Cheapest way to run a full node ?

[ranochigo]

How about an Banana Pi as full node? It costs nearly the same as RPI but has 1GB of Ram (which should be sufficient,right) and a SATA Port.
In March I will try to get a full node running on Banana Pi with 10Mbit upload. Will there be a significant benefit for using an old SSD for Blockchain storage instead of oldschool HDD? Maybe I/O performance?

Another cool Project: Bitcoin full node using Intel Edison!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=809090.msg9064556#new

SSD would use less power and be more resistant to damage than old HDD. They are also much faster than HDD and is useful for syncing and relaying of blocks.

[Lincoln6Echo]

SSD would use less power and be more resistant to damage than old HDD. They are also much faster than HDD and is useful for syncing and relaying of blocks.

Well, on paper a ssd is way faster than hdd but a BananaPi with SATA 1 Interface and an 10 MBit upload connection won't use nearly the max. read/write performance of the ssd. But an ssd would be useful when supplying many different parts of the blockchain to many different nodes at the same time, right?

[shorena]

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[1] http://213.165.91.169/

That looks really nice. Is there a step-by-step guide how to set up a full node available somewhere?

There is some sort of script flying around for Ubuntu Server but it did not work for me so I did it by hand. Its just an install of bitcoin core and for ubuntu there is a repo, so its not much. You will have no info page though.

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What program did you use to get those stats?

rrdtool [2] and shellscripts (cronjobs)

details about that can be found here [1]. Its not a step by step, but it should get you started



[1] http://213.165.91.169/whatdo.txt
[2] http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/