Is there any way to quickly sync a Monero full node to a mechanical hard drive instead of a solid-state drive?

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

You can get a known good node data and copy it, otherwise no. Syncing and checking the node data as it arrives requires short reads from unpredictable locations in the data, which a spinning disk will be slow at sompared to an ssd.

@fantuan first if you said "work slower on Linux than Windows (it takes about 17 days to sync)" do you already do
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
then restart? somehow my ubuntu server feels so slow last time before i did it, and foundout the network things they using by default was the older ones, so the speed capped around like...50Mbps
even with maximum speed, if doing multiple different things, he seems had delayed something. maybe its worth to try

second things, if on windows and linux using same hdd. then try to increase ram usage on
/etc/sysctl.conf
but if not using the same hdd, maybe the hdd you plug on linux just bad man... had less speed than the windows ones. (psst why not search and buy chinese ssd? i just bought it around 13.87$ for 128GB last month)
one things i learn while using linux for past few years was to maximize the use of ram, instead disk, they making some process feels faster than before. and dont forget to always check HTOP to see where the problem is.... is that the disk usage, processor, ram, or other. so you can tune it more after it

@UsualCat It feels like using NTFS via NTFS-3g on Linux incurs significant overhead. Also, I’m puzzled by the discrepancy in speeds: even accounting for the performance hit caused by Linux's NTFS compatibility layer, my HDD still manages 20 MB/s for read/write operations, yet my Monerod full node is only running at 0.4 MB/s, while my network download speed is 4 MB/s (over Wi-Fi).

@fantuan hmmmm i had no idea.... for me i using ext4 on my ubuntu server. why not change them to other? maybe it will be faster (?) way back on past when i still learning linux, ppl said that using NTFS on linux will create additional overhead which is make read and write more slow, (but to be honest i never encounter it myself, since my first linux already using ext4

why not test it using ext4? maybe the NTFS was real issue til now

@UsualCat I use a Windows data drive; since I have a separate Windows hard drive, I like to use that HDD to store data and share it between Linux and Windows.