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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: stompix on January 15, 2014, 11:33:58 PM



Title: How much space you use with alt blockchains?
Post by: stompix on January 15, 2014, 11:33:58 PM
With this invasion of alt coins and their growing blockchains I always wondered how many people are indeed running a full node for multiple coins.

Is there somebody who has 5-10 different clients running the same time? How much space are your favorites using on your hdd? (or ssd).
And most important , which ones?


Title: Re: How much space you use with alt blockchains?
Post by: virtualdn on January 15, 2014, 11:34:53 PM
a couple gigs


Title: Re: How much space you use with alt blockchains?
Post by: stompix on January 16, 2014, 12:00:26 AM
30gb

Wow , things are getting interesting.
Can you come back in  20 - 30 days and post how this number has evolved?


Title: Re: How much space you use with alt blockchains?
Post by: Masejoer on January 16, 2014, 12:25:02 AM
30gb

Wow , things are getting interesting.
Can you come back in  20 - 30 days and post how this number has evolved?

I don't think it's that hard if you consider bitcoin also. I have 25GB if I count all the wallets/coins I have - 19 total. Bitcoin is the large one - my folder is 15.5GB.

Only 9.5GB with alternatives.


Title: Re: How much space you use with alt blockchains?
Post by: stompix on January 16, 2014, 01:01:37 AM
30gb

Wow , things are getting interesting.
Can you come back in  20 - 30 days and post how this number has evolved?

I don't think it's that hard if you consider bitcoin also. I have 25GB if I count all the wallets/coins I have - 19 total. Bitcoin is the large one - my folder is 15.5GB.

Only 9.5GB with alternatives.

How many of those 19 are your running simultaneously ?


Title: Re: How much space you use with alt blockchains?
Post by: bee7 on January 16, 2014, 01:20:08 AM

~60 coins excluding bitcoin & litecoin tried recently/used presently - 19GB of the plain 2.5" 5400RPM hard disk (to lower the power usage).
All daemons of PoS coins are running 24 hours a day plus some daemons that are not transited to leveldb. When I have to reboot the box for some reason and I want to start all of them then the whole startup takes more than a hour - daemons are started one by one to avoid too much concurrent use of the disk during index loading :)




Title: Re: How much space you use with alt blockchains?
Post by: stompix on January 16, 2014, 01:25:07 AM

~60 coins excluding bitcoin & litecoin tried recently/used presently - 19GB of the plain 2.5" 5400RPM hard disk (to lower the power usage).
All daemons of PoS coins are running 24 hours a day plus some daemons that are not transited to leveldb. When I have to reboot the box for some reason and I want to start all of them then the whole startup takes more than a hour - daemons are started one by one to avoid too much concurrent use of the disk during index loading :)




Have you ever checked how much bandwidth those clients require /day?
I was surprised when I checked Kluge's post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=334778.0


Title: Re: How much space you use with alt blockchains?
Post by: bee7 on January 16, 2014, 01:36:53 AM

~60 coins excluding bitcoin & litecoin tried recently/used presently - 19GB of the plain 2.5" 5400RPM hard disk (to lower the power usage).
All daemons of PoS coins are running 24 hours a day plus some daemons that are not transited to leveldb. When I have to reboot the box for some reason and I want to start all of them then the whole startup takes more than a hour - daemons are started one by one to avoid too much concurrent use of the disk during index loading :)




Have you ever checked how much bandwidth those clients require /day?
I was surprised when I checked Kluge's post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=334778.0

Yes, I saw this post. I don't mind - I have a flat rate fortunately.