Do you have a backup of the music on the SSD? If not you need to back that up first then you can do as mikeb suggests. If you haven’t been backing up that drive now is a good time to start (and continue to do so regularly).
You’d be surprised how many people don’t back stuff up either because they simply don’t know any better or they intended to but didn’t get that far or they think they have a good backup but realize the hard way they don’t. I don’t know how many times I’ve had someone tell me they have never backed up their iPhone (with all their photos) because the cloud does it (what happens the day it doesn’t?) or they don’t know if they even have iCloud backup on.
I started in IT in the '80’s, gave up in the '90’s when I realised it mostly consisted of impossible clueless clients who think programming is magic.
I don’t offer advice or explanations re backups these days because it’s usually people don’t want to pay the cost so they end up paying the price. Or is that the other way round?
The disk I’ve been using for a few years must have been formatted in OSX so I’m thinking there must be an option there which I’m looking for at the moment.
Linux supports exFat but I don’t know about ROCK but you should be able to just pull the existing music drive, install the new one, format it from the web GUI and restore your backup to the new drive, right (never used a Nucleus or ROCK setup so I don’t know for sure)?
If you are looking to replace the internal drive. you need to copy all the music off of it to a network location.
Then remove the old drive. install the new drive. Format the new drive. Then copy all the music from the network location back to the newly formatted internal drive.
Couldn’t copy directly from old USB drive to new USB drive via SMB on my Mac Pro 5.1 (Running an older OS). Error -36 (Something in the directory can’t be copied)
Currently looks to be copying using SMB from a Mac Studio. Not sure what that’s about.
I didn’t realize the existing drive was USB (I was thinking internal). In that case couldn’t you just plug both into your mac and copy that way instead of over network?
The current drive wouldn’t mount in the mac (Mac Pro 5.1). I didn’t try with the Mac Studio as it’s in a different location. It’s possible the Mac Pro has issues, it’s 12 years old.
I would have prefered to do it that way though. Although technically I would hope that the data will only move from USB drive to USB drive with the remote Mac Studio managing the transfer.
At the moment I know I can copy a single file but I’m waiting for the preparation of the big copy to finish.