Recommended Hardware Specifications

System Requirements

The following hardware specifications are recommended for the Casper Mainnet and Testnet:

• 4 Cores
• 32 GB Ram
• 2 TB SSD or network SSD backed disk
• Linux machine running Ubuntu 20.04

Notes

• SSD is required because HDD cannot perform random writes at the performance needed to keep in sync with the full speed of the network.
• For non-archival nodes, disc usage will drop once data recovery is implemented. It is safe to slowly increase the disc space as needed while monitoring on a server capable of this.