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Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
30-03-2022, 02:26
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RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
Thanks, @davidp. How did you decide on the WD Blue SSD's?

Melco HA-N1ZH60 Mk1 (MinimServer 2) --> network --> AURALiC ARIES G2 --> Lightning Link (WWPS7 hdmi) --> AURALiC VEGA G2 with AURALiC LEO GX Master Clock --> XLR --> Mark Levinson No. 523 --> RCA --> JL Audio E-Sub e110 (active crossover @ 100 Hz) --> RCA --> Bryston 4B3 (Cubed) --> Magnepan .7
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30-03-2022, 10:17
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RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
@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.
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31-03-2022, 01:20
Post: #23
RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
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.

Melco HA-N1ZH60 Mk1 (MinimServer 2) --> network --> AURALiC ARIES G2 --> Lightning Link (WWPS7 hdmi) --> AURALiC VEGA G2 with AURALiC LEO GX Master Clock --> XLR --> Mark Levinson No. 523 --> RCA --> JL Audio E-Sub e110 (active crossover @ 100 Hz) --> RCA --> Bryston 4B3 (Cubed) --> Magnepan .7
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01-04-2022, 09:45
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RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
@GreenMtnGringo Conventional HDs not SSDs
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01-04-2022, 16:37
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RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
@davidp, thanks for the clarification, very interesting....

Melco HA-N1ZH60 Mk1 (MinimServer 2) --> network --> AURALiC ARIES G2 --> Lightning Link (WWPS7 hdmi) --> AURALiC VEGA G2 with AURALiC LEO GX Master Clock --> XLR --> Mark Levinson No. 523 --> RCA --> JL Audio E-Sub e110 (active crossover @ 100 Hz) --> RCA --> Bryston 4B3 (Cubed) --> Magnepan .7
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13-05-2022, 14:38
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RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
(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
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13-05-2022, 15:01 (This post was last modified: 13-05-2022 15:07 by simoncn.)
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RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
N1A and N1Z/2 I used BX100 SSDs, which are no longer available.
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13-05-2022, 15:47
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RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
(13-05-2022 15:01)simoncn Wrote:  N1A and N1Z/2 I used BX100 SSDs, which are no longer available.

Great, thank you.
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18-05-2022, 21:12 (This post was last modified: 18-05-2022 21:12 by lyapounov.)
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RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
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 ?
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18-05-2022, 21:45
Post: #30
RE: Changing Hard Drive in a Melco
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.
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