I decided to do major work on my library, so I made a copy onto an external hard drive and worked on that copy. The old library is on an SSD in my nuk based Rock system with the Rock is on an M2 ssd.
I reripped CDs with better lostless compression
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Plus added another 100 CDs.
All’s well now after a good 40 hours of work.
I was thinking that I could simply attach a keyboard and monitor to the nuk to move the old library to the ext hd and move the new library to the internal SSD.
Is there a way to do it? After trying it but not able to get it to boot up so that I can see directories and files, I am left with doing it on my windows computer over the network. So slow! It took 6 hours to bring the new folder of CDs over. Because the old library has a large number of live performance files (I am a retired performer) and to do the enhancement I separated out the live performance files, moving the old library off looks like it will take a couple of days!
And I still need to add back the live performances once I’ve added more detail to those files.
Is there a faster way? I did make the library disabled with the roon software so that roon doesn’t try to process the files while adding.
The network is the only way to access the contents of the internal storage of the ROCK system as far as I’m aware of.
You should connect the external hard drive directly to your Windows computer. having it connected to the ROCK only leads to unnecessary data transfer from the ROCK to your Windows PC and back again.
You should also use a wired network connection for the transfer.
Thanks for your response. I’m using my windows machine a couple of rooms over to transfer the files to and from the external HDD, which is plugged into the nuk. Still really slow. Its like the files move from the external HDD to the windows PC back to the internal SSD in the nuk. Moving the PC to get a hard wire connection is a good suggestion. Though not an easy move it is better than the multi day process of moving files. And all USB connects are USB 2 (with the blue parts on the plugs).
Did I do it all wrong? Is there a better way for this process? I have time to work on my library and perhaps the major overhaul strategy is not the best.
O.k. here we go again.
Connect the external hard disk to your Windows PC and use a wired connection if possible (last time I checked, NUC’s were small PC’s that easily can be transported) for the duration of the library transfer.
What you’re doing right now works but is slow – it’s your choice.
Blue normally stands for USB 3.