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Minimal Hardware for running Monerod and P2Pool (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by bjoerns@feddit.de to c/moneromining@monero.town

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Can anyone give me an idea what the minimum hardware requirements are for letting monerod und P2Pool run on the same machine. The machine should only do the managing part not mining.

What are the importand specs? CPU Speed? Ram site? Storage?

Does it even work on something like an old Cubietruck etc?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Btw really happy finding out that the Monero Community also exists on Lemmy.

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[–] gu34ffdasE@monero.town 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Definitively

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 :)

[–] bjoerns@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] gu34ffdasE@monero.town 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bjoerns@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] monerobull@monero.town 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've used a Rock Pi 4 b before, worked well but the SSD connection is in a weird place (sticks out) so you might need the SSD adapter addon thing for like 20$.

[–] bjoerns@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

All freaking expensive this SBC's in the moment