Quote from: Kluge on September 21, 2013, 07:32:15 AM

Quote from: Roy Badami on September 20, 2013, 10:04:10 PM

Right, but on a laptop increasing either is often hard.

Sure, the RAM reduce work you're doing is appreciated - of course I'd rather have the blockchain on disk than in RAM. But not everyone has 1TB of anything. Fortunately 128GB will, I hope, be enough in the short term.

roy

I don't think that argument holds up with modern laptops. Most of them have "hotswap" ports, where you just slide a HDD in. You can alternately simply connect an external HDD either via USB, or maybe even wirelessly via BT (not sure if those exist, yet).

Oh, sure I can use an external drive.... but having to lug one around seriously impacts the portability of my computer. Anyway, none of this is intended to be a criticism of Armory - I'm very appreciative of the work that etotheipi has done and continues to do. I'm just pushing back against this idea that resources are somehow infinite because you can always upgrade your machine. That's clearly not true (and if it were there'd be no need for the ram reduction etotheipi is working on).

roy

EDIT: Fortunately I don't think anyone is seriously saying the cost of reducing the RAM usage below 4GB will be to increase the disk usage above 1TB - so this discussion is somewhat academic