Call me nuts but...

HDD are electrically very noisy.

All my music computers only have SSD inside and read music files over the network.

T38.45 posted:

i replaced the disk in my macmini w/ roon with a ssd...it's is so incredible good ...like a new hifi component....what the hell is going on here???

by far the cheapest and best upgrade for years....highly recommended folks! It plays in another league now :-)

Roon and mac os on ssd now,  music on a seperate disk. I can only guess that the old disk disturbs the musical path in a not known manner, maybe more cpu cycles, maybe more internal noise, maybe jitter...but doesn' t matter, this rocks now!!!

Ralf

Ralf, which SSD did you use?

I've been thinking of changing the 1TB hard drive in my Mac Mini with SSD, simply for faster boot-up and less lag when scrolling through large album views, I'm using Audirvana which pre-loads tracks into memory, so possibly less SQ benefit, but might be worth trying anyway.

Samsung 1TB Evo 850

OK , I will be the first to say .....  "You are nuts!"

I find it extremely hard to even contemplate the possibility that a change of hard drive will make any difference whatsoever to sound quality, much in the same way that I find the prospect of using boutique Ethernet cables pointless.

Obviously you, and many others in the case of Ethernet cables, disagree with me.

I may not be open to persuasion on this one, but as a matter of interest, has anyone using a Synology or QNAP NAS moved from conventional SAT HDDs (say WD Reds) to SSDs and noticed a blind bit of difference?  

Hmack posted:

OK , I will be the first to say .....  "You are nuts!"

I find it extremely hard to even contemplate the possibility that a change of hard drive will make any difference whatsoever to sound quality, much in the same way that I find the prospect of using boutique Ethernet cables pointless.

Obviously you, and many others in the case of Ethernet cables, disagree with me.

I may not be open to persuasion on this one, but as a matter of interest, has anyone using a Synology or QNAP NAS moved from conventional SAT HDDs (say WD Reds) to SSDs and noticed a blind bit of difference?  

didn't test that, right now only hdd vs ssd...and ssd sounds better...i remember my Aurender design- they use hdd for music and ssd for playback, maybe it's the same effect here...

In mac the hdd is alongside the rendering electronics. With NAS it is not.