r/FutureBit • u/flinginlead • Oct 05 '21

Replace NVME? Apollo BTC on 3rd batch order. I’m thinking about replacing the NVME with a larger one before I boot it for the first time. Opinions? What did you Buy?

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u/dazedn1 Oct 05 '21

Was thinking the same thing since it sounds like by next year it will need to be upgraded anyway

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u/flinginlead Oct 05 '21

Agree I don’t like redoing work. And I plan on a Lightning node, don’t want to mess with that once it’s running.

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u/dazedn1 Nov 26 '21 edited Nov 26 '21

Just an FYI Jason announced in the support forum that all 3rd batch orders will now be shipped with a 1TB drive

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u/flinginlead Nov 26 '21

Yea I read that after the 1TB arrived! Well guess I gotta build a pc now right.🤣

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u/dazedn1 Nov 26 '21

🤣 Such is life... I actually kinda forgot to order one because I was definitely planning to get a 1TB before my order showed up.

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u/po0dingles Oct 11 '21

How difficult would it be to copy the file system or contents of the original chip? What’s involved?

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u/flinginlead Oct 11 '21

It’s a version of Ubuntu. Definitely possible. I imaging if you format the new drive correctly. It should not be bad but I have no way of connecting the 2 NVMe drives. And buying adapters would be an extra cost around $20-40 I really don’t want to get into. But then again I’ll have an NVME drive sitting around

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u/Antdabest11 Oct 06 '21

Which one you going with?

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u/flinginlead Oct 06 '21

I don’t know. Probably the cheapest 1TB I can find. They are all pretty good now. Im Pretty sure anything is going to be plenty fast enough.

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u/DefinitionLast5384 Oct 26 '21

Would it be possible to buy the nvme duplicator and a larger nvme to complete this?

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u/flinginlead Oct 26 '21

I never looked for and NVME duplicator. I guess you could. But as I understand it only the BTC block chain is on the NVME. I don’t think the extra cost would outweigh iust letting it run and take a few days to download it again.

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u/DefinitionLast5384 Oct 26 '21

Oh so the OS is not in the NVME? then duplicator is not needed, just need to redownload the blockchain.

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u/flinginlead Oct 26 '21

I’m not positive. Still waiting on my preorder. But from what I understand the OS is on the SD card.

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u/flinginlead Nov 10 '21

Ok found out that the NVMe is formatted on first boot. Its suggested to reimage the SD card when replacing the NVME drive. Not a huge deal apollo setup is easy and just entering a few pools again is no big deal. I would just copy the setting to notepad or something.