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Hi - do you have instructions on which scrws to remove to get to the hard drive? I beleive the fan must be removed as well and there are hidden screws from what insee. Thank you in advance.
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There are no hidden screws.
There are four screws and two wire clips that need to be removed to pull the HDD holder/frame out. Then a few (don’t remember how many) that hold the HDD in that frame. They are obvious. Install your SSD in the frame and then reinstall the frame back into the Sony. 2 wire clips and 4 screws. Put the top back on, plug it in. Ignore any warnings. Go to setup and format the internal HDD. You should then be ready to start the painstakingly slow file transfer process. It has taken me over a week to transfer my buddy’s large collection (2tbs) using Windows via Ethernet.
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There is a Micron 2TB SSD drive on Amazon today for $319.00.
Sweet deal! |
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ProjectMan-
Thanks for the Micron Tip. Just installed one last night on the laptop server as the 500gb SSD I installed a year ago was almost full. Seems to be booting faster than the Samsung EVO.
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A magnetized driver can help but I think you need to be careful with them around the electronics. Glad you were successful!
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On the Mac, I noticed an improvement in sound quality, most likely for the reasons cited by the other poster. I think you understate the improvement in file transfer speed. You were transferring from HDD to SSD, so the lion's share of your time was spent by the HDD. You'll be in for a pleasant surprise when you back up your SSD to another SSD. Which brings me to the most important point in favor of SSD... HDD fail a lot more often. This alone is worth the price of the SSD.
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SSD upgrade for Sony HAP-Z1ES
I used to own this unit and loved the ease of use and the upconverted DSD sound. If Sony had gone with Tidal or Qobuz instead of Spotify, I would have kept this unit. The most time consuming issue with the unit is transferring the files to the HD. SSD should help with that process as well as the indexing of the data. But once that is done, I have a hard time understanding how the SSD can affect the actual sound. As I understand it, the data is cached so the transfer speed should not matter. Call me confused. [emoji53]
Last edited by nicoff; 03-04-2019 at 05:17 PM. |
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