500GB or less0.0%
500GB-1.5TB26.5%
1.5TB-2.5TB55.9%
2.5TB-4.5TB17.6%
4.5TB-8.5TB0.0%
More than 8.5TB0.0%
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64 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 25 May
That's a rather personal question
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 25 May
Never ask a node runner their size
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 25 May
1 TB at the moment, but I will upgrade to a 2 TB soon.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 25 May
Very simple 2 TB for my node but I also prune, but have a separate NAS I could always utilize if desired with 30 TBs space for my Plex media server.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @FutureProofDad 25 May freebie
I have read that a 2TB drive will future proof your node. I am going to go for a Umbrel node and try and run the lightning network on it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 25 May
Actually my last main-net node is made from: 256Gb of SSD and 3TB of HDD for data.
Byt my testnet node has 128Gb of SSD and two 2Tb HDD in mirror
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RideandSmile 25 May
it depends also when the node started
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @rootmachine 25 May
If you're talking about laptop storage, I'm currently using a 1TB SSD. But I mainly rely on the cloud—got about 5TB there for most of my files. Local just for speed and essentials. :)
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 25 May
He’s asking about your Bitcoin node, where you store the blockchain
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @rootmachine 26 May
ahhh. I must have been sleepy when I answered. Anyway, I was told by the person who introduced me to BTC that people should not be running BTC nodes on their main PC or at least on one that they don't run 24/7.
was he wrong about this? should we run nodes on our PCs?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled 26 May
Your node is your personal property, so there's not really anybtubg your 'should/n't' do with it.
That said, you can run a node on any pc with a network connection and ~7GB of storage. The important thing is that it is synced to the network when you are verifying transactions.
Syncing the entire network takes a significant amount of time now (could be >1 week last I checked depending on your hardware).
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