Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi 5 16GBFuture expansionRecommended if you are planning to run plugins or add-ons alongside your DigiByte Node. It gives you the most flexibility for future expansion.
Raspberry Pi 5 8GBBest valueThe best balance of performance and price, and likely the best choice if you only plan to run a node.
Raspberry Pi 4 8GBSupportedMore than adequate, though a Pi 5 performs better.
Pi 3, Pi Zero and earlierNot supported
- Storage: boot from an SSD. On a Pi 5, an NVMe SSD connected via the PCIe port is strongly recommended: it's significantly faster than USB. On a Pi 4, use an SSD connected to one of the USB 3 ports. A microSD card works on an 8GB Pi, but it's significantly slower and prone to corruption: fine for testing, not for the long term.
- Operating system: Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) is recommended. Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS 64-bit should also work.
- Setting it up: you need another computer at first, to write the operating system onto the SSD. After that the Pi doesn't need a screen, keyboard or mouse.
- Other models: the Raspberry Pi 400 / 500 / Compute Modules have not been tested, but should work fine with 8GB RAM or more.
Other Linux Systems
- Hardware: ARM64 and x86_64 (Intel/AMD) computers and servers, including a VPS.
- Operating system: a 64-bit OS is required, and Ubuntu Server 64-bit LTS is recommended. Debian also works, but needs sudo to be installed first.
- Screen and keyboard: not needed to run it, though some systems may need them during setup.
Memory
16GBRecommendedRecommended for future expansion, such as running plugins or add-ons alongside your node.
8GBRecommended minimumSafely runs a DigiByte Mainnet node and a Testnet node at the same time on the same device (a Dual Node).
4GBTesting onlyA single node only. It will be very sluggish, and the large swap file it needs puts a lot of strain on the SSD.
Less than 4GBNot supported
However much memory your device has, it's always sensible to have a swap file. DigiNode Setup will help configure this.
Disk space
256GB SSD or larger is a good choice
The DigiByte blockchain needs more than 50GB of disk space and keeps growing. At least 128GB of free disk space is recommended, to allow for future growth.
Network
An Ethernet connection is recommended for reliability, but Wi-Fi should work fine.
Any other questions? Please ask in the DigiNode Tools Telegram Group.