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 I tried and failed to zap your note. 
 My bitcoin node has had yet another critical failure for the 10th time , rebuilding it. 
 Critical as in the SSD? 
 SSD is fine, but leveldb loves to randomly corrupt. This time I couldn’t even reindex, have to redownload the whole chain. Thats the critical part 
 Does it run on proper hardware (x86, not a Pi) and is the SSD connected via PCIe or SATA? If it’s connected via USB, I’d change that as soon as possible, as this could cause issues. 
 bro 
 A minimum of 2 SSDs in RAID 1.  SSDs great for speed but not as reliable as HDDs.   
 Apparently it gets corrupted even in raid setups according to people i’ve talked to here… i suspect there is a bug but core devs don’t think so 
 I struggled with the same issue and it turns out it was a bad motherboard that couldnt mantain a stable sata connection. 
 mine is a runs forever on a old laptop without me doing anything