<p><a href="https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bitcoin.org</a> suggests the following minimum system requirements:</p>

<blockquote>
  <ul>
  <li>Desktop or laptop hardware running recent versions of Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.</li>
  <li>145 gigabytes of free disk space</li>
  <li>2 gigabytes of memory (RAM)</li>
  <li>A broadband Internet connection with upload speeds of at least 400 kilobits (50 kilobytes) per second</li>
  <li>An unmetered connection, a connection with high upload limits, or a connection you regularly monitor to ensure it doesn’t exceed its upload limits. It’s common for full nodes on high-speed connections to use 200 gigabytes upload or more a month. Download usage is around 20 gigabytes a month, plus around an additional 140 gigabytes the first time you start your node.</li>
  <li>6 hours a day that your full node can be left running. (You can do other things with your computer while running a full node.) More hours would be better, and best of all would be if you can run your node continuously.</li>
  </ul>
</blockquote>

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2019-06-07T13:42:26.543Z
As of 2019 this answer is no longer up to date. At least not with respect to disk space. Today you need at least 250 GB.
Thorkil Værge
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2019-06-09T08:14:28.707Z
@Thorkil feel free to update the answer, although the website suggests 200 GB not 250 GB
meshcollider
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2017-07-15T20:08:29.717Z
2017-07-15T20:08:29.717Z
meshcollider
<p>I want to run a full node in order to support the network, however i am wondering about what are the technical requirements to do so.</p>

<p>how much RAM(for utxo) do I need? and what internet throughput will be sufficient?</p>

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technical requirement to running a Bitcoin node
Sig Touri
# technical requirement to running a Bitcoin node

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-07-15)

I want to run a full node in order to support the network, however i am wondering about what are the technical requirements to do so.

how much RAM(for utxo) do I need? and what internet throughput will be sufficient?

**Tags:** nodes, full-node


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-07-15. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

[Bitcoin.org](https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node) suggests the following minimum system requirements:

> * Desktop or laptop hardware running recent versions of Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.
> * 145 gigabytes of free disk space
> * 2 gigabytes of memory (RAM)
> * A broadband Internet connection with upload speeds of at least 400 kilobits (50 kilobytes) per second
> * An unmetered connection, a connection with high upload limits, or a connection you regularly monitor to ensure it doesn’t exceed its upload limits. It’s common for full nodes on high-speed connections to use 200 gigabytes upload or more a month. Download usage is around 20 gigabytes a month, plus around an additional 140 gigabytes the first time you start your node.
> * 6 hours a day that your full node can be left running. (You can do other things with your computer while running a full node.) More hours would be better, and best of all would be if you can run your node continuously.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: As of 2019 this answer is no longer up to date. At least not with respect to disk space. Today you need at least 250 GB.  
> **username_1**: @Thorkil feel free to update the answer, although the website suggests 200 GB not 250 GB  

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