IMO the biggest concern is whether the hard-drive I/O speed is fast enough to handle multiple full nodes client (assuming you plan to run full nodes client for each coin you own) and LN daemon at same time.
I tried it once with 3 full node client and disk I/O always high (but below 100% usage sometimes).
As for HDD, there's no noticeable performance difference between USB 3.0 and SATA II, so you don't need to worry about it.
But AFAIK it's more likely your blockchain files got corrupted if you store it on external drive.
Topic: Wanting to convert my laptop to a server and bought the wrong size hard drive... (Read 163 times)
March 30, 2019, 04:09:14 PM
March 30, 2019, 04:01:54 PM
I was recently forced to purge my blockchain, so I can't give you an exact value, but it's close to 230 GB. 1 TB will last you many years.
I wouldn't run from a USB drive, due to the crappy cable connection.
I wouldn't run from a USB drive, due to the crappy cable connection.
March 30, 2019, 03:55:29 PM
Question is in bold. Tl:Dr I'm an idiot do your research.
So I knew there were different sizes of hard drive (3.5 inch, 2.5 inch, 1.5 inch) I have a 10 year old laptop which has 2.6ghz dual core processor so I wanted to make a nice little server with alpinelinux hosting a full node and lightning node and a few other coins...
I bought a 2.5 inch external hard drive (external because its cheaper) I watched a video on disassembly (I disassembled a 5tb 3.5 inch one previously and it was quite easy) my issue is that I've realised I've pulled out my old hard drive and it doesn't exactly fit into the docker I have (meaning it's slimtype) and now I'm stuck as to what to do. I have a 1tb slimtype hard drive somewhere I'll probably use instead but I'm curious as to what is recommended by others here as I don't know how big the blockchain is at the moment and my 1tb might become saturated too quickly and be full? Or can I run a hard drive from a USB 3.0 port but that will be much slower than 3Gbps the old 500gb hard drive functioned at.
(I tested all 26 threads on the cpu and all seem to be as expected - running a volt below the maximum and at 198khz each which is about expected).
So I knew there were different sizes of hard drive (3.5 inch, 2.5 inch, 1.5 inch) I have a 10 year old laptop which has 2.6ghz dual core processor so I wanted to make a nice little server with alpinelinux hosting a full node and lightning node and a few other coins...
I bought a 2.5 inch external hard drive (external because its cheaper) I watched a video on disassembly (I disassembled a 5tb 3.5 inch one previously and it was quite easy) my issue is that I've realised I've pulled out my old hard drive and it doesn't exactly fit into the docker I have (meaning it's slimtype) and now I'm stuck as to what to do. I have a 1tb slimtype hard drive somewhere I'll probably use instead but I'm curious as to what is recommended by others here as I don't know how big the blockchain is at the moment and my 1tb might become saturated too quickly and be full? Or can I run a hard drive from a USB 3.0 port but that will be much slower than 3Gbps the old 500gb hard drive functioned at.
(I tested all 26 threads on the cpu and all seem to be as expected - running a volt below the maximum and at 198khz each which is about expected).
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