Will Electrum take over my Hard Drive

[Possum]

I used the Windows Bitcoin app     https://bitcoin.org/en/download  to store send and receive my bitcoins. Now that I am on Linux I have downloaded Electrum.

I wasnt too happy with my Widows Wallet. It took forever to get up to date and used Tons of Hard drive space..


Does Electrum do the same...

Thank you..

[mocacinno]

No, it will not  

It's a HD wallet, it won't download the full blockchain, so it'll be really small.
Just remember to write down your seed words!

[jackbox]

No. it uses special servers and only scans the blockchain and downloads block headers only. It uses very little space compared to wallets that download the entire blockchain.

[torusJKL]

Electrum is an SPV (Simplified Payment Verification) client.

You can read about the differences of a Full and SPV node here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security