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Email me and we'll get that straightened out.- Jim
Not a SSD ?Bk
No. The Salkstream III doesn’t come with an SSD.
Upgraded mine to a SSD, it's a bit faster now. Sounds the same...
I use a SSD for the OS and a 4TB spindle drive for the data. Boots fast and has plent of capacity for music and movies. Separating the data from the OS is convient when you need to upgrade or replace the OS and not affect the data.-Ron
SSDs are fairly cheap and if I were to do it again I would use a pair of SSDs configured as a mirrored pair (RAID 1) for the OS. Then I would use a large HDD, size depending on your needs, for the data. Backup your data drive regularly. The mirrored pair provides redundancy. For those interested, I built my streamer in an HDPLEX HD 5 case. The system is totally silent due to the passive copper cooling bars. In addition to the system and data drives I also have a DVD drive installed. I run VortexBox that has a web interface to manage the system. It is based on Fedora. The beauty of this system is that you can drop your CD or DVD in the drive and it automatically rips it to your data drive. Backup is as easy as plugging in a portable USB HDD and click the Backup icon. Since it is a Linux system, I also installed Plex server and Roon server to handle video and music respectively. Been running this for years and I find it to be very reliable and low maintenance. Don’t know why VortexBox doesn’t get the love that other streaming apps get.-Ron
Seems pretty basic to me. What's a server?
I also ha e a few Raspberry Pi units with DAC hats running Roon endpoints so I can stream to different locations in the house