HDD or SSD

[eatapeach]

Thank you all for your time replying to my post. I will probably invest in a SSD to back up my own music which is currently on my NAS. My plan then is to give the backup to my son to look after so that Its offsite. I listen to music now mainly via Qobuz.

I'm a bit confused about why you would back up to SSD? I assume the NAS is HDD- haven't you got things the wrong way round ie why pay more for something where reliability isn't an issue but cost maybe is?

Like others I've got 2 laptops (work/home) running SSDs with no problem for years but I back up everything to a couple of old school HDDs

[Lawrence001]

It was probably Melco as it was one of their reps that first put the doubt in my mind. The rep did add that they see more SSD’s going into their products than HDD.

That's right I just found the below from a StereoNet review which is what he told me. I got confused, they do use SSDs but they are in the models outside my price range. Well all the models are outside my price range at the new prices!

Music data is written infrequently and is rarely modified, rendering the usual computer SSD lifetime optimisation algorithms as inappropriate, especially as they also tend to impact on data integrity, as they operate in bursts as required. The N1ZS uses purposebuilt SSDs designed especially for audio playback, with a low level and consistent management algorithm that has zero impact on data integrity, but lowers the power noise signature significantly.

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[Paul-H]

Purely a coincidence but my lightly used first SSD drive a Crucial MX300 has started failing the Crucial diagnostics, did a quick sector check and one bad block was reported, don't know how valid a sector check is on SSD's though but Crucisls own software reports a fault.

This drive is 2 years old and used as a boot drive on a machine that is mainly used for internet browsing.

Can't remember the last time a proper Hard Disk failed so not overly impressed with the Crucial at the moment.

[StanleyB]

1. I back up to SSD for speed.
2. My oldest SSD is around 8 years old and still going strong on the laptop that it cam with.
3. I prefer the Samsung EVO range.

[Clive197]

Thanks for the advice guys. I’ve just bought a 500Gb Samsung T5 USB drive. It took 5hrs to load all my home stored music (319Gb).
To check out the results, I plugged the USB into the input of my Aries G1 and compared it to my Synology running MinimServer on WD Red Drives. I found that the USB drive was very slightly louder but SQ was very close to the point that I couldn’t tell a difference.