By the way Bitcoin (XBT) accounts for a mere 37.0 GB, Namecoin (NMC) comes in at 2.5 GB and Monero (XMR) comes in at 4.1 GB. I run full nodes for all three.
Topic: Opinions wanted on new hard drives for the upcoming block size change... - page 2. (Read 1455 times)
June 02, 2015, 10:42:53 AM
I would second the stay away from Seagate advice. I had a Seagate Drive fail on me after 4 years. I went with 3 TB WD Red drives when I built my RAID 6 array (18TB Raw 12TB home partition on Ubuntu) back in 2013. Now of course I would use 6TB WD Red Drives and build an array roughly twice the size for about the same cost.
By the way Bitcoin (XBT) accounts for a mere 37.0 GB, Namecoin (NMC) comes in at 2.5 GB and Monero (XMR) comes in at 4.1 GB. I run full nodes for all three.
By the way Bitcoin (XBT) accounts for a mere 37.0 GB, Namecoin (NMC) comes in at 2.5 GB and Monero (XMR) comes in at 4.1 GB. I run full nodes for all three.
June 02, 2015, 10:19:25 AM
did some quick looking around on hard drives, one on the "customers also bought" section looked alright, what about this one? the max capacity is a tad smaller (6 GB down from 
though.
though.Do you know the read/write speed, overall quality, average lifespan or any other differences between Seagate and Western Digital drives?
Thanks.
Seagates are known to break faster, or at least the desktop line.
I would go for WD Red, probably better than the Caviar Green.
Or the Toshiba ones, which use parts from Hitachi anyway, so they are solid drives.
If you just want to store blockchain get NAS ones, not fast ones (7200+rpm)
June 02, 2015, 10:01:21 AM
Aren't most blocks today well under the 1 MB limit anyways? If so, then increasing the maximum block size shouldn't affect things too much.
June 02, 2015, 10:00:30 AM
i would not buy one mechanical ever, if you really want to extend your storage size, it is better to look at ssd, faster synching, like for example an Evo
500mb should be more than enough for now, when we will reach 20mb, 1 tera evo would be cheaper and more affordable
500mb should be more than enough for now, when we will reach 20mb, 1 tera evo would be cheaper and more affordable
June 02, 2015, 09:55:49 AM
Do you really need fast hard drives to write a block to every 10 minutes? I guess a very reliable server drive at 5400 rpm would be more durable and energy efficient for this type of task?
June 02, 2015, 09:52:26 AM
I am gearing up for the upcoming block size change. Can anyone give me their opinions of these hard drives to use as storage?
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Seems excessive.
Even if the blocksize limit were to be increased to 20MB per block (seems unlikely at the moment).
And even if the very moment the limit is increased, EVERY block were to be instantly and continuously filled to the limit with transactions.
You'd still only be looking at:
20,000,000 per block X 52,560 blocks per year = 1 TB per year.
Just a single one of those drives is likely to take more than a decade to fill with the blockchain, and larger, cheaper, faster storage is likely to be developed and marketed before then.
June 02, 2015, 09:47:43 AM
did some quick looking around on hard drives, one on the "customers also bought" section looked alright, what about this one? the max capacity is a tad smaller (6 GB down from though.
though.Do you know the read/write speed, overall quality, average lifespan or any other differences between Seagate and Western Digital drives?
Thanks.
Speaking from past experience, WD drives are incredibly reliable. However, the drives I am currently using a Hitachi drive and are probably the most reliable by far; I have been using a 4 TB drive for my PC around 3 years now and have had no problems with it whatsoever.
It should be noted that r/w speeds may depend on the specifications of each drive (spindle speed / SATA) as well as the accessories used (cables).
I also did a quick search as I do not have much experience using seagate drives, but this may dissuade you from using seagate:
June 02, 2015, 09:14:46 AM
did some quick looking around on hard drives, one on the "customers also bought" section looked alright, what about this one? the max capacity is a tad smaller (6 GB down from though.
though.Do you know the read/write speed, overall quality, average lifespan or any other differences between Seagate and Western Digital drives?
Thanks.
June 02, 2015, 08:15:31 AM
did some quick looking around on hard drives, one on the "customers also bought" section looked alright, what about this one? the max capacity is a tad smaller (6 GB down from though.
though. June 02, 2015, 07:58:23 AM
I am gearing up for the upcoming block size change. Can anyone give me their opinions of these hard drives to use as storage?
I am planning on getting a few and running them in RAID.
Thanks.
I am planning on getting a few and running them in RAID.
Thanks.
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