Best practices for USB music storage for Nucleus? Questions

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

I formatted the USB drive as OS X Journaled and later read that that is a read-only format for the Nucleus. Is it worth reformatting in a different format?

yes. exFAT.

I cannot view the USB drive on the network even though the Nucleus shows up just fine.

your USB drive is at: smb://nucleus/Data/Storage/XXXXX/

I cannot easily backup the music drive (see previous comment - I assume I have to do the same thing). Again, is there an easier way to do this?

use the smb path – it works and is the easiest thing to use. if you can’t get it working, the community and our support team can help.

Should I consider a different approach to storing the music files for the Nucleus, instead of the external USB drive? That might the previous concerns less of a concern or simply be a better approach in general.

Internal drive works too. but if you are ok with something hanging off the back, USB is more flexible.

My advice if you want USB storage:

1. exFAT, USB, SSD, 4tb or larger
2. use SMB to add music or drag/drop to Roon app from Mac/Windows
3. use NAS or another computer to do a backup locally once a night – just a quick sync from the USB to some other drive in the house
4. use some form of backup like Backblaze to backup the backup from step 3 to the cloud