Oddbean new post about | logout
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/22/23733267/sandisk-extreme-pro-failure-ssd-firmware

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 Don't know if it's still true but for years bitcoin node IBD was like *the* stress test of a hard disk. People used to report failures all the time. 
 Also CPU/memory - people would regularly fail IVD on various early RPis cause they’d corrupt memory when they got hot. 
 Anything to keep us from self-hosting when we ought to be exposing everything on the cloud for free.