external drive at boot as specified in /etc/fstab. If Umbrel doesn't provide an equivalent setting, you could ask for a feature request.
The advantage of doing it externally is you could buy separately a NAS to save all that data (let us say it includes family photos), so that you can have an automatic backup in case of disk failure. If you do it for the whole disk on your computer you would probably save uneeded data (related to your OS).
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I just save the blockchain right on the hard drive. As far as mounting an external drive, haven't looking into it yet. I'd imagine that will be the solution if it turns out it's possible. Darth is ALL OVER the Umbrel troubleshooting forum, so I'm sure that when I've got the time to take care of this, I'll probably just be reading one of his guides over there.
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