EOSIO Block Producer Hardware Recommendations

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There are a few roles for servers - API, P2P, HYPERION, and PRODUCER

# Producer Role

EOSIO block producers are mostly single threaded for processing transactions.

...so normally I would never recommend using desktop hardware in place of server hardware, but in the case of producer nodes where clockspeed is king and you can mitigate risk by running a failover node - it's not THAT bad.
You might use a Z490 PRIME mobo with a i9-10900k, water cooling, and 32GB RAM (can't use ECC ram. another drawback to using desktop hardware.) 
I'd recommend a enterprise SSD 
1 out of 6 EVO SSDs have failed completely
Could have been a faulty one. could have been a meltdown. it was only running for 2 months
Also, there are enterprise SSDs with pricing on par with EVOs now so the reliability is worth it

## Other recommendations:
I7-7700k @ 4.5GHz , OS and /state on nvme and /blocks on SATA .. for our producer
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
primary on i9, backup on E5-1620 v4 @ 3.50GHz
We're using the 10900K i9 I believe (for producing)

Normally a producer goes with nvme or ssd, 480GB or so. The block logs and state history are normally stored on HDD
Hyperion - depends on the network. But 12x HDD drives on a RAID controller work fine for Wax, which is pretty busy recently
And no aws or gcp, everything baremetal