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Old 02-26-2016, 01:17 AM
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Default Aurender N100H [Hard Drive Upgrade]

I own the Aurender N100H and love it. In fact, I am considering the Aurender W20, their flagship server and player. I purchased the N100H because it was cheap. After a year of owning it, I want to now jump in and replace both internal drives with Samsung SSD Pro. One drive is a SSD and the other is a 1TB spinner. I plan to do what I did when I upgraded the McIntosh MB100.

This evening I sent Aurender a support inquiry to replace the 1TB library drive with a 1TB SSD. I am not worried about warranty but if they have any additional tips beyond the obvious, it certainly doesn't hurt to ask.

I will loop back to this thread and let you all know what they say. Otherwise, I will bit for bit duplicate the spinner to the SSD.

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Old 02-26-2016, 01:22 AM
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Aurender has excellent remote support, great product...
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Old 02-26-2016, 08:18 PM
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Aurender has excellent remote support, great product...
They are responsive. I received an email a few hours after my inquiry and they gave me a fairly boiler plate response about updating. No big deal. I only made the inquiry to find out if there was something unique I should know. I'm going to replace the drive by doing a bit for bit copy. Ordering the Samsung 1TB SSD shortly.
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Old 02-26-2016, 11:49 PM
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They are responsive. I received an email a few hours after my inquiry and they gave me a fairly boiler plate response about updating. No big deal. I only made the inquiry to find out if there was something unique I should know. I'm going to replace the drive by doing a bit for bit copy. Ordering the Samsung 1TB SSD shortly.
Good luck. Post some pics of the inside of the unit if you can...

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Old 02-27-2016, 11:45 PM
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They are responsive. I received an email a few hours after my inquiry and they gave me a fairly boiler plate response about updating. No big deal. I only made the inquiry to find out if there was something unique I should know. I'm going to replace the drive by doing a bit for bit copy. Ordering the Samsung 1TB SSD shortly.
Hope it goes smoothly. As a former owner of the Olive 06HD (still have the 04HD), I upgraded the drive in the 06 (to go to a quieter 2.5" notebook drive from the stock 3.5" drive).

Olive provided their OS ( a 'restore' file) via a download and also a had built-in routine to back up the music library and associated database (metadata, playlists, etc.)
I tried cloning first, but this was unsuccessful due to some odd partitions used by Olive. The combination of a restore (=load) of the OS onto the new drive, followed by a load of the library backup was successful.

So, does Aurender provide support to restore their OS directly? Considering an Aurender ; an alternate is the Lumin.

Reason: if the hard drive fails or becomes corrupted, cloning is no longer an option.
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if the hard drive fails or becomes corrupted, cloning is no longer an option.
I will find out. Mirror the Aurender library drive and see if it works. I will have as a recovery, the source drive.


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Old 02-28-2016, 12:46 AM
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Best of luck, David, with your customization. It sounds like a great idea. I am surprised a company of Aurender's caliber doesn't offer SSD storage as an option. With the Antipodes DX music server, you can now get up to 6TB of SSD storage as an option. Any music files selected for play that are stored in SSD will continuously feed into RAM on the fly before playing. Aurender instead uses a very large RAM in conjunction with HDD storage but I prefer the Antipodes approach. I own neither. Still using a stock Mac Mini for awhile longer but have been doing some research.

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Aurender do offer SSD as an option. I have seen folks on other forums have ordered them as such, and I have too.
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Aurender do offer SSD as an option. I have seen folks on other forums have ordered them as such, and I have too.
When I purchased my model, it was not an option, unfortunately.
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Aurender do offer SSD as an option. I have seen folks on other forums have ordered them as such, and I have too.
I can't find the SSD storage option on Aurender's website or anywhere else. Could you post a link?

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