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add(docs): Add minimal hardware requirements #8822

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# System Requirements

We recommend the following requirements for compiling and running `zebrad`:
Zebra has the following hardware requirements.

## Recommended Requirements
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- 4 CPU cores
- 16 GB RAM
- 300 GB available disk space for building binaries and storing cached chain
state
- 300 GB available disk space
- 100 Mbps network connection, with 300 GB of uploads and downloads per month

Zebra's tests can take over an hour, depending on your machine. Note that you
might be able to build and run Zebra on slower systems — we haven't tested its
exact limits yet.
## Minimal Requirements
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- 2 CPU cores
- 4 GB RAM
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- 300 GB available disk space

You can run Zebra fine on a computer such as Orange Pi Zero 2W with a 512 GB
microSD card.
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## Disk Requirements

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- Ongoing updates: 10 MB - 10 GB upload and download per day, depending on
user-created transaction size and peer requests.

Zebra performs an initial sync every time its internal database version changes,
so some version upgrades might require a full download of the whole chain.

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Zebra needs some peers which have a round-trip latency of 2 seconds or less. If
this is a problem for you, please [open a
ticket.](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/issues/new/choose)