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[-] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A 2tb SSD can now be bought for 100$ at least.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 week ago

This is good to know. I might need to upgrade the storage for my Monero node.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Just wondering, why do you run a monero node?

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How else are you going to bring up Monero in unrelated discussions about computer hardware?

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

For my wallets

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's the default setting when setting up a local wallet. It is also more private due to not being dependent on someone else's node.

[-] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

You should ideally run your own node when using Monero

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

why? dont know much about monero just wondering.

[-] theseer@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Because with someone else's node, they can potentially track and log the transactions you make

[-] oppy1984@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

This is how I know I'm getting old, my first thought was "spinning rust for always on long term storage" and then I remembered it's 2025 and SSD's are about equal now.

Get off my lawn, your interrupting Matlock!

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Still cheaper though. 4TB you are looking at around 3x the price for it in SSD storage. Although I wonder how the power use compares, might be worth factoring in but probably isn't too massive over it's realistic lifespan

[-] oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, I run spinning rust in my nas. All data storage for me is on HDDs, only OS date is on the SSD. That's for the nas and my computer.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My main data usage is game installs and pretty unimportant temporary stuff so it doesn't need backup fortunately. Game saves do of course but a simple bash script and the file size for that is tiny in comparison.

SSD performance would be nice to have, but costs extra.

[-] oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

SSDs are getting reasonable, you might want to look into it again if that's your use case.

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