I bought a second 10TB harddrive just to be able to run a full eth node, right now even fast sync of eth requires like 400GB+, full archives sits at 6TB+ [1]. When infura went down, the whole network had issues [2]. I'm really hoping the eth2 will somewhat improve the situation, but we'll see.

1: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/

2: https://cryptobriefing.com/infura-outage-sparks-debate-over-...