Hard drive uptions

[SMB-2525]

Windows 8.1
I have an internal SSD encrypted with bitlocker. It has everything right now.
I have an external USB3 SSD unencrypted.
Right now it takes Armory a couple of hours to build the database on the bitlocker drive using a most of 1.7 GHz Intel core. Sometimes CPU usage on the core drops below 80%.
Would I be better off figuring out how to put the block chain on the external but unencrypted SSD drive?

[njaard]

There's little reason to put Armory's (or bitcoin-qt's) blockchain on SSD or have it encrypted from a cost-benefit point of view.

[Automatic]

There's little reason to put Armory's (or bitcoin-qt's) blockchain on SSD or have it encrypted from a cost-benefit point of view.

This. Honestly, I think if you just left an old PC on in suspend(2ram/S3) mode it'd probably be quicker (Than booting) and cheaper (Power for powering RAM vs for full boot & SSD).

[justusranvier]

There's little reason to put Armory's (or bitcoin-qt's) blockchain on SSD or have it encrypted from a cost-benefit point of view.

There's little reason to have unencrypted drives at all, for any application.

[Automatic]

There's little reason to put Armory's (or bitcoin-qt's) blockchain on SSD or have it encrypted from a cost-benefit point of view.

There's little reason to have unencrypted drives at all, for any application.

My laptop is unencrypted because the CPU doesn't support Intel's AES instruction set so I can only pull about 100MB/s encrypt and decrypt, however, I can easily pull 500MB/s throughput without it.
My desktop is unencrypted because I see legitimately no need for it, and, although I would do it if it were easy, configuring dm-crypt over mdadm would take about an extra hour and I'm way to lazy for that.

There you go, there's two reasons. I do own some computers that do have full disk encryption on data drives, but, absolutely none with full disk encryption on the boot drive, way too much hassle and slows disk access down too much, even with perfect configurations.