What's a 2x400gb HDX worth??

I will give you 15 pounds. Cash waiting.

That's got the bidding started at least.

It may be worth more to you than to someone else.

How much music have you yourself ripped onto it?  If you have a lot of cd's that you ripped to .wav on it, and you decide to get a NAS or other server rather than use the HDX, you will have to either re-rip or do some sort of transfer/conversion to the NAS such that the NDS can see and use the metadata.

There is a thread currently running in the Streaming Audio forum that touches on this.  If you want to batch convert to .flac you can probably do that and then re-tag, etc etc. but if you want to keep what you ripped in .wav format it may not be quite so straightforward.  Depends on your comfort with playing with the music database you've created on the HDX.

Bart, it's my threat, those very valid points are part of my thinking.

OK, I'm letting it run. For now...

Keep the HDX. By all means off load the music files to a NAS, managed by the HDX, if you want to consolidate all your music onto one (portable) device... but keep the HDX. It's a great piece of kit, fits in beautifully with the NDS, does what it says on the tin, and if your NDS ever has to visit Salisbury, you have a fall back in the HDX (not quite as good as the NDS, but a lot better than nothing!  ).

And to answer your question... 2,200 GBP*  (give or take a few hundred).

* that's not an offer btw, I already have one.

Seconded.  Based on US prices, you may be lucky to get 1/2 what you paid for it (especially if it doesn't have the PCI and RAM upgrade).

I cannot imagine that it would fetch even very close half of original retail, as there are substantial upgrades needed to bring it current   The current system which allows the customer to save hi def and other music files directly to the internal drive and thus not need other storage (nas) for that is a real game-changer for all the Naim servers imho.  That feature makes the servers much more useful (well to me anyway).

Thanks bart and rj, that was the kind of figure and issues I had in mind. I am coming round to your views on this.

To further complicate things, last night the drive started being silly, closing as soon as it was opened and needing to be opened a few times to stay open. I can live with that, as I've ripped my collection, but I'd have to get it sorted before I sold it.

Anyone know what a new drive for a HDX costs? 

If you can get 1500 quid for it, take the money and run.

You have to be aware that the HDX, other than "traditional" Naim components, is life-style product, the benefits of which become obsoletey as time passes and technology evolves.

Oh, why exactly did you want to sell it ?  ..... see what I mean?

You can't argue with cash, but if you're not desperate for money (after the depreciation hit) or rack space, don't mend it. It's a good server, it's a potentially useful back up source should the need arise and it's not a bad CD player. I wouldn't buy one to go with the NDS but I've had my HDX for years and it doesn't owe me anything. So it's staying. It's a good basis for getting good sound into other rooms (the next logical step) and I could even take it out of the rack and put it somewhere else on the network.

+1 Harry, you make some excellent points.

+ 2 Harry,

What's a 2X400Gb HDX worth?

Priceless..............IMHO 

Still not sure what an NDS would add to my HDX + DAC..........but still researching.

Regards,

Dave.

Depends on a lot of things not least ears. pat that, my summation is "lots". It's not bigger, bolder, better... It's just "right". And a previously installed HDX in the system helps to make matters very logical and straightforward. 

Something I have retained the HDX for is playlists. You can do it in Nstream but it's illogical and clunky.

+3 - thanks Harry.

I have decided to keep it as a server- the cost tied up in it is not really much when you consider the hassle of the alternatives.

I love my HDX nDac 555 PS combi.  I like knowing I own the CD ! G

Harry, if you don't mind, could you write just a little how you do this.  Do you use both nStream and nServe?  I ask because I will soon be using my uServe as a server only to an on-order NDS and have not sorted in my mind where nStream vs nServe will be used.

If I make a playlist on the HDX, which I can do from nServe, the front screen/Flash interface or DTC, it is displayed in nStream under All Music - Playlists. It's straightforward enough to create and add to a playlist in nStream but you have to go through a rather strange navigation system to get to it. Playlists created on the HDX have a different location in nStream's navigation to those created in nStream. 

In the first instance this gave me two groups of playlists and no way of displaying them in nStream as a single collection. I quickly defaulted to playlists created in nServe or on the HDX because they (to my way of thinking) reside in a more logical location when you use nServe to access them.

It's a personal preference, nothing more.