Hello - I used a Raspberry PI about a year before I created this node and understand the pain of the almost week-long resync.

I found it much faster to setup a Virtual Machine (using something like virtualbox - free), connect the same SSD from the PI and having the more powerful machine download/verify the blockchain. 

I hope you all the best with the resync.

That's a great idea! I'll have to try that tonight. Maybe I can get access to my sats by tomorrow morning!