I've been told more than once that for a pruned node to get sync'ed, it takes like 2 or 3h.
That's
very optimistic
A pruned node still needs to download and verify about 350 GB of data.
But not in my case.
It's now almost 20h and it is still at 06/2019.
Is this normal or it should be way faster?
Depending on your other system specs, this seems normal. It should be done by tomorrow.
This is a RockPro64 board with 4Gb of RAM. It uses a Dual-core Cortex-A72 up to 2.0GHz CPU an a Quad-core Cortex-A53 up to 1.5GHz CPU.
But I think the main role in the process is at the capability of read/write of the storage drive which is pretty much the best we can get at an affordable price (the Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 drive).
But I'm still not sure it's all good now because I've been told more than once that for a pruned node to get sync'ed, it takes like 2 or 3h. But not in my case.
It's now almost 20h and it is still at 06/2019.
Is this normal or it should be way faster? I'm running this on a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 drive.
That depends on your hardware, but obviously there's bottleneck. On blog
2020 Bitcoin Node Performance Tests, he uses Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2 SSD (similar to yours) with high-end hardware and managed to fully sync in 5 hours 41 minutes.
But IMO 20h to reach 06/2019 is quite fast since some people took days to weeks to fully sync Bitcoin node.
yeah, I guess my bottleneck now is on the CPU computing power.