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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @rootmachine 25 May \ on: Sunday Survey: How big a hard drive do you have for your node? bitcoin
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. :)
He’s asking about your Bitcoin node, where you store the blockchain
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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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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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