I’m looking to set up my first node. A few things not covered in the docs I’ve been able to find: I have a dedicated Core i3 box I’m planning to use. I’m most experienced with Ubuntu but I’ve used Debian before. Can I use the most recent Ubuntu Server? The prerequisites page looks like it might be…

[image] o1eal: Will the amount of drive space significantly impact my earning potential? I currently have a 1TB drive I could use. Would I be better off ordering, say, a 4 or 6 TB drive, and waiting to set up until I do? 1TB is fine to start. Remember to leave space for logs, etc. The reco…

Ubuntu should work fine. You can use the machine for something else. If the file server uses a same drive, there might be an IOps bottleneck under heavy load which would result in loss of some potential downloads, but this would have a very minor impact on your income unless it is a very heavy load…

I agree with the previous two posts. Start off with what you have. See how it goes. Data ingress to your node will be low to start, and will increase once you surpass the vetting period. I’d say with current ingress rates, with ~900GB of space offered for storage space will take 3-6 months to fill u…

[image] o1eal: I have a dedicated Core i3 box I’m planning to use. It is fine to use what you have. No expensive investment required. [image] o1eal: Is it reasonable to run any other server services on the same box Yes. At times there will be much HDD activity, at times it will be low…

[image] Storgeez: Online time isn’t nearly as important as data integrity. You would just need to make sure power failure does not cause any data corruption. And you would of course need to have the node turn back on after a power failure. Ah, very helpful info, thank you. I’d imagine the mo…

[image] o1eal: I’d imagine the most important thing on that point is to use a journaling file system? Yeah, and depending on how often these power failures occur, you might want to do only synchronous writes. It really depends on a lot of stuff. Well, basically, the only problem is with data…

[image] Storgeez: Well, basically, the only problem is with databases, data folder can lose some files and you won’t feel it as long as it’s a small number; databases OTOH are much less robust. Although that’s true, a node can be recovered even if it loses all of its databases. If this happen…

Really? Since when is that true? I know you can lose some of the databases but I thought losing the main one results in catastrophic failure.

[image] Storgeez: Ubuntu should work fine So, I’m reconsidering, I will probably use a Raspberry Pi 3 with an external USB 2.0 drive. Seems like USB 2.0 could be a bottleneck but not an awful one (I’d probably want to limit the Storj bandwidth to about that speed anyway). I suppose this means…

It almost seems like one in every 3.14 people on here run it on Raspberry Pi. USB bandwidth will not be an issue, traffic is far from it. More than likely the interface adapter in the external drive will be a bottleneck, and the drive too. USB reliability might be an issue but people run it like tha…

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I’m not sure precisely but that’s pretty old:

If you have a spare one laying around, sure. If you were considering buying something, then I’d recommend going for an RPi 4B, with at least 2GB of RAM (4GB is better).