From 98cecbdd88cbcd299917b30794706c162ddd8039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "larry.lx" Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 20:35:08 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] readme: update the disk requirement to 2.5TB Tried with this command: ./geth --tries-verify-mode none --config ./config.toml --datadir ./node --cache 8000 Sync to block: 28459251(May 23 2023), it takes ~2.1TB --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 464975f00b..df06e212a9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ on how you can run your own `geth` instance. The hardware must meet certain requirements to run a full node on mainnet: - VPS running recent versions of Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows. -- IMPORTANT 2 TB of free disk space, solid-state drive(SSD), gp3, 8k IOPS, 250 MB/S throughput, read latency <1ms. (if node is started with snap sync, it will need NVMe SSD) +- IMPORTANT 2.5 TB(May 2023) of free disk space, solid-state drive(SSD), gp3, 8k IOPS, 250 MB/S throughput, read latency <1ms. (if node is started with snap sync, it will need NVMe SSD) - 16 cores of CPU and 64 GB of memory (RAM) - Suggest m5zn.3xlarge instance type on AWS, c2-standard-16 on Google cloud. - A broadband Internet connection with upload/download speeds of 5 MB/S