Quote from: Lauda on September 08, 2019, 12:31:22 PM

Quote from: LightningSphere on September 08, 2019, 12:12:40 PM

But it raises a question for me, why is syncing so hard on the HD? Blockchain is about 250G, that's only a few minutes for a SATA6 drive

You're not transferring data, you're downloading and validating it. The later being very resource heavy.

And with lots of read/write operation rather than sequence copy.

Quote from: LoyceV on September 08, 2019, 12:35:45 PM

Quote from: LightningSphere on September 08, 2019, 11:45:10 AM

I'm seriously considering getting my coins out of the wallet when I'm synced

That would be a waste: once synced, you'll never have to go through this again. Just keep Bitcoin Core running and it downloads 6 blocks per hour to remain fully synced.

And at most, you just need to download 360MB (2.5MB x 144) of blocks everyday. I'm sure it's small size for you since you could download about 150GB in a day (blockchain size in January 2018)