Hello. I am buying a Nucleus Plus in the next couple of months, let’s say Christmas.
I plan on buying without the internal storage and installing the drive I am currently using for this purpose in my Mac mini Roon Core.
I know I have to off load the music, reformat the drive, then repopulate the music once I’ve set up the Nucleus Plus. My question is the viability of using the drive, it’s a 2.5" 7mm Seagate FireCuda…this is it:
That should be absolutely fine. I bought a Nucleus several months ago and installed a Samsung SSD (860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III), formatted it, and started copying flac files over the network share. Everything works perfectly!
Oh, sorry. I didn’t even notice your drive is a hybrid. Interesting question! But I don’t know the answer. You can always just try it. Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
Samsung SSD 870 is perfect for music - fast, large capacity and “cheap”. Optimized for reading, with some limitation on writing (hence don’t use this kind of SSD for Windows swap-file ;))