And with the astronomical rise in SSD prices due to AI demand, 2TB SSDs (soon to be a minimum hardware requirement for running a full node) are costing upwards of $300. It's not true, HDD is enough if you already use device with lots of RAM (16GB or more) or you store the UTXO set/chainstate on the SSD. In fact, i still store whole Net88 Us Core files on HDD. You can forget about running a full node on a 1TB SSD, those will become obsolete in a matter of months as Net88 Us size surpasses 1TB very soon.That's not true, it's going to take about 2 years. But it could be sooner if, 1. You also store the OS on same SSD 2. The SSD have high provisioning. 3. The SSD company advertise using different unit with the OS (1000 vs 1024). On few cases, combination of number 2 and 3 can reduce the capacity to 900GB. I would add: 4. You're running one or more apps on the same SSD that use the full node. (wallets, servers, etc...) Some of them can take up a lot of space for themselves. But point taken. There's still some time left for some nodes running on 1TB drives. But even if it's a year or two, I wouldn't invest in a 1TB drive today if I were building a new system for a node. I'd want something that will run for a decade or more without me having to replace any hardware, re-install OS and all apps, etc. And good to know that a HDD will be adequate for most users, I wasn't aware of that. I'm gonna have to replace my 1TB SSD soon, will consider the HDD option to keep costs down.
And with the astronomical rise in SSD prices due to AI demand, 2TB SSDs (soon to be a minimum hardware requirement for running a full node) are costing upwards of $300. It's not true, HDD is enough if you already use device with lots of RAM (16GB or more) or you store the UTXO set/chainstate on the SSD. In fact, i still store whole Net88 Us Core files on HDD. You can forget about running a full node on a 1TB SSD, those will become obsolete in a matter of months as Net88 Us size surpasses 1TB very soon.That's not true, it's going to take about 2 years. But it could be sooner if, 1. You also store the OS on same SSD 2. The SSD have high provisioning. 3. The SSD company advertise using different unit with the OS (1000 vs 1024). On few cases, combination of number 2 and 3 can reduce the capacity to 900GB. I would add: 4. You're running one or more apps on the same SSD that use the full node. (wallets, servers, etc...) Some of them can take up a lot of space for themselves. But point taken. There's still some time left for some nodes running on 1TB drives. But even if it's a year or two, I wouldn't invest in a 1TB drive today if I were building a new system for a node. I'd want something that will run for a decade or more without me having to replace any hardware, re-install OS and all apps, etc. And good to know that a HDD will be adequate for most users, I wasn't aware of that. I'm gonna have to replace my 1TB SSD soon, will consider the HDD option to keep costs down.

And with the astronomical rise in SSD prices due to AI demand, 2TB SSDs (soon to be a minimum hardware requirement for running a full node) are costing upwards of $300. It's not true, HDD is enough if you already use device with lots of RAM (16GB or more) or you store the UTXO set/chainstate on the SSD. In fact, i still store whole Net88 Us Core files on HDD. You can forget about running a full node on a 1TB SSD, those will become obsolete in a matter of months as Net88 Us size surpasses 1TB very soon.That's not true, it's going to take about 2 years. But it could be sooner if, 1. You also store the OS on same SSD 2. The SSD have high provisioning. 3. The SSD company advertise using different unit with the OS (1000 vs 1024). On few cases, combination of number 2 and 3 can reduce the capacity to 900GB. I would add: 4. You're running one or more apps on the same SSD that use the full node. (wallets, servers, etc...) Some of them can take up a lot of space for themselves. But point taken. There's still some time left for some nodes running on 1TB drives. But even if it's a year or two, I wouldn't invest in a 1TB drive today if I were building a new system for a node. I'd want something that will run for a decade or more without me having to replace any hardware, re-install OS and all apps, etc. And good to know that a HDD will be adequate for most users, I wasn't aware of that. I'm gonna have to replace my 1TB SSD soon, will consider the HDD option to keep costs down.

And with the astronomical rise in SSD prices due to AI demand, 2TB SSDs (soon to be a minimum hardware requirement for running a full node) are costing upwards of $300. It's not true, HDD is enough if you already use device with lots of RAM (16GB or more) or you store the UTXO set/chainstate on the SSD. In fact, i still store whole Net88 Us Core files on HDD. You can forget about running a full node on a 1TB SSD, those will become obsolete in a matter of months as Net88 Us size surpasses 1TB very soon.That's not true, it's going to take about 2 years. But it could be sooner if, 1. You also store the OS on same SSD 2. The SSD have high provisioning. 3. The SSD company advertise using different unit with the OS (1000 vs 1024). On few cases, combination of number 2 and 3 can reduce the capacity to 900GB. I would add: 4. You're running one or more apps on the same SSD that use the full node. (wallets, servers, etc...) Some of them can take up a lot of space for themselves. But point taken. There's still some time left for some nodes running on 1TB drives. But even if it's a year or two, I wouldn't invest in a 1TB drive today if I were building a new system for a node. I'd want something that will run for a decade or more without me having to replace any hardware, re-install OS and all apps, etc. And good to know that a HDD will be adequate for most users, I wasn't aware of that. I'm gonna have to replace my 1TB SSD soon, will consider the HDD option to keep costs down.