Is It better one node with 6TB or two node with 3TB (share same bandwith)

Node Operators
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Hi there, I’m a new italian SNO and it is 15 days that my node is online! :slight_smile:

Question… Yesterday I found a new HDD 3TB. But I don’t want to stop my actual storjNode for upgrade the storage (for adding a RAID0 with the old HDD)… I think i will start a new StorjNode with the new HDD.

What do you think about that? In the same internet connection, for example 100MB UP and 100MB DOWN, is it better to have 1 Node with 6TB, or two node with 3TB per node? The second solution, obviously, it’s 25MB up/down per node…

Sorry for my English :slight_smile:

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For me, going 2 nodes is a bit better.

You can get more space on a single node by using RAID, but you increse the chance of loosing everything if one of the disks fail by 100%

But if you have 2 nodes, you can only loose 50% if a drive fails.

Myself I only ever used RAID 0 (or 2 drives in a ZFS pool) as a temporary measure, which gave me time to get a larger drive to move the data onto.

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If you have 2 drives, then make 2 nodes, dont put them together, you will have dobled posibilitie of node fail. 2 nodes will work better, less stress to each disk.

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there is practically no difference in performance… in regard to the node vs nodes in egress / ingress, its split evenly between them…

ofc like Vadim points out, other factors come into play… like there so often do with the underlying hardware for IT solutions.

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Shouldn’t we just merge all these into 1 big thread about it? I feel like i read 10 of these post a week.