I’ve come to realize now that my 500GB internal drive isn’t large enough and I’d like to increase its capacity to at least 2TB on my Nucleus.
This may be a very simple process for most of you but I’m not a computer whiz and that’s why I went with the Nucleus in the first place.
please tell me how to get the files that I’ve ripped to the 500GB internal drive onto a new 2TB internal drive.
Hey @NipperDog,
Thanks for writing in!
Before anything else, make a fresh backup of your current database for safe keeping.
Here’s a KB with more information you’ll find helpful:
Let me know if you have any additional questions along the way. 
Thanks for your reply.
Number 4 on the list of steps you posted above is the very question I need help with performing. I don’t know how to move/copy the files to the new location.
Hi @NipperDog,
You’ll first need to connect a USB drive to your Nucleus. From there, do this:
You can copy music to/from the Internal Drive by visiting the network share:
From a Mac:
From there, you’ll need to follow the steps to swap out the internal storage drive that @benjamin shared above.
Once you’ve finished, use the same SMB method above to copy the files from the USB storage location back to the new internal storage.
Thank you Connor. I should have mentioned that I already have an outboard USB drive (for backups) connected to my Nucleus.
If I were to replace the internal drive containing my ripped files with a larger internal drive unit, how would I move the files from my external backup to a new larger internal drive?
Do you own a Windows computer? If you do, I think you could remove the internal drive from your Nucleus and connect it to your Windows computer using USB. Then install and properly format your new, larger drive in the Nucleus. Connect the Windows computer and Nucleus to the same network and use Windows File Explorer to drag and drop the files from the old drive to the new drive.
If you use Apple instead of Windows, I think it would work in a similiar fashion.
No Jim, I’m on a Mac computer and if I recall correctly, I wouldn’t be able to connect the internal drive to a USB cable because the internal SSD drive has a completely different type of connector.
Doesn’t your Mac computer have a USB type A port to plug an external drive into? What kind of drive did you install in your Nucleus to store your music? Was is something like this?
Is this what you want to upgrade to 2TB? You probably have the correct cable for your backup drive. Just remove it temporarily.
Otherwise, I’m all out of ideas.
This is the internal one I went with. It’s even smaller than I thought. My external drive is this one. My Mac has USB-C ports.
Then yes, to do what I was suggesting you would need a SATA to USB type C adapter or cable for about $20 on Amazon. I’m going to butt out and let you continue on with @connor
Hey @NipperDog,
You have two options - the first is similar to what @connor mentioned above:
In this situation, you’d need to temporarily transfer the files likely onto a folder on the Mac. Of course, you could transfer them to another location of your choosing, you’d just need a safe spot to keep them temporarily.
From there, you’d follow the steps to swap out the original drive and replace it with the new drive. After that, you’d follow a similar process but in reverse, and transfer the files back to the new drive over your network.
The other option is precisely what @Jim_F mentioned:
You could get a converter/adapter cable and transfer the files from the SSD directly to the Mac temporarily, and follow a similar process with the new drive.
Let me know if this makes sense!
Thanks to all of you that have answered my questions in this thread. I think I have enough information here to be able to accomplish the transfer now.
I just need to read it over a few times to make sure understand the process.
I’ll be back again if I still have questions.
Sounds good @NipperDog - we’ll be here in case you have questions along the way! 