I like Lenovo or Hp mini PCs (ebay $25) *Bare* with power adapter 7500T cpu (ebay $30) 16GB ddr4 *dual channel* 2x8gb ram (new $25) 2TB Sata SSD (new $80-$100) Total $160-$180 Powerful x86 with huge RAM and 2TB storage enough for another decade of full archival.

Idk too much about this but I did do a quick deep dive before getting into it, I’m on like day 4 of downloading btc core. I’m using an old MacBook that I had laying around with a 2Tb ssd. I wanted to keep costs down and when the things fried I’ll just chuck it and get something else. I saw ...

The x86 Intel 7500t will be 4-5x faster than the ARM pi4 chip Power use Intel 7500T 5-10watts idle 30watts load Pi4 1-3 idle, 6-7 load Rather have the power in my opinion

Pi is less recommended these days. Snag a Beelink NUC with an n200 and 16gb RAM, throw a 1-2TB SSD in it and you’re cooking with room to spare.

I am following this conplete guide. Didn't finish but so far so good. https://raspibolt.org/

I think you can start with something basic, in my case I was trying to save money for buy rig for mining and have it on my own house in a specific room, after having the rigs I should start from the very basic, maybe two or three miners, after a month what I generate with them I just upgrade the rig...

I run a pi5, 8gb, 32gb sd just to boot and currently have a 1TB NVME base and a small touch screen I run raspiblitz which I was regretting but it just got albyhub so it’s catching up to umbrel in terms of apps It lets me run public pool and point my bitaxe to my own node. Umbrel is much more plu...

That works 👌

My first node was installed many months ago, very easily, with Umbrel on a Raspberry Pi5 8Gb, SD Sandisk 64Gb (not so much storage needed for OS) and SSD Crucial 2Tb NVME. It's working great and I discharged blockchain in less than twelve hours. I'm thinking about to install in the future a second o...

I don’t know , i don’t like buying any hardware or software . I am trying to create my own lighting wallet. Using node LDK , have not time to get into it. Why do you need rasp p14-8gb 32 gb SD card ? Umbrell cool but expensive .

Yes that is perfect, I have the same. SD card can be even smaller.

Skip the pi. Get a used second hand machine via ebay or another refurb/used hardware store.

would recommend rpi5, more ram, is generally faster