Critical Criteria: Farming

[mvanzyl]

a bit of an older post…but may be some helpful info here…

Best Safe Node hardware

What characteristics will be important to build the best farming rig? The most important factor is obviously a large amount of storage. Can a vault span multiple drives, or will we need to run a RAID type setup? How will drive failures affect the network. At what point does the cost of redundancy outweigh the hit from dropping data off the network? If you have 3 disks, I expect you don’t want to cut your space by a third to gain single drive failure recovery. What about if you have 100 dri…