Ok, so I had several issues, but I ran the problems back to that I was using an external SSD connected to the RPI (custom boot from the SSD drive and not the sd card) .

That's one problem, I guess I tried to fix the slowness of the RPI and it worked , but my choice of SSD is an old drive that was reformatted many times and used plenty of times with large file transfers and it had issues already, including the OS crashing for unknown reasons (The SSD had issues) , when it was used as a primary drive in a PC.

Interesting, that I tried to fix one problem (slow reading from micro sd card- an inherent issue with all RPIs ) but created another.

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