Bitcoin Core 0.17.1 Taking a very long time

[jimbobway]

My previous version was 0.14 or so.  I installed 0.17.1 and it seemed to delete all of the blocks on the SDD and then download them from scratch.  I have an i3 Intel Processor, 4 GB RAM, 320 SSD HD, so fairly new computer about 1-2 years old.  I have set the memory in Bitcoin Core to 2000MB in the settings.

In my task manager the Disk IO is maxed out at 100%.  I have 8 connections to the network.  Time to sync says 4 weeks.  Not sure why it is taking so long.  Been 1.5 days.

[jackg]

What's the speed of your computer?

Saying it's fairly new doesn't mean much. Is it windows or Linux?
And what are the specs of the CPU and the rw speeds of the SSD? There could be a bus or a controller issue, did it come with the SSD?

[jimbobway]

Ok, I'm an idiot.  It has a HD not an SSD.  Please delete thread.

[KingZee]

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.