Hello everyone! Many people have great experience in this community, I would like to know which hardware you recommend to start a Storj node. SO? hard disc type? capacity? I’m starting with a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and an old 1TB hard drive. Any tips? Thank you very much community!

[image] NuclearM2: hard disc type? One that consumes little power and uses CMR [image] NuclearM2: capacity? 0.5 - 18TB [image] NuclearM2: I’m starting with a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and an old 1TB hard drive Sounds ok, how are you going to connect the HDD to your Raspi?

make sure you disable power management on your usb, tho that would most likely be standard in a server version of linux. and usb can in some cases be kinda unstable.

[image] NuclearM2: I’m starting with a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and an old 1TB hard drive. Sounds perfect to start, if the disk is not SMR. But if it’s old, it probably is a classic CMR drive. Ensure your disk is formatted to ext4 and mounted statically. Get rid of any Swap. Remove reserved space…

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Thank you for your answers! [image] twl: Sounds ok, how are you going to connect the HDD to your Raspi? I bought a USB3.0 to SATA adapter + power (~6€) [image] SGC: make sure you disable power management on your usb I’m using Raspberry OS clean. I understand that the option is disabl…

[image] NuclearM2: about 2-4 seconds when typing in the terminal That’s quite a lag! The raspberry isn’t the bottleneck here, I’m not seing anyhting like this on mine. When sshing to it, I may have a 200-300ms lag top if I’m on a modest connection, but that’s about it. [image] NuclearM2: …

maybe something like this… https://www.pihome.eu/2017/10/11/raspberry-pi-system-optimisation in regard to the lag on the Pi, check that your hdd doesn’t create it, there might be something wrong with it, i assume it’s an older drives since it’s a 1tb hdd else basically just kill anything power ma…

[image] Pac: That’s quite a lag! screemshot of my deskop but is non-viable, How can I check what is due the lag? [image]

Do you mean you have some lag in local?

[image] Pac: ¿Quiere decir que tiene algún retraso en el local? [image] SGC: ¿está ejecutando el sistema operativo en el mismo disco duro que el nodo de almacenamiento Yes, when opening the Terminal it takes 3-5 for the command to authenticate to appear, then everything appears at once…

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