Running startOS on beelink mini pc, upgraded to samsung 2tb ssd
Thanks for this, I couldn’t seem to find a simple way to do this before.
Question:
I have used Rpi’s for years, currently have 7 running as servers or gateways etc, familiar with Linux as a user. One of my Pi servers is a Start9 with a M.2 drive in an Argon case. It is neat but has stopped twice. Once it was the SD card, I wrote the image again and it recovered and used the M.2 drive and started the BTC Node service OK. The next time it stopped it gave a database error when entering login creds but it did restart OK.
I have a spare mini PC, Dell OptiXX Intel Corei5 7th Gen with 8GB RAM and with just Windows 10 on a 250GB SSD. If I was to install Proxmox on this Intel machine will I be able to add a Start9 instance and recover the server using the M.2 drive from my Pi?
I feel the Dell/Intel machine may be more stable and it has a M.2 slot on the motherboard but I have never tried to move a drive from one machine to an other like this? I would like to think I could just mount the drive within the Start9 VM on proxmox?
Dream or possible? What do you think?
Thx, Garry
** I see this guide : Start9 | Transfer Data to a New Drive
This suggests it it is the way to preserve my data across a platform swap. If I am creating a Start9 instance on Proxmox (in an Intel PC) this will be linux >> linux or does the physical hardware of the Intel machine mean different platform? How virtual or real is the Proxmox virtual macine?
Thx, Garry
@GryKyo I don’t believe any Argon case provisions extra power to an external SSD, does it?
That’s often the issue when it comes to write errors and file corruption on an external disk on a Pi.
On top of this, with Bitcoin’s UTXO set expanded beyond 8GB, you’ll be thrashing that external disk extra hard every 10 minutes to the point of risking problems.
This is why we’re saying a Pi is no longer capable of running a Bitcoin stack and telling people not to do it. Maybe for just a little while longer it might be possible to run Bitcoin on 8GB so long as you have a processor several times faster than a Pi, and a SSD connected on a bus that’s faster (not USB)… but even that will see its day come with another round of ordinals or stamps or whatever will come next.
The Dell you mention might fit into that category, but it will still struggle. Adding Proxmox into the mix will eat into that small amount of RAM.
You call the Dell an “Intel” machine a couple of times… is this because you believe you’ll need something to emulate an ARM chip?
There’s an x86 version of Start9 you could install on the Dell directly, installing just the OS onto that 250GB SSD. But you’d be stuck with a data drive with ARM versions of the services.
However, if you had another spare drive, you could follow this transfer process and transfer the Pi disk data onto the new drive you’d insert into the Dell. This would rebuild all the containers for x86.
Hi, I installed StartOS on a lenovo thinkcentre M715q tiny and I’m currently running bitcoin core, electrs and the mempool services all sync with no issues. I’m planning on installing jellyfin and nextcloud next.
Processor: AMD PRO A6-8570E
Memory: 8GB DDR4
Drive: 2TB SATA SSD
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Running StartOS on Minisforum UM780XTX
Processor: AMD 7840HS
Memory: 96 GB
Drive: 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD NVMe M.2 *2
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Hi. What format is the drive?
I am stuck trying to set up the os on a 7010 with on ssd for the system and services and an hhd for data. SSH alone boot fine into the initial set up. If I add the hhd, the booting get stuck for a while then I get a bunch of errors.
Please create a new topic in the DIY forum for the issue with the 7010.
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Hi Plebs,
Running StartOS on Beelink SER8 Mini PC
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
Memory: 32 GB DDR5
Drive: SSD Predator GM7000 4TB M.2 NVME GEN4
and
Intel NUC 11
Processor: Core i7-1165G7
Memory: 32GB DDR4 RAM
Drive: 2TB NVMe SSD Kingstone
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Successful non-free install on an HP ENVY Desktop - TE01-1022
Was getting a ‘no wifi instance’ error until I updated the BIOS to F.50
Wish I’d read this thread first 
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Start9 fully installed and successfully running the following:
- Bitcoin Core
- Electrs
- Mempool
- LND
- ThunderHub
- Lightning Terminal
The hardware is as follows:
- Trigkey Green G4 Mini PC
- Intel 11th Gen N100 3.4Ghz 4 Core Processor
- 16Gb DDR4 SO-DIMM RAM
- 2TB Crucial MX500 NAND SATA SSD (fitted as additional drive, but BIOS configured to use it as the main boot drive).
Everything has been running fine so far.
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Successfully running Start9 non-free install on an HP Elitedesk G3 800 i5 6500.
Replaced the stock 8 RAM & 256GB SSD with 16GM RAM & 2TB SSD.
Everything is running very smoothly.
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Installed startos-0.3.5.1-39de098_x86_64-nonfree.iso on a Lenovo T14s Laptop - (16GB RAM / M.2 SSD 500GB + 1TB external SSD.
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Holoport - with changing 1TB HDD to 2TB SSD
(Tutorial will be published here when ready sometime this year)
Lenovo Thinkpad T480s NB i5-8350U 1.7GHz - seamless install.
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I installed 0.3.5 on a Minix Z100-0dB (16GB RAM / 512 GB SSD + 2TB ssd via usb3, N100 CPU)
No problems whatsoever.
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Amazing. Is it still running well?
I have a 3520 that I’m setting up, with 8GB, but only 1TB SATA drive.
Not sure it’s enough for the whole BTC node though, plus other services too…
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Successful install of 0.3.5.1 and transfer from a pi to a Dell Optiplex 755, probably 8gb ram and 2TB portable hard drive. It’s an old machine I had around when the pi died.
Also, installed on a Frankenstein Lenovo, may use this for Jellyfin.
Finally put to the old Dell out to pasture! The HD was in dire need of an upgrade so the decision was made to go with new hardware all around.
The new hardware purchased from Amazon:
Beelink Mini PC, AMD Ryzen 7 5825U
Crucial RAM 64GB Kit
Crucial P3 4TB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD
I would have purchased a Server One right from Start 9 but they were put of stock at the time I was shopping around!
For the install, I went with Proxmox VE 8.3.2 following Cyph3rp9nk Guide to building a Bitcoin Super Node and I used start9dave suggestion on how the Best way to migrate from one pc to another using the Transfer Data to a New Drive guide .
Everything went smoothly on the new hardware/software side and the only issue I ran into was with my Tor Browser on my remote PC.
I was able to connect to most of my running services over the Tor network with the exception of the main server login. All that would show up is a blank, white screen.
Long story short, I wound up reinstalling the Tor Browser and Tor service on my PC and now all seems fine!
My reasoning for installing StartOS on top of Proxmox is for experimenting with hardware redundancy / high availability / geo-redundancy.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!