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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Hard Drive Speed running a Core Node on: April 25, 2018, 12:03:25 AM
Hey, I'm getting a Bitcoin Core node running on an old MacBook Air I have lying around. It doesn't have enough SSD space to store the blockchain, so I want to use an old 1TB external hard drive I have. Its reads and writes are around 25MB/s. Is this fast enough to run a core node? On Bitcoin.org it recommends 100 MB/s. Do you think I could get away with 25? Thanks in advance

-BiggieM
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