Tried to sync core in a raspy 4 with sd card at the 4th week I surrender at ~60%. Had to invest in something with an NVMe to make the sync in 3 days. You have to be motivated to run a node, it is not a 1 afternoon task. Only 20.000 nodes WW shows there is an obvious friction to it.

Would you say it's doable with a SATA HDD at all?