At what point do you remove the plates when you sell a car?

[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/

Why You Should Set up Your Own Bitcoin Node
Unlike cryptocurrency mining, running a node does not provide any material benefit to you. Instead, owning a node provides value to everyone else using the Bitcoin network.

Bitcoin is decentralized, which means no single participant is in charge of verifying new transactions and maintaining a log of old ones. By running a full node of your own, you participate in this democratization of the cryptocurrency and make it more robust, secure, and resilient to attacks.

If you hold any amount of Bitcoin, running a full node guarantees the highest degree of security. Since your machine stores a copy of the transaction ledger, you do not have to rely on a third-party entity to verify the ownership of your tokens.

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.

[redpoint5]

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.

[Piotrsko]

Been my experience that just a systematic periodic backup on a standalone remote drive beats even a RAID drive. The issue is how often and if it even gets done. The raid drive is doing backup constantly, ok if you have the overhead.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Been my experience that just a systematic periodic backup on a standalone remote drive beats even a RAID drive. The issue is how often and if it even gets done. The raid drive is doing backup constantly, ok if you have the overhead.

That's been my strategy.

People will scream that RAID is not backup, but the very first word in RAID is redundant. Just makes life easy when a drive fails, plus the extra performance is a bonus.

I inventoried my drive collection last night, and 1 TB just isn't worth much these days. I can sell each drive for $30, which isn't worth the hassle to me to DOD wipe them, list on Ebay, and ship (eating $10 of the profit). Maybe someone is interested in buying my whole collection so I only have to make 1 listing and 1 shipment.

I'm leaning towards purchasing two more of either my 10 or 12 TB drive and making a proper RAID 5 volume.That would give me 20 TB usable which should tide me over a long time and provide some space to spin up VMs. My tower has 24 cores and 32GB RAM.