If the block size doesn't also raise the processing requirement above what is available at the price point then of course not.

If you don't know what I mean, go get a 10 year old computer and see how long it takes.

Spinning disks are already pretty much impractical because you will be waiting at least several weeks if not months for IBD. I found you can squeeze it with 100gb of SSD set up using a caching tool, but it still was almost a week to sync.

If you already have access to a fully synced node, copying its data directory to a spinning disk might be viable, but the amount of read/write required for the database, my intuition is that it's just not practical with a ~550Gb chain, it will still struggle to sync just new blocks as they come in.