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Title: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? Post by: deepceleron on July 10, 2013, 09:55:37 PM I just did a hard drive cleanup, and realized I had tons of copies of the blockchain from different stuff - multiple datadirs, virtual machines, pynode, torrent & torrent bootstrap candidates, zipped up copies, multiple computers, etc.
You should have a backup of an updated blockchain if you use a full client though (just copy the whole Bitcoin datadir with subdirectories except for the wallet) - it will save you a lot of re-downloading or importing in case your Bitcoin craps the bed. How much blockchain bloat are you storing? Title: Re: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? Post by: PrintMule on July 10, 2013, 09:58:57 PM whole 9 gb of qt
I wonder - how well does it compress? Too lazy to try it out instead of asking. Also - how do you change the default location of qt appdata folder to something else under windows? Title: Re: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? Post by: justusranvier on July 11, 2013, 01:24:52 AM I'm running three full nodes at the moment.
Title: Re: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? Post by: Turks on July 11, 2013, 01:32:26 AM Unfortunately when I first started, I went with bitcoin-qt. It never sync'd fast enough so eventually I ended up running bitcoin-qt over ssh+x, just to extract a few fractions of a bitcent. Lately I've been using web-wallets due to my poor little android tablet breaking a month or so ago.
Title: Re: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? Post by: halfawake on July 11, 2013, 01:40:32 AM I'm running a full node, and the blockchain is up to 10.1 GB, so technically none of the above.
Title: Re: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? Post by: biggie on July 11, 2013, 01:40:38 AM Storage is dirt cheap nowadays, i guess the only issue is when your drive crashes or the data gets corrupted you'll have to redownload it.
Title: Re: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? Post by: Abdussamad on July 11, 2013, 03:37:15 PM Switched to electrum so no blockchain locally for me. It wasn't practical running bitcoin-qt on a 1Mbps connection anyway.
Title: Re: POLL: How much blockchain data is filling your hard drives? Post by: Elwar on July 11, 2013, 04:05:51 PM Less than 5% of my laptop hard drive.
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