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GreenMtnGringo · 30-03-2022, 02:26

Thanks, @davidp. How did you decide on the WD Blue SSD's?

davidp · 30-03-2022, 10:17

@GreenMtnGringo My Melco was already fitted from new with WD Blues and I assumed swapping like for like was the least risk. I'd used Reds in a NAS and found them noisy. I went from 2x3Tb WD Blues to 2x4Tb.

GreenMtnGringo · 31-03-2022, 01:20

Thanks, @davidp. I might have assumed a fact not in evidence -- did you install 4-TB WD Blue spinning hard drives or 4-TB WD Blue solid state drives?

Thanks.

davidp · 01-04-2022, 09:45

@GreenMtnGringo Conventional HDs not SSDs
Regards
David

GreenMtnGringo · 01-04-2022, 16:37

@davidp, thanks for the clarification, very interesting....

orange55 · 13-05-2022, 14:38

(21-10-2021 14:33)simoncn Wrote: Changing the factory HDDs to Crucial SSDs improved the sound quality for me.

Hi Smon

Can I ask which Melco model you swapped the drives on please? I have the NA1A. Thanks

simoncn · (This post was last modified: 13-05-2022 15:07 by simoncn.)

N1A and N1Z/2 I used BX100 SSDs, which are no longer available.

orange55 · 13-05-2022, 15:47

(13-05-2022 15:01)simoncn Wrote: N1A and N1Z/2 I used BX100 SSDs, which are no longer available.

Great, thank you.

lyapounov · (This post was last modified: 18-05-2022 21:12 by lyapounov.)

I have currently around 7T of music.

If I had to buy a Melco, would it mean putting either 2 x 4T SSD with no redundancy or 2 x 8T HDD with redundancy ?

And what about system files size ?

simoncn · 18-05-2022, 21:45

The music sounds better when the drives are formatted as spanned (no redundancy). It's better to do this and make sure you have a good backup.

On the latest Melco models (EX series), about 30 GB of disk space is used for system files.