Hi,
Looking for some expertise I don’t have here.
I am currently running ROCK on a NUC in which I have a 2TB Samsung SATA drive installed for music storage. If I purchased a Nucleus One and installed that SATA drive, would I need to erase and reformat the drive which would obviously involve re-importing the music files which I would rather not have to do?
Hoping that the existing SATA drive would function in a plug and play manner.
Thanks for your help.
Bob
Unfortunately I believe it would need to be reformated for the Nucleus One before it could be used if installed as an internal drive.
Not tried it myself but in theory you could install the drive in an external USB drive case and see it as an external storage drive.
That would obviate the reformat and keep your music.
I have moved "Internal drives"between ROCK and Nucleus devices but have never been forced to reinitialise the drive?
I think @Bob_Worley will be just fine, with one caveat though:
Does the Nucleus One support SSD SATA drives? Or is it limited to m.2 sticks?
No, it’ll be fine:
6.4 cm SATA SSD or HDD up to 15mm drive height (drive not included)
If desired, an external enclosure will be an option. (if however in a klunky way)
I’m not sure that this is correct. Whilst all new drives have to be formatted after fitting in a RoonOS device (ROCK or Nucleus), I was under the impression that once formatted as an internal drive by RoonOS, it could be moved to another RoonOS device without further formatting irrespective of whether that device was another ROCK install or a Nucleus.
Edit: Ah. @Mikael_Ollars beat me to it.
Nope - doesn’t need to be reformatted. I’ve moved an internal SSD from my old ROCK/NUC to my new ROCK/NUC without the need to reformat. My music files were preserved and restoring a backup from the old system meant I carried on without missing a beat…
The „no“ votes have it. (It’s just that it uses the Linux ext4fs file system, and this is used by both ROCK and Nucleus because it’s the same RoonOS)
Why would you move from a NUC with ROCK to a Nucleus One though? It’s the same OS and server software and chances are that the NUC is faster (depending on the model maybe, but most should be)
Thanks all.
No immediate need to make any changes. The NUC was setup in 2022 and in anticipation of Roon 3.0 or NUC device failure I wanted to know what the possibilities were. My goal is to minimize downtime when the NUC needs replacement.
I’d rather listen to music than fiddle with tech stuff
Lol…I stand corrected.
All good to go it seems and you learn something new every day.
Thanks to everybody who responded.
I pulled the NUC down from its network perch, hooked it up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and fired that bad boy up. I didn’t remember that I had set it up with UEFI when I did the original installation. Also made a power change to have it restart after power outages. Insured that it was optimized per Roon’s setup recommendations. Reinstalled Roon and restored a backup from this morning. All good and ready for Roon 3.0 when it appears.
Hah! I love it. This made my night… oh crap it’s morning now… time to get some sleep! 