<p>This is expected, depending on your hardware, mostly CPU and disk speed, it can take some time.</p>
<p>Cardano mainnet launched about 4 years ago, but just in the last 3 months, the storage taken by the db synced chain has doubled from 30G to 60G.</p>

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Marek Mahut - StakeNuts
<p>Has anyone synced a node lately? It has been 3 days and I've only reached 75% of the tip. This is much slower than a few months ago. I'm currently only connected to the IOHK North America relay with a valency of 3.</p>

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Stake pool blockchain sync is incredibly slow
# Stake pool blockchain sync is incredibly slow

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-11-25)

Has anyone synced a node lately? It has been 3 days and I've only reached 75% of the tip. This is much slower than a few months ago. I'm currently only connected to the IOHK North America relay with a valency of 3.

**Tags:** stake-pool, cardano-db-sync, spo

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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-11-25. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

This is expected, depending on your hardware, mostly CPU and disk speed, it can take some time.

Cardano mainnet launched about 4 years ago, but just in the last 3 months, the storage taken by the db synced chain has doubled from 30G to 60G.


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