This is one of the best homelab servers I ever had. Not the most powerful, but really silent, very small footprint and it feels so reliable compared to much higher-speced (but same price range) computers I've had in the past. 

Really love it. (Runs snapchain like a pro)

- Raspberry Pi5 16GB
- NVMe Base Case for Raspberry Pi 5 (pimoroni)
- NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5 - 2x2TB SSD

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do you know if the drives have to be the same size?

Using them as a singe 4TB logical volume.

are you using it as redundant or just extra storage? can the pi just treat both drives as one with total capacity of the sum of both?

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makes absolute sense. I didn't realise the Ethereum node goal too - this is what vitalik was saying. also incredible to see how far the raspberry pi has gotten!

Wanted to run a Snapchain node (at least 1TB) and probably an Ethereum node (~2TB), so 4TB was a sweet spot that could cover this type of uses without running into disk space limits. Spinning disks need more power, they are slower, and I wouldn't get this nice, compact setup.

This is a super setup. Low power too. Why so much storage and did you consider spinning disk or was the ssd just cheap enough at this stage

Thats mine. Its a raspberry 4 with a 4tb nvme connected to an old dell notebook screen with an adaptor. I use as a nas for my plex and runs some scripts, measure the connection network and monitor skatehive stuff. Its my little lab when i have time to play. No noise at all

nice to see how small the fc dataset can be. bullish