I've been working on syncing a full Monero node these past couple of days, but my SSD, which is my system hard drive, is only 128GB, which isn't enough. I then considered using my old Windows data drive, which is formatted as NTFS, but it seems to work slower on Linux than Windows (it takes about 17 days to sync). So, is there a faster way to sync Monero to my mechanical hard drive?
2026-08-15 11:15:47.940 I Synced 617300/3740628 (16%, 3123328 left) 2026-08-15 11:15:54.817 I Synced 617400/3740611 (16%, 3123211 left, 0% of total synced, estimated 8.6 months left) 2026-08-15 11:15:58.981 I [24.199.78.244:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 617400 -> 3740628 [Your node is 3123228 blocks (11.1 years) behind] 2026-08-15 11:15:58.981 I SYNCHRONIZATION started 2026-08-15 11:16:31.178 I Synced 617500/3740628 (16%, 3123128 left)
Is there any way to quickly sync a Monero full node to a mechanical hard drive instead of a solid-state drive?
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These are my current Monerod startup parameters.
./monerod \ --data-dir /mnt/windows/monero-node \ --prune-blockchain \ --sync-pruned-blocks \ --zmq-pub tcp://127.0.0.1:18083 \ --out-peers 32 \ --in-peers 64 \ --add-priority-node=p2pmd.xmrvsbeast.com:18080 \ --add-priority-node=nodes.hashvault.pro:18080 \ --enforce-dns-checkpointing \ --enable-dns-blocklist