Hi,
I joined back in august 2019 as node operator and run a single node for 5 years. Everything worked fine in this long period apart for a single failure of the initial hard drive for which I had also to rebuild completely the node. Today I come to a decision to shutdown the node and leave soon the operators networks.
In case you are curious I run a node based on an Odroid HC2 board with a Seagate IronWolf, 8TB, Hard Disk SATA da 6GBit/s, HDD, CMR 3,5". The OS is DietPi 8.22.3
Running a node, of this size (8TB) with the current payment model does not make sense anymore for me - I spend more than I can get in terms of costs, considering also the fees associated to the tokens conversion, of course I enjoyed to be part of an very innovative project and the associated experience.
I know what you feel…I’m in the same boat with an RPI5 8GB Ram and 16TB 7200 CMR HDD, spinned more than 6 months ago, making around 3$ monthly (now, because of collateral, it was less).
Yeah…decomissioning it as well, specially now with all the filewalkers issues where Dashboards are always wrong.
Good luck fellow SNO
In relation to the costs: the energy consumption of my board + the HD is around 18 watt, so around 175 kWh in a year, so it would be around 61€ for me for a full year. However the last four payouts are on average $5 per month and I barely reach the balance…
In relation to the hard disk: this is the CMR version of the Ironwolf and it just run for four years without any issue. The SMR version I had before instead was really a bad choice.
yes - it is - the cost per kWh is not fixed, I took the worst case, I need also to include the fraction of the unit cost for energy transportation and dispatching as well as the taxes.
Today the unit cost is more favorable.
Anyway even if I would spend less than $60/year the difference is so minimal…
the real problem today is not electricity but the fact that nodes are paid half for data because they cannot clean unpaid data. With full 8tb you tecnically can earn 8x1,49=11,92usd… 7x1,49=10,43. You and us are really far from that.
I suggest to exit from Saltlake satellite and free your hdd from data that are not going to delete correctly now.
and i suggest DON’T, coz You will regret in 1 or 2 months when its fixed.
You cannot un-exit and satlake can potentially subsidise even 6-12 more months, untill real customers takes its place.
Really? Even with the current problem with the uncollected garbage you should make about $15/month minus the held amount. $3/month would mean that you only have 2TB real data.
It seems a shame to turn off a node that’s still making money, and is past its 9-month withholding period. If the problem is that the HC2 is struggling: can you put the HDD in something else?
It looks like it’s making you around $100/year with little effort. Maybe send your payouts to a L1 exchange address to save fees but otherwise just let it run?
. Hope you still come visit some time!
so instead of buying another disk I can just use that one.
