Updating an old HDX

Posted by: andrew jameson on 08 September 2011

I have one of the first HDX's (with NDAC and 555PS) with 2 x 400gb drives and i'm nearly out of space (have 540 ish rips and only room for 30-40 more) - Any idea what my potential HD upgrade options are ... can one go to 2 x 1TB for example

 

Just curious as to how i might get this 3 year old player up to as near as poss latest spec

 

Apologies if this has been discussed a thousand times - I don't spend as much time here as i used to

 

Thanks

 

Andy

Posted on: 11 September 2011 by Pepe68
Fingers crossed that your system will run stable in the future. Without network and/or NAS running you will have no access to your music until the problem is solved. I need an network/PC independent solution for my music, that is why I choose the HDX.
Posted on: 11 September 2011 by Tog
Originally Posted by Pepe68:
Fingers crossed that your system will run stable in the future. Without network and/or NAS running you will have no access to your music until the problem is solved. I need an network/PC independent solution for my music, that is why I choose the HDX.

I understand your point but it is logically flawed - by the same token since your music and player are  situated in one device if it experiences a problem you are without music - neither solution is invulnerable to breakdown except with the NAS/Server approach it is probably cheaper to fix once there is a problem.

 

Tog

Posted on: 11 September 2011 by Hutton1969
I chose the HDX as it is a one box solution until that is the hard drive capacity is used after which it is a simple to add a NAS. However, the older HDX has 2 hard drives one of which is used to back up the other. I cannot understand the reason for this as I would have thought it makes more sense to back up music files to a separate location rather than a drive in the same box. Would it not be possible to allocate the second HDX drive as extra storage capacity instead of backup?

Regards
Hutton
Posted on: 11 September 2011 by Klout10
Originally Posted by Hutton1969:
Would it not be possible to allocate the second HDX drive as extra storage capacity instead of backup?

This makes sense to me, I guess most of us will have all the orginal CD's of the albums ripped to their HDX still lying somewhere. It takes only an awful lot of time to rip all these albums again and fix things like cover art etc ...

 

Regards,

Michel

Posted on: 11 September 2011 by Harry

With HDDs and SSD failure it's not a question of if. Although I would bet more money against early SSD failure generally. NAS box and included HDDs I can handle for maintenance, backup and disaster recovery. When my HDX goes down I don't want to have to depend on the factory to recover my ripped music.

 

The one box solution which doesn't depend on network connectivity is not the HDX. This is not what it was designed for or sold as. Streaming 16/44 WAV over WiFi is also not what the HDX was made or sold for. In fact it is discouraged - for obvious reasons. We can of course please ourselves and do as we like. But that's not Naim's problem.  Not fit for purpose is an issue. Not bought for purpose isn't. 

Posted on: 11 September 2011 by Hutton1969
I don't know if Harry was referring to my last post which referred to the HDX as a "one box solution", if so he overlooked that I qualified this by stating that it is until the drives are full but it is a simple task to add a NAS, which is clearly what the HDX is designed for. That does not alter the fact that the early HDX has 2 drives and it seems a shame they cannot be configured to individual requirements.

Regards
Hutton
Posted on: 18 September 2011 by sktn77a

There is no reason the two drives couldn't be used in tandem to give 2x400 or 2x500Gb of storage.  However, the current software isn't set up to do this and it's unlikely NAIM will update it to do so.  I agree there is a small number of us that would/do prefer to keep all of the music stored locally on the HDX, but I think we are in the minority.  In my case, 500Gb should more than see me and my 350 CD collection into the grave!

Posted on: 19 September 2011 by Hutton1969
Originally Posted by sktn77a:

There is no reason the two drives couldn't be used in tandem to give 2x400 or 2x500Gb of storage.  However, the current software isn't set up to do this and it's unlikely NAIM will update it to do so.  I agree there is a small number of us that would/do prefer to keep all of the music stored locally on the HDX, but I think we are in the minority.  In my case, 500Gb should more than see me and my 350 CD collection into the grave!


I fully agree.  With my cd collection backed up on a separate drive, the second drive in the HDX is redundant.  The software could be updated to reconfigure the hard drives to be used in tandem as you suggest. Would someone from Naim care to comment?

 

Regards

 

Hutton

Posted on: 19 September 2011 by Richard Dane

Hutton,

 

I'm afraid I have no idea if this is possible.  Probably worthwhile asking Naim themselves though.  Why not send them an e-mail?

Posted on: 19 September 2011 by Hutton1969
Originally Posted by Richard Dane:

Hutton,

 

I'm afraid I have no idea if this is possible.  Probably worthwhile asking Naim themselves though.  Why not send them an e-mail?


Richard

 

I will give it a whirl!

 

Regards

Hutton