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Minimal Hardware for running Monerod and P2Pool
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Small form factor tiny PC like a Lenovo Thinkcenter M720q or similar or an EliteDesk 800 or similar. They are very cheap used, have very decent CPU, usually 8GB or 16GB or more and a SSD.
Buying an overpriced and limited SBC instead of these is wasting money. Especially that you can upgrade them with a 4TB HDD & 2TB+ NVME drive, up to 64GB of ram. They have like 6 USB, 2 or 3 display output...
When they do almost nothing (like synced node for example), they use like 10Watts...
And you can mine on them too, and they are stackable :)
I have a Intel NUC 7PJYH here which is running 24/7 for the smart home etc. maybe i will first of try if it can handle Smarthome/TVHEad/ and Monerod + P2Pool. While syncing now the CPU usage is quite high
Yeah, it's normal, you can't compare a NUC with a premium Tiny PC.
NUC have budget / low end CPU (In you're case, a Pentium Silver Jxxxx), While these tiny PC have Core i5 or Core i7. Can find model with 8th gen+ at very decent price.
I have found an efficient Fujitsu MoBo and a PicoPSU on the attic and now i am organising a cheap i5-6500T. Should be good for approx. 1300H/s at 30W. As an always on "placeholder" minig to the pool while the sun does not shine.