I’m thinking of running a node, what system specification is required? Any help?

The specification depends on the volume of transactions, which will increase as more dApps are deployed on Algorand. This answer has been written early Feb 2021. With the current volume of transactions, the most important is to have a disk that is fast enough. HDD are no more sufficient, you need…

Thank you Fabrice. That’s to say I’ll need an SSD of about 500GB at least, and a minimum of 8GB RAM.

Only if you want an archival node and It’ll grow past that 500 within a year.

Also, I think that if you want an archival node, you most likely also want an indexer. 8GB RAM should be sufficient for both algod and indexer. I don’t have the disk use for indexer for just MainNet. But for TestNet + MainNet, the indexer currently uses 343GB of disk. My guess is that for MainNe…

System specification to run a node

ddev February 7, 2021, 5:51pm 5

I’m looking for the best sys to do that. Thanks

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