Node worked fine for months and stopped working

Support and Troubleshooting
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The node was built with all the genuine parts recommended by Umbrel (Ras power supply, etc)
All these error messages are displayed but they don`t seem to make sense:

Error: External drive disconnected
The external drive was disconnected while Umbrel was running. This can sometimes happen when using an unofficial Raspberry Pi power supply.

Error: Version mismatch
The version of UmbrelOS on your microSD card is not compatible with the version of Umbrel on your external drive.

Error: System service failed
Something went wrong when starting Umbrel.

Error: Failed to start containers
Something went wrong when starting Umbrel.

Error: No external drive found
Please connect an external drive (at least 1TB) to a USB 3.0 port (blue color) on your Raspberry Pi and restart your Umbrel.

Error: Multiple external drives found
Umbrel only works with one external drive of atleast 1TB size. Please disconnect any additional external drives and restart your Umbrel.

Error: Failed to connect external drive
There was an error connecting your external drive. Please consider using the recommended hardware listed on getumbrel

Thoughts? Thanks

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Definitely hardware failure. Change the USB cable and/or port

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You have to test the USB cable (the wire) and the USB to SATA adapter (board or case).
1- Connect the SSD disk to a computer USB 3 (blue inside terminal) to the SSD, and then do a copy of a big file (greater tham 1GB) from the SSD to the SSD itself. USB copy speed should be around 100MB/s.
2- If less speed, test the USB cable (wire) changing it by another cable.
3 - If still no better copy speed, change the USB to SATA board or case to test it.
4- Finally, if no better speed, change the SSD diskto another to check if it was causing the problem.
To do this tests you need a working second kit of usb wire, case and SSD.

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Thanks @DarthCoin and @LoboGuara for taking the time to provide your thoughts.
I unplugged the device, removed and reinserted the micro SD card and replugged it and now it works again… When I had issues before with my other nodes, the micro SD card has often been the main point of failure. I still have a SanDisk Extreme on this one but now I’m using the SanDisk High Endurance and it seems more reliable.

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