quick question to @smooth .. do you know but not a show stopper to me at least it is not since I can connect to remote nodes for transactions, is it possible to fast sync and not on ssd drive steem chain (similar to eth with the --fast switch that syncs the chain local and allows transactions to proceed) again not a show stopper since remote works super well! thanks so much in advance
There is no fast sync but if you sync on one system (say a fast/expensive cloud node you rent for several hours), clean shutdown, and copy the shared memory file and block log to another system, it will work, even if the second system is much slower, has a lot less memory, doesn't have SSD, etc. They probably need to have the same OS, compiler versions, etc.
Added:
To be sure, there is a limit to this. The second system can't have really low memory
and no SSD because the swapping will be too slow to keep up with the network. But
either low memory or non-SSD will work.
If you can't meet that minimum you'll have to use a remote node.