I recently installed my very fav FOSS OS (with the nvidia drivers) Arch Linux on a little external drive. So I can boot that OS up on the little USB3 drive and enjoy life.
I decided I had room on this 1T drive to run a Monero node, so YEAH! Why not?
Well I ended up seeing this:
Wow.. how spoiled we are by SSDs. So, I actually went to the trouble of moving this to a smaller but blazing fast 500G external SSD drive (it's an M.2 in a little case... ) And the monero chain will take up more % of the drive but, yeah... it's worth it.
I was just ~6700 blocks behind, and it was estimating hours. On the little SSD external? Looks like it will take 15m (I have about 5m left.
So anyway... just another reminder that indeed, Monero really really want's to be on an SSD for practical purposes. I would not want to wait hours every time I want to run my node after it going stale for a week or two...
One more question:
Why does "Feather" not get more love? I just installed the Monero CLI, and will run the node and Feather as my GUI. I truly appreciate the work that went into the official client, but Feather is just an almost perfect wallet... Even works with the Ledger!
