Melco Audiophile NAS

[davidp]

I took the plunge and bought two WD40EZAZ drives - 4Tb with 256Mb caches which I installed this morning after a 23 hour backup of my 6Tb spanned array. Fairly easy transplant. The drives are held by two 'bars' - one U channel - with two screws each. These mount to the case on four pillars with possibly sorbothane, certainly soft rubber, inserts. I removed the Neutrik USB to make things really easy. Tip for replacing the case - do the screws at the back up first then the sides. Unit powers up and needs resetting- it then reboots and asks how you would like to format the internal drive - spanned array. I've used the fresh backup to restore and expect at least a day's wait before I can listening to some music as the restore is going glacially slow. No sign of Minim Server - do I need to restore settings to put Minim Server back to how things were or is it going to be more complicated? @simoncn
I'll report again when I can play files - I see gamers and RAID array users have very little good to say about the AZ drives - the large cache is apparently because they are slower than the RZ drives they've replaced. I just noted my new 4Tb drives draw about ⅔ the current of the 3Tb drives and are 1dBA noisier according to the spec sheet - hopefull this is all either irrelevant or a benefit at the read speeds needed for even hi-res audio. David