Replace ROCK Internal 1Tb SSD with 2Tb SSD [Method confirmation]

You probably know this but:

  1. Stop the RoonServer software via ROCK GUI when you are moving large amounts of music.
  2. Roon may initially want to see the music that was on the USB drive if you leave it connected. Not sure about that, but you may want to temporarily disable that drive while Roon rescans the completely newly populated 2TB drive.
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OK, that might work.

What won’t work is connecting new drive externally for the copy and then reconnecting internally.

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That’s right. I tried that, it definitely did not work. But that is step 3, not step 1 on the list :slight_smile:

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So, I took the 1Tb SSD out and connected it (in a drive case) to my Mac and it popped up as an ‘extFS 4’ formatted drive, so I could then see all my music on it :+1:
I am currently waiting for Amazon to deliver the new drive, which I will then put in ROCK and use GUI to ‘format’ it.
Do you guys (@xxx , @Rohangis_Mohseni) think I can then take the formatted 2Tb SSD out, also connect to my Mac with the 1Tb SSD and then just copy from 1Tb to 2Tb and then put the ‘full’ 2Tb back in the NUC and fire up Roon and it will then re-scan drive & I will be up??
Thanks

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I don’t know, but I would just try it right now by copying a single file to the 1TB drive, reattach it to ROCK and see if it works. If it does, it would save an enormous amount of time. I synchronize the files to ROCK via the shared folder, and it’s probably the slowest possibility. For adding an album, it’s OK, but for adding my collection of around 1k albums, it took me nearly a day.

Dunno.

Whatever your results are, you should post them for others’ edifications.

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I will try what I’ve suggested when new drive arrives (in next 2-5 hours :wink: ) and post back my results (hopefully success, as it really would save a massive amount of time…)

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No, All newly installed hard drives in a ROCK require ROCK to format them before use.

Ok, I have received my new 2Tb SDD.
I put it on my ROCK NUC, then formatted it with Web GUI.
I then took it out and connected it to my Mac along with the 1Tb SSD and copied everything over from old drive to new drive.
I just now put it back in to NUC & started it up & Roon seems to be happy with it :wink:
All my music, except for what was on the external USB HD is there, so it seems to have worked :+1:
@Rugby, correct. I did that step before then taking new drive back out of NUC & then doing a local copy on my Mac of all music before putting it back.
I will update my list of steps for other users shortly.
(I am now copying the stuff from my external USB HD over network share so Roon rebuilds it’s database with new file locations)

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:+1:. Good to know.

Before I re-list the new steps, I have had some strange issues where certain tracks/albums seem to have been ‘corrupted’ in that the last 10-20 seconds of the track don’t play, Roon just jumps to the next track.
I only realised this as it happened on one of my favourite tracks the I chose to listen to after ‘migration’.
I am going to have a listen to more today (having finished adding other music over network share and letting Roon do it’s analysis overnight)
It might be my fault, as one of the drives seemed to disconnect during first transfer on my Mac (1Tb SSD -> 2Tb SSD), even though I then copied stuff in smaller chunks all over again…).
But, overall, I think it worked :wink:

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I don’t think that the files are “corrupted” in the way you describe. They are files, not streaming media. Therefore, it’s binary: Either the file can be played or it can’t. I rather suspect that your ROCK is maybe having issues with scanning the files and playing them back at the same time. There is another thread where somebody is having a similar issue although his server that runs ROCK is more than capable of doing multiple things at the same time.

And thanks again for the testing! It won’t help me as my files are already on my NUC, but it will probably help others setting up the ROCK core.

So, I’m not sure what the problem was (probably something to do with drive ‘disconnect’), but having copied over the ‘corrupt’ albums (over network share) from old drive to ROCK, they are all fine now :wink:
I will keep the old drive for a while before wiping until I am sure everything is ok from 1st copy.
(will redo steps later, need to do some work now :wink: )

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I guess you copied over all files from the old hd to the new hd, right? So not only the internal storage with the music files.

Will roon keep track of favourites, radio stations, edited metadata, play count etc.? Did you need to use roons backup-functions in any stage?

Hi @sailorck ,
I did copy all my music from old disk to new disk, but you must use the Roon backup/restore to keep all the other bits of data you mention.

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So exactly how do you copy files from internal folder?

I open a network share to make them accessible and then use Windows Explorer or AlwaySync to copy them.

Revisiting this topic as in the mean time I have moved from a ROCK to a Nucleus+ & my library is increasing in size, and even though I have a QNAP NAS I can store music on, I’d like to try & keep it all on an internal SSD, so picked up a 4Tb SSD during Amazon Prime Day a few weeks back, but this is really making me wish that the @Roon would create a decent utility that would allow users to put a new ‘drive’ in to a caddy, plug that in to the Nucleus (Or ROCK) and migrate everything over from current internal drive to the new drive and then just open box & replace new drive! :wink:
One can only wish…

It’s been asked for (but no guarantees that it will make it into Roon OS 2.0)

Thanks @Geoff_Coupe ! I’ve now added a “+1” on there :wink: