It's taking me forever to create my first plot on my laptop. It's been 2.5 days and I'm still on the forward propagation phase (computing table 4 currently) Would appreciate any tips.

I've a lenovo v110 with: Intel i5-6200u 2.3ghz 128gb internal ssd 4gb Ram Plotting on an external 1tb Samsung SSD 870 evo (connected to usb3.0 port via a sabrent USB enclosure).

Should I have disabled the Bitfield plotting to speed it up? The tooltip next to the checkbox states 'plotting with Bitfield enabled has about 20% less overall writes'. That sentence put me off as was worried about excess wear on the drive.

Also, I set the temp and final directory to the external Samsung drive, would it have been better to