I’m not tech savvy, was looking at some refurbished laptops through Best Buy and dell in the US and was wondering what consensus is on capabilities here. Have seen mixed recommendations
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87 sats \ 4 replies \ @OT 13h
I bought one second hand for $50. Then I needed to buy a 2TB SSD and 16GB of RAM. Might cost a few hundred dollars
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 12h
Yep, storage is gonna be the biggest cost.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 10h
for a personal 2TB is very much storage, for a company it is low storage used.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 9h
My mini PC runs on 8GB RAM, but 2TB storage is a minimum.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @satgoob OP 12h
Ah right I forgot about that because I’ve had a pruned node
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 9h
Wrong question.
The right question is which type of LN node you want/need to run.
Private or public ?
It's big difference.
Read more:
- https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/lightning-node-maintenance-en.html
- https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/private-ln-nodes-en.html
- https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/recommendations-ln-node-operators-en.html
- https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/managing-lightning-node-liquidity-en.html
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BeeRye 11h
lenovo thinkpads are pretty cheap used (I got one for like $80 two years ago). 2 TB storage + 16 GB RAM and you should be good.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 11h
Look for a "workstation" laptop with an Intel Xeon processor and two m.2 slots.
These are the basic requirments for a lightning node. You can install ECC RAM and setup RAID/ZFS. Anything less and you are at risk of data loss (and therefore fund loss).
E.g. the dell precision series.
Ask chatgpt if you don't know what I am saying.
Don't zap this comment, @k00b is a PoS.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2h
I don’t know who you are or what I did but thanks for helping OP
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