I found a great deal on a used laptop (on newegg) that I'm going to set up as a staking machine. I've been wanting something that would have a built in battery backup (beyond my UPS setup) and that I could let run without worrying about a miner crashing it (or keeping it on my main computer as I've been doing).
So the questions I have:
The system comes with an i5 and 4 gigs of Ram, in everyone's experience is the 4g sufficient for running multiple staking wallets and/or master/secure nodes?
Backing up a wallet.dat allows me to import the wallet, but does this bring the blockchain with it or will I need to resync/bootstrap from day zero again for all the wallets i'm running?
Is there any advice/experience others have had with such a setup you could offer to save me some sanity?
Thanks in advance!
I'm not so sure you want to keep a laptop on all the time, in general they run hot (especially HP - I am not sure about the toughbooks, they might be able to handle being on all the time). Maybe look into a celeron (although i3/i5 should be fine) system. There was a link somewhere here (mining) to refurbished $100-$150 desktops.
Half of the HP laptops I have owned didn't make it 2 years...
4Gigs should be plenty enough for the staking you want to do.
Question: what about building a desktop yourself?