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jb55 | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 My bitcoin node has had yet another critical failure for the 10th time , rebuilding it.
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fiatdenier | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Critical as in the SSD?
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jb55 | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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
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Tobo | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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.
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jb55 | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 bro
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a0569adf | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A minimum of 2 SSDs in RAID 1.  SSDs great for speed but not as reliable as HDDs.
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jb55 | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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
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Gaftoso | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I struggled with the same issue and it turns out it was a bad motherboard that couldnt mantain a stable sata connection.
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clf99 | 23 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 mine is a runs forever on a old laptop without me doing anything