Internal Drive Installation for Nucleus One Inquiry (ref#FY5O7B)

[Michael_Arones]

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Describe the issue

Details on Nucleus One internal SS height & install
I am considering the purchase of a Nucleus One to be my Roon music server.
I gather that there is not a purchase option to have an internal drive (hold the music files) pre-installed or even included in the order with customer install. So, I need to separately purchase a drive from a different source, for me to install.

The Nucleus One description states that it "features an easily accessible 2.5" drive tray, allowing you to add internal SATA storage of up to 8TB in just a few simple steps. ", yet the Nucleus One Quick Start Guide only discusses USB attached storage or NAS accessed storage.

Q#1: Is there a guide for internally installing a SATA drive on the Nucleus One? (I have never worked with computer hardware internals & have no experience in such tasks)

I did find an article "Installing Nucleus Internal Storage" but which appears to be for Nucleus models that preceded the Nucleus One.
It states that the SATA drive has to be "drive height of 7mm or 9mm for Nucleus Rev A". The drives I've seen while shopping simply state that they comply with the 2.5-inch SATA standard. Looking up the 2.5-inch SATA Standard, it says the drives are "The most common z-heights for 2.5-inch SSDs are 7 millimeters and 9.5 millimeters". It is odd that ROON expects the larger size to be 9mm while the 2.5" SATA Standard is 9.5".

Q#2: Do I need to only buy drives that are 7mm?

Describe your network setup

AT&T Router model 5268AC , Ubiquiti wifi

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

The specs on the website says up to 15 mm

Nucleus One

Installation is just opening the lid at the bottom, plugging cable, securing, closing the lid. See the official unboxing video, drive installation starts at about 0:43:

Nucleus One Unboxing

And yeah I don’t know why the help page hasn’t been updated

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

What are using currently as your Roonserver?

[Michael_Arones]

Thanks.

When I previously tried to open “Specifications”, it came up empty, but now it opens with the specs to which you refer. [ go figure … ??]

The video actually makes the drive installation look very easy.

[Michael_Arones]

Fair question. (why use a Nucleus?)

I have installed Roon Server on my Windows 10 desktop PC (which I use for ripping music CDs and organizing metadata and filing details before copying each to the ROON monitored directories).

It lacks enough storage for my entire collection and I could solve that by installing a higher capacity drive on the PC.

But I like the idea of a dedicated music serve, separate from my PC, that itself would still be used for managing the music (staging platform & backup) along with many other computer tasks).
In addition, when there are problems, having a roon standardized platform as the roon-server should simplify identifying the cause (removing any uniqueness of my server), though there are plenty of other factors (network, player, etc).