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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Bitcoin Core 0.17.1 Taking a very long time
by
KingZee
on 29/12/2018, 05:12:22 UTC
Ok, I'm an idiot.  It has a HD not an SSD.  Please delete thread.

Still related to your question, you should know that using an SSD for a full node might cause some heavy write/read load on it because the chainstate needs to be downloaded and verified.

If anyone else wants to use an SSD for a full node, it would be nice to use the -dbcache argument, this way instead of bitcore verifying the blockchain on disk by default, it gets done on RAM. So if you have 16GB+ it wouldn't be a bad idea to set -dbcache=8000 to 8GB.