To buy or not to buy....that's the question :)

[daki82]

Announcement: Changes to node payout rates as of December 1st, 2023 (Closed)

Hello storage node community, We really appreciate the lively discussion the pricing announcement yesterday has engendered. We’re especially appreciative of the replies that understand what we’re trying to achieve in the long term, but we also understand that the new pricing simply doesn’t work for some storage node operators. In addition to the forum discussions, we’ve been meeting with node operators (both public network operators as well as commercial node program participants) on an ongoing…

I have a mini-pc 8gbram 2ghz 4core with ssd and usb for databases, struggling with 8 of 10 tb node data.
can not recommend to buy anything.
how big are the drives and what type, and why not puting them on the other running devices?