Quote from: ToF on December 03, 2016, 10:33:17 AM

It *almost* worked for me in the end, but it crashed at the armoryDB.exe part still. I reinstalled Armory and without wallet it worked, then when I imported the old wallet it happened again after trying to sync.

So i thought maybe the blockchain got corrupt (Bitcoin Core was synced but there were no wallets in it). Anyway, I am now running Bitcoin Core getting fresh blockchain. Problem is, it seems it will take at least 10 days to fully sync. Is it normal these days?

This is basically your last resort, albeit I can't think of any other issue causing your grief. Your only other solution is to let me SSH/TeamViewer into your machine so I can debug the code directly.

10 days is a bit excessive, but if you have bad connectivity to the network and/or a slow CPU, it will take days. It would prolly take my machine over 12h to sync the full chain now (for info, it builds & scans Armory's DB in 4min total, and I'm on fiber internet).

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I am running it on the NAS and while the CPU and RAM usage is relatively low, the NAS is hammered badly. I can hear its 6 RAID-6 connected HDDs working all the time now. The NAS has write speed of around 100MB/s.

When I was syncing the blockchain on the internal SSD, the laptop was unusable almost completely.

Since the headers first change in Core, the chain data commit is random, which will grind a HDD to a crawl. The process is very CPU intensive too, courtesy of ECDSA. It will routinely max your cores.