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I think I’ve seen this one you’re narrating. I think it’s a different case entirely for me. I’m using an external drive that could get disconnected mistakenly, it happens when the hard drive gets suddenly disconnected and then I run Bitcoin Core again. I notice that if I was at 22% progress, it’ll start from 20% and will have a really high hourly progress, which I think is because it’s trying to verify the files again as it was untimely disconnected. Once it gets to where it was supposed to be, it drops the speed to the average you’ve been getting.