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Disk sizes in the README were 1-2 years stale: mainnet/gnosis dated May 2025, polygon April 2024, and the datadir breakdown November 2024. The bor-mainnet du block was never real output either — it prints /erigon-data/... rows for a command run on /erigon/snapshots/*.

Numbers are measured on the snapshotter-bm-v36-* archive nodes. Those boxes run with receipts, commitment history and Caplin archive enabled, so the per-component data is split: the totals are a default --prune.mode=archive node, and the optional data is listed separately with the flag that turns it on.

Polygon is dropped throughout. Per docs/site/docs/fundamentals/supported-networks.md, the final release series that officially supports it is 3.1.*.

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  • System Requirements: bullets replaced with a per-chain table (Ethereum, Gnosis, Sepolia, Hoodi, Chiado), matching the figures published on the hardware-requirements page
  • Erigon3 datadir size: the two du blocks replaced with a per-subdir table across the same five chains, plus a table of what receipts / commitment history / Caplin archive each add
  • Removed the polygon size bullet, the polygon sync-times row, --chain=bor-mainnet / --chain=amoy, and the "experimental for Polygon" block-production clause
  • Fixed in the touched paragraphs: two dead #cloud-network-drives self-anchors (the section moved to the docs site in Created dedicated folder for help section #17896), domain count 4 -> 6 (db/kv/tables.go:719-725), the chaindata < 15gb claim, and the renamed --caplin.archive flag (now --caplin.{blocks,blobs,states}-archive)

Figures are byte-exact and use the same units as the docs Database page, so the two agree digit-for-digit. erigon snapshots du independently reproduces the per-category totals.

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Pairs with #22867, which refreshes the same numbers on the docs site. Sync Times is untouched — no fresh measurement, and it has not been updated since January 2025.

Sizes were 1-2 years stale (mainnet/gnosis May 2025, polygon April 2024,
datadir breakdown Nov 2024) and the bor-mainnet du block was never real
output - it prints /erigon-data rows for a du run on /erigon/snapshots/*.

Measured on the snapshotter-bm-v36-* archive nodes. Optional data that is
off by default (receipts, commitment history, caplin archive) is broken out
separately instead of being folded into the totals.

Polygon is dropped: the final release series that officially supports it is
3.1.*, per docs/site/docs/fundamentals/supported-networks.md.

Also fixed in the touched paragraphs: two dead #cloud-network-drives
self-anchors, the domain count (4 -> 6), the chaindata size claim, and the
renamed --caplin.archive flag.
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The breakdown covered only eth-mainnet and gnosis. Same five chains as
the docs Database page now, in the same units, so the two agree
digit-for-digit.
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