Ethereum

I’m spinning up an ethereum node and all the docs are saying I need as fast a storage drive as I can get with everyone saying nvme is the way to go. However, I’ve yet to see a network connection that can provide the kind of bandwidth that would use up a decent amount of the nvme’s bandwidth. Can someone explain it to me?

Engineer @ Syndicate, prev: Rainbow, Foundation & Cloudflare /poetic-web, builds caststorage.com

lots of overhead. you’re not writing the packets as-is to your disk, you’re building a local database of their structured contents, frequently re-reading, deleting or appending content to the db.

decentralized networking, wallet enthusiast 

Gotcha! That makes sense, I definitely think I understood it as just pure writing of blocks of data I assumed there almost wasn’t any reads at all unless you were hitting the rpc separately.