SSD or HD - what's best for running several crypto wallets? - page 2.

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Quote from: Lucasgabd on March 29, 2019, 09:03:34 AM

my biggest question was if blockchain frequent downloads would end up messing up with SSD performance or life.
but after some more research I'm convinced that this is problably not the case.

The question is what are those wallets that you would love to run with your SSD?

Ofcourse as time goes by and it is being used, performance makes it durability lessen in time but I don't think it will be easy for a new SSD to get into that point with what you are worrying with. If you use lite wallets, you don't have to think of network downloads.

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for altcoins a simple HD will probably do the work for you because they don't really need that much activity since mot of their chains are not used at all, and you can also always use light weight clients or web wallets like MEW,...
but of course it is obvious that SSD is hundreds of times faster and better for doing literary anything and that includes running cryptocurrency nodes.

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thanks for the answers.

first: I know about the risks of keeping hot wallets and I do my own research on making it secure and avoiding nasty internet stuff/keeping the computer clean.
also: I'd never keep my whole portifolio on hot wallets.
the topic is not about that, as I stated.

I've been running some system optimization and restarting more often.

my biggest question was if blockchain frequent downloads would end up messing up with SSD performance or life.
but after some more research I'm convinced that this is problably not the case.

more tests would be needed to verify if there's a really big speed difference on installing it on SSD VS HD.
but I don't have the time neither the desire to run it all right now

(would love to read about it if somebody else did it, though)

cheers!

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I don't have SSD but base on the feedbacks that I've read about it, no doubt that it's faster than HD. I don't think that there will be that much difference if you will run several crypto wallets on any of them.

Yes, SSD is faster but overall specs of your computer should be considered. When I'm in question like this and I have the capacity to try them out, I'd take an experiment which I can see you are good to conduct it. Try it out and see what makes you comfortable.

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I don't think I would advise you to store your coin in any external device apart from a hardware wallet because this devices are very vulnerable and they can fail at anytime,.

I remember when I had a lot of coins given to me by a project I actually worked on and when they started to trade on the exchange, I wasn't able to withdraw the funds to the exchange because I woke up one fateful morning to discover that my hard drive is not functioning anymore and my only hope was to format the hard-drive losing everything.

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I use HDD. I do not see much difference between the use of CDD in SSD for installing cryptocurrency wallets. If you use SSD, this gives you only advantage in the speed of blockchain loading and its synchronization. If you do not mind the extra money, then why not use the SSD.

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With past experience I will go for SSD over HD because SSD is strong and very longer lasting than HD but I don't like using windows wallet for two reasons.
1) to send coins out you have to fully sync the whole blockchain
2) window PC easily get infected with viruses ,spywares ,walwares ,trojan etc ,
To me mobile wallet is better and you don't need to sync the whole blockchain

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Neither of the both to me ,simply because you will still end up running windows on either one of the two ,keeping coins and tokens on your pc is high risk

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I don't have PoS wallets on, but I can try to give some educated guesses.

Clearly SSD is faster. Also usually smaller because of its price. It also has a certain lifetime (in number of writes afaik).
I think that if your wallets are in sync and loaded up, the SSD doesn't help much extra. So if your computer runs 24/7 HDD is still fine imho.
Instead, if you start your computer often so the wallets have to load up, SSD is the answer.

Also, if you remain on HDD and you install a new wallet, you better symlink the chain data folder to the SSD until it syncs, then stop, move the final data where it should be and run again.

SSD is great for keeping the files your computer needs to read often. Operating system, program files, some of the games are the ones tho keep on SSD on the first place.
Wallets.. it depends. Of course, if a wallet is poorly written it may try to do a lot of unnecessary disk operations. But that I didn't take into account. The rest depends on how you use everything.

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Hey folks,
Recently have installed a SSD on one of my machines and got impressed with its speed.
I run several crypto wallets of altcoins here and leave some staking.

Noticed the the computer lost a bit of performance over a couple of months.

What you think is best? installing the wallets on the SSD or the HD?

my first decision was to install it on the SSD but is there any chance that this is clogging the system and make performance slower?
would it be better to leave all wallets on the HD?

(I know the risks of cold VS hot wallet and usually don't keep substantial amounts on these hot wallets, just wondering about the performance here, not safety)

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