DIY Flux Cumulus Node after the halving 2022
Starting march 2022 one cumulus Flux node only needs 1000 FLUX as collateral. But the hardware requirements are a lot higher. The Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB is barely able to run the node. When you plug in a slow external USB SSD it might not work. Some people on the Discord wrote, that the benchmark sometimes fail on the Raspberry.
A good alternative is the Beelink Mini. It’s just a little bit more expensive than the Pi. It might be even cheaper when bought via socialgood from aliexpress. Socialgood offers a 100% crypto cashback (as of writing) for orders on aliexpress
Here is the benchmark result from the testnet for the Beelink. I bought the 256GB and had to add another SSD. Fortunately the Beelink has a free SATA slot.
I followed the official YouTube video on how to setup the node on a PI. There is only one change needed when using an internal secondary SSD instead of the USB SSD for the PI.
To mount the SSD on startup run
nano /etc/fstabAnd enter
UUID=REPLACE_YOUR_ID /media/ssd ext4 defaults 0 1After you setup your device and followed the instructions in the YouTube video, you will see the rewards coming in.
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