Importing Music Internal SSD

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

@Tim_Coppola

intel nuc8i7 with internal samsung 870 4TB storage.

Just want to clarify, you have 1 drive for ROCK, or, you have 1 OS drive for ROCK and 1 storage drive for music. The ROCK OS drive cannot store music or be used for anything else other than just the OS.

@Tim_Coppola

• Is one able to reformat it to exFAT or once re-installing, will the roon web interface wipe it and reformat it to whatever it uses?

ROCK is a linux and does not use exFAT for internal drives. I believe it uses ext4. The drive MUST be initially formatted by ROCK. Then it can be removed and mounted using the appropriate software. Not sure if Mac can do it natively.

@Tim_Coppola

• would this issue exist if i was using windows?

Yes, See this post

ROCK Formatting internal storage to ext4 …

The Windows drivers for ext4 can be flaky, especially for writing data. I’ve seen them used more for reading data off a drive. However, I think since v2021 Windows opened up ext4 access by mounting via the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 using a specialized WSL mount command. I have not tried it, but, if you want to this should help. Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 I still think a simple external USB drive is always the best option for a NUC (or Nucleus) for a variety of reasons. Since, what …

@Tim_Coppola

• how does one transfer large amounts of music at once? (Im aware that plugging in external drive to rock will cause the files to perform two network hops)

Copy it over the network. I am not sure what the “1.2TB monthly xfinity data cap on my internet plan.” has to do with copy data within your local network. It shouldn’t have any impact on your xfinity data cap.

@Tim_Coppola

• do most prefer external drives connected to their rock for this reason?

I certainly do. Also, you cannot backup the Roon database to an internal drive, so you will need an attached drive, or, network location as a backup destination.