Is it possible to run a full Bitcoin Node on a NAS server/box?

[mononom]

Hi Everybody,

Does anyone know if it's possible to run a Bitcoin Qt Wallet/Full Node on a NAS server/box?

Has anyone experience with this?

I look forward to hear from you...

[mononom]

I'm sorry for putting my question in the wrong forum section, moderator.

Cheers!

[whizz94]

I've been trying a variety of other old linux boxes.  Though not NAS I can report the following:
Anything less than 1.6GB RAM forget it.
Anything less than 2 cores x 1.6 GHz cpu forget it.
Fast HDD access seems to be worth having.

So in all likelihood, expect a slow initial synch and reindex.  If it has less than 4 cpu.GHz then each day of new blockchain data may take more than a day to index and process.

Please let us know what you find.

[locho16]

Yes indeed. I was able to use and run this on my ongoing business and everything comes out with a great results. All you need to do is to be more specific. Thanks

[unamis76]

What kind of NAS server do you have? Specs?

I've been trying a variety of other old linux boxes.  Though not NAS I can report the following:
Anything less than 1.6GB RAM forget it.
Anything less than 2 cores x 1.6 GHz cpu forget it.

Why?

Fast HDD access seems to be worth having.

Yes, this comes in handy...

So in all likelihood, expect a slow initial synch and reindex.  If it has less than 4 cpu.GHz then each day of new blockchain data may take more than a day to index and process.

The first part is true, the second is not.

Yes indeed. I was able to use and run this on my ongoing business and everything comes out with a great results. All you need to do is to be more specific. Thanks

What do you mean by ongoing business?

[shorena]

What kind of NAS server do you have? Specs?

I've been trying a variety of other old linux boxes.  Though not NAS I can report the following:
Anything less than 1.6GB RAM forget it.
Anything less than 2 cores x 1.6 GHz cpu forget it.

Why?

If you have less CPU power you will have a very hard time to sync up. This can be done on a different machine though (mind the chainstate obfuscation that came with 0.12. core on windows versions) and you just copy the data over once you are in sync.

If you have less RAM your node will constantly crash as its running out of memory. I have 2 GB on my old VPS and its not enough when there are many transactions around. This might be better with 0.12.0, because it limits memory for transactions to 300 MB by default and I did some other things to reduce the need for RAM (no wallet, small dbcache), but I dont know yet.