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Originally Posted by freebeard
How much did the electricity cost?
Running a full node isn't the same as mining. https://www.makeuseof.com/bitcoin-node-raspberry-pi/
I have the [somewhat, marginally] persistent connection, but I'd have to share it with web browsing, and videos are challenging at best of times. |
Hard to say what it's cost in electricity. $10k out of my pocket for 6.4 kW solar installation.
The hardware is surplus, so free to me there, though I may end up spending some to get 3 identical drives to run RAID 5.
EDIT: My conundrum... I've got a 12 TB, 10 TB, and 5 TB drive, as well as many 1 TB. I need at least 8 TB of space, so RAID 5 with 1 TB drives won't do me any good. I could just JBOD my drives, which is probably what I should do... still I like to RAID 5 when I can. It's saved me twice before with failed drives. Of course, I'll do an independent backup, but I tend to go long periods of time between syncing, so I kinda do utilize RAID somewhat as "backup".
I could commit the unforgivable sin of building a RAID 5 array from mismatched drives. Don't need the performance or maximum storage space, just the redundancy.
... I should probably just Ebay my HD collection and get 3 identical drives.