Accessorizing the Nucleus

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Obviously we all have our opinions and favorites after years of trying to go where no one has gone before !!!

I am curious with the community on their opinions on 3 general items.

#1 What is your favorite hard drive to use inside a Nucleus?
#2 What is your favorite stand alone CD ripper to use with a nucleus
#3 What is your favorite NAS to use on the network for music storage.

I have my thoughts but they are formed from my experiences, and would love to hear yours!

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I put this one in my Nucleus that I bought on black Friday. I don’t own much music of my own, so I don’t need much space.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078DPCY3T/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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  1. +1 on James’ drive recommendation I’ve used this same drive in at least 10 applications and never had one fail.

  2. dB PowerAmp

  3. Have not used any current NAS devices

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Thanks for your thoughts James, Happy New year

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Thank you Michael, Happy New Year

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I don’t have a Nucleus but a ROCK, use Samsung SSD for music storage, a cheap cd drive connected to the ROCK for cd ripping, I don’t use NAS for music it’s backup only music storage is the above SSD.

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  1. Samsung Evo, WD Black.
  2. It doesn’t matter. The ripping software matters more and Roon’s choices in how they did this so you simply want a decent reliable brand.
  3. Again it doesn’t matter. Choices are made with regards to size, space, noise etc. It should be transparent to Roon.
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Samsung Evo have always been superb. As with any SSD, make sure never to fill it beyond the 2/3-3/4 mark. That will preserve it’s life and keep your system fast.

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  1. +1 on @Jim_F’s recommendation on SSD to use internally in the Nucleus+. It’s what I use with my Nucleus+. I’d recommend storing the music to play there. It provides optimal speed and removes one variable (the NAS) that can go wrong when playing music.

  2. I don’t use the Nucleus for CD ripping. I rip on a Mac Pro via XLD which is my music master and where I do any necessary metadata / artwork editing via Yate. The music here gets synced automatically to my Nucleus+ SSD via Chronosync.

  3. I have a Synology NAS DS3617xs which I use to store a backup of my music (it also get synced with my Mac Pro music master via Chronosync and I use Synology’s CloudSync to sync the music offsite to BackBlaze. This gives me the best environment to rip/edit metadata, optimal access speed for the music on my Nucleus+, multiple local copies of my music and an offsite copy - and yes, I’m a bit paranoid about losing files/work as I’ve done extensive meta data work and don’t want to lose it (every artist has a photo, every album has a cover, lyrics with almost all tracks with voice). I also use my NAS for Roon Backups from my Nucleus.

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Thanks Craig, good info, very nice. Greatly appreciate your opinions.

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