Specifically crafted for a Monero node. Disk will be expanded as the blockchain grows, for no extra charge.
should fully sync the entire blockchain, unpruned, in about 24-48 hours. started mine 20 hours ago:
Synced 2336540/2958303 (78%, 621763 left, 45% of total synced, estimated 17.8 hours left)
I’d posit that it is good for the network. Decentralization means running on all number of hosting providers from AWS, OHV, and Linode to smaller providers like KYUN and, perhaps most importantly, home servers.
But the hosting providers have physical access. You don’t. They have controll you don’t. You can’t argue decentralization if all the nodes are owned by a couple of hosting providers.
All nodes aren’t owned by a couple of hosting providers, but the plethora of hosting providers can contribute to decentralization.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization
Yep, that’s the Wikipedia entry for decentralization. I’ve done some work editing the Monero entry.
Decentralization means we need people running monerod on their phones, laptops, at their homes, and in data centers.