Hi there
I'm starting a new bitcoin node and the initial block download is going very slow (running v27). It seems like it connects to a handful of peers, downloads about 100 MB and then disconnect from all of the peers only to reconnect again to new/other peers after a couple hours or so.
I don't have any connection issues, but there might be something obvious I am missing in my set up, hardware wise it is a new MacBook Pro connected to gigabit ethernet and the blocks are being stored on a 5 TB external Winchester hard drive (Winchester black) connected via usbc. The hard drive is not an SSD.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as nube here.
Thanks All.