Bitcoin Core Storage Space

Hey guys, need some help here. I’ve got this old laptop with 1TB of storage and I'm using Bitcoin Core Wallet on it. Right now, I have about 187GB left. Honestly, I only use it for running Bitcoin Core and verifying blocks with the full blockchain. I’m just wondering, with the blockchain size growing like crazy, how long do you think 187GB will last me? I might switch to pruned mode if I have to, but I'm really curious about how long I can keep running it like this. Appreciate any insights!

Statista has a nice graph for the blockchain size. It shows Bitcoin's blockchain grows by approximately 90 GB per year.

Looking at Statoshi.info, average block size (including witness data) within last 6 months is 1.62MB[1]. Unfortunately that website doesn't mention average block time, which should be lower than 10 minutes since mining difficulty usually rising[2]. Anyway, here's my rough estimation But if Ordinal or similar protocol which use witness data to store arbitary data become popular again, your HDD will be full faster. [1] https://statoshi.info/d/000000002/blocks?orgId=1&from=now-6M&to=now [2] https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/charts/difficulty

Wow, such a thorough response there, thank you ABCbits.