Ethereum Clients Support History Pruning

All Ethereum execution layer clients now support partial history expiry, which prunes historical block data older than the Merge and reduces node disk space requirements by approximately 300 to 500 GB. Before the update, full nodes stored the entire chain history from Genesis on July 30, 2015, often requiring over 1 TB. Ethereum core developer Lightclients noted that archive node users and developers relying on full historical data will soon need to migrate to external history data providers, while current state data is always retained.