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Which external SSD for music streaming?

My new music streamer has a USB socket to connect an external Solid State Drive. I am thinking of getting one with 2 or 4 TB storage capacity to store my whole CD collection on it. What I don't know is how fast such an SSD needs to be. I was thinking of a Crucial X6 (up to 800 MB/s), or X9 (up to 1050MB/s). Or is any SSD fast enough to stream music smoothly? Thanks

 

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So what did you end up getting?

As to external SSD…
I use a 4TB Samsung QVO SSD in my Aurender N200 and it has the following specs…works great

 

Read Speed ‎560 Megabytes Per Second
Write Speed ‎530 megabits_per_second

 

Amazon has an external Samsung T7 Shield that reads at 1.05GB/s. and writes at 1000 mb/s with 2TB capacity for $163 that’s pretty good!

 

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Congrats on the new streamer!

I would get 4tb if you plan on ripping more CDs to it and you are at the top of capacity for 2TB. Personally I wouldn’t rip anything available on streaming services in high resolution. Rare stuff yes makes sense. Good luck!

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@blisshifi good info thx!

so my QVO is fine. Should last a while. As with any drive, having a backup is essential. I have a WD HDD that has an image of what’s on my QVO. So keep this un mind as well @stievus to back it up once you load it. 

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Access speed. HDD is slower. You can easily start with HDD then get SSD later, copy everything over to it and set the HDD aside as a backup. 

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