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Post From: Downloading intraday data

[2013-05-22 11:03:41]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Have a look at this log at the end from a test we did on our system:
HD Request # 8 - Received 3220833 records from 2013-05-09 10:59:59 to 2013-05-22 10:59:16 (13.0 days) and wrote 3220833 records for EURUSD.ABBA | 2013-05-22 10:59:31
HD Request # 8 - Copying downloaded Intraday chart data from EURUSD.ABBA.temp.scid to EURUSD.ABBA.scid | 2013-05-22 10:59:31
HD Request # 8 - Timestamp of first Intraday data file record written: 2013-05-09 10:59:59 | 2013-05-22 10:59:31
HD Request # 8 - Intraday download COMPLETE for EURUSD.ABBA | 2013-05-22 10:59:32
Real-time intraday chart data file updates started for EURUSD.ABBA | 2013-05-22 10:59:32

It takes exactly 1 second to write 3.2 million records of data to the final output file.

In your log, this takes nearly 2 minutes:
HD Request # 63 - Received 3662160 records from 2013-01-15 17:59:59 to 2013-01-24 09:40:25 (8.7 days) and wrote 3662160 records for CHFJPY.ABBA | 2013-05-21 10:00:07
HD Request # 63 - Copying downloaded Intraday chart data from CHFJPY.ABBA.temp.scid to CHFJPY.ABBA.scid | 2013-05-21 10:00:07
HD Request # 63 - Timestamp of first Intraday data file record written: 2013-01-15 17:59:59 | 2013-05-21 10:00:07
HD Request # 63 - Intraday download COMPLETE for CHFJPY.ABBA | 2013-05-21 10:01:44
Real-time intraday chart data file updates started for CHFJPY.ABBA | 2013-05-21 10:01:44

You have something on your system causing this problem. That's the issue here. It's not the hardware itself. Your hardware is plenty fast enough. we have plenty of experience with this. There is something running on your system interfering with the process.
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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2013-05-22 11:30:04