Topic: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? (Read 1139 times)
Less than 5% of my laptop hard drive.
Switched to electrum so no blockchain locally for me. It wasn't practical running bitcoin-qt on a 1Mbps connection anyway.
Storage is dirt cheap nowadays, i guess the only issue is when your drive crashes or the data gets corrupted you'll have to redownload it.
I'm running a full node, and the blockchain is up to 10.1 GB, so technically none of the above.
Unfortunately when I first started, I went with bitcoin-qt. It never sync'd fast enough so eventually I ended up running bitcoin-qt over ssh+x, just to extract a few fractions of a bitcent. Lately I've been using web-wallets due to my poor little android tablet breaking a month or so ago.
I'm running three full nodes at the moment.
whole 9 gb of qt
I wonder - how well does it compress? Too lazy to try it out instead of asking.
Also - how do you change the default location of qt appdata folder to something else under windows?
I wonder - how well does it compress? Too lazy to try it out instead of asking.
Also - how do you change the default location of qt appdata folder to something else under windows?
I just did a hard drive cleanup, and realized I had tons of copies of the blockchain from different stuff - multiple datadirs, virtual machines, pynode, torrent & torrent bootstrap candidates, zipped up copies, multiple computers, etc.
You should have a backup of an updated blockchain if you use a full client though (just copy the whole Bitcoin datadir with subdirectories except for the wallet) - it will save you a lot of re-downloading or importing in case your Bitcoin craps the bed.
How much blockchain bloat are you storing?
You should have a backup of an updated blockchain if you use a full client though (just copy the whole Bitcoin datadir with subdirectories except for the wallet) - it will save you a lot of re-downloading or importing in case your Bitcoin craps the bed.
How much blockchain bloat are you storing?
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