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Overview

Syncing an Ethereum node is largely reliant on latency and IOPS, I/O Per Second, of the storage. Budget SSDs will struggle to an extent, and some won't be able to sync at all. For simplicity, this page treats IOPS as a proxy for/predictor of latency.

This document aims to snapshot some known good and known bad models.

The drive lists are ordered by interface and then by capacity and alphabetically by vendor name, not by preference. The lists are not exhaustive at all. @mwpastore linked a filterable spreadsheet in comments that has a far greater variety of drives and their characteristics. Filter it by DRAM yes, NAND Type TLC, Form Factor M.2, and desired capacity.

For size, 4TB comes recommended as of mid 2024. The smaller 2TB drive should last an Ethereum full node until early 2025 or thereabouts, with crystal ball uncertainty. The Portal team aim to make 2TB [last forever with EIP-4444](https://

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	let mut to_kill = vec![];

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	for (id, (health)) in (&healths).iter().with_id() {
	if health.0 < 0 {
	to_kill.push(id);
	}
	}
	});

	# Joe Sandbox API wrapper.
	# REQUIRES: python-requests http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

	import sys
	import time
	import random
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	####################################
	# BASIC REQUIREMENTS
	# http://graphite.wikidot.com/installation
	# http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/09/how-to-install-graphite-on-ubuntu/
	# Last tested & updated 10/13/2011
	####################################

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	# in order to find out what SQL queries are generated by a view

	## turn on DEBUG so that ``connection.queries`` gets populated
	from django.conf import settings
	settings.DEBUG = True
	from django.db import connection


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