Hi, I'm a Roon dealer and have a Nucleus One on the way and I just need to confirm if I can only install a 2.5" SSD vs a 3.5" HDD. All the documentation would seem to say only a 2.5" SSD but your web site images on the product page show a picture of a 3.5" HDD so just want to confirm before I order a drive. Thank you,
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Thanks, I’ll check out the EVO’s and SanDisk options. SSD’s get pricy in the 4TB range but my music library is a little over 3TB so I need a 4TB. I love the idea of having the drive inside the One but would there be any downside to using an external SSD connected to the Nucleus One? I have a Crucial X8 4TB SSD. that I could try.
From what I’ve read, several people have gone that route. It also allows you the option to put Roon DB backups on that drive, too. I believe you can’t have Roon backups on the internal SSD.
I went with the internal EVO, and a small Samsung T7 externally for Roon backups. My music backup is on another system.
Knowing me I’ll end up doing the same with an internal drive and I have a Crucial 256GB SSD that I put in an external enclosure that I’ll use for the backups. I also read that you shouldn’t save the backups to the same drive that is running Roon Core. I have been experimenting with using my ten year old QNAP TS-251 NAS with 8GB of RAM to run the Roon server app and it mostly works but I get a lot of “waiting for the Roon server” messages and then Friday night it refused to connect so I’m glad the Nucleus One is on the way!! Thanks for the help. Happy listening.
For the specific purpose of adding internal storage to a Nucleus One or Titan, the Samsung 870 QVO drives are also a good choice and they are cheaper.
The QVO drives do not cope so well as the EVO drives in applications where they are being continually re-written but in ‘write once read many’ applications - such as music storage on a Nucleus - they are fine.
My external drive is a Melco N1Z. It has a number of advantages, automatic download of Qobuz, extremely good separate USB DAC output!
The data from the Melco is backed up monthly using 2 external SSD drives.
It’s quick and easy to do via the Melco menu. It’s just as easy to play the backup again.
I have a Nucleus One and am using an external SSD as I already had my library on it as well as backed up on 2 HDD’s and a Samsung T7 SSD.
I use the SanDisk 4TB Desk Drive SSD connected to my Nucleus One for playback and backups going to a WD HDD over the Network. Appears to be working well for me.
Thank you for the helpful information about the SSD’s. The One is due to arrive today so I will experiment with my directly connected Crucial external SSD at first vs pointing Roon to the shared music folder on my NAS vs an eventual internal SSD.
I assume that any external drive connected directly to the One would have to be formatted for either NTFS or exFAT?
Apologies in advance if this muddies the OP’s question, but isn’t the SSD on a NUC exclusively used for the Roon software and related non-audio files? And if so, what would the wisdom be in installing a 2 or 4TB internal SDD?
The Nucleus One has an m.2 SSD installed for RoonOS and the Roon software. It also has space and a connector for a second 2.5" drive (which can be either an SSD or HDD) that is used to hold music files. The OP’s question was about this second drive.