Could a 1 Tb Hard Drive be plugged into a USB on the HDX

Nope.

The USB ports on HDX / UnitiServe are really designed for ‘memory sticks’ only.

Ok thanks, Adam, I’ll use NAS instead. Presumably, once set up, this will be integrated by the HDX and be just as accessible as what’s on it’s hard drive?

(Reading the manual last night, so forum help is still most welcome!)

That is correct. HDX will ‘integrate’ all networked drives and make the music just as accessible just as if it was on it’s own internal drive.

And you can setup the hdx to backup all ripped cd automatically to the nas.

however there are usb sticks with 1 Tb memory.  I was using before a 500mo usb stick with my  unitserve.  

French Rooster posted:

however there are usb sticks with 1 Tb memory.  I was using before a 500mo usb stick with my  unitserve.  

And which was better? the usb stick or the nas?

I have 6 Tb Intenso FAT 32 drive connected to HDX with USB .  Plug & Play - never had any problems.

jcl posted:

I have 6 Tb Intenso FAT 32 drive connected to HDX with USB .  Plug & Play - never had any problems.

Interesting

Do you use it for back up / storage or also for listen to the files stored on it?

How is the navigation of an external USB device via the Naim app?

Thanks

M.

Matteo posted:

French Rooster posted:

however there are usb sticks with 1 Tb memory.  I was using before a 500mo usb stick with my  unitserve.  

And which was better? the usb stick or the nas?

i have no nas.  Just unitserve with optional linear ps.  It serves me as ripper and nas.

My back ups are on pc and i keep my 400cds .     The only problem with the attached memory stick is that it was running hot.

Matteo posted:

jcl posted:

I have 6 Tb Intenso FAT 32 drive connected to HDX with USB .  Plug & Play - never had any problems.

Interesting

Do you use it for back up / storage or also for listen to the files stored on it?

How is the navigation of an external USB device via the Naim app?

Thanks

M.

The drive is for extended HDX 2 Tb storage and for listening additional files on it. I have a nas for backing things up. Navigation via n-Serve & Naim apps is exactly the same. The external albums etc are all intergrated like with using the download folder. Additional option is to navigate between downloads, external drive and server.  I believe HDX only connects with FAT 32 format.

Thanks FR and JCL

I abandoned streaming from NAS (with an ND5 XS) years ago and listen 95% to vinyls, because I do not want complications.

The new ND5 XS 2 is tempting though.

I just wonder if, as well as Tidal, listening to files stored on a USB device (connected to the streamer) is worst than ripped files on a NAS.

Regards

M.

I'm doing some comparisons of Spotify Premium vs. Tidal Hi-Fi and the latter seems much better in terms of SQ.

Compared to 6/7 years ago, the Tidal's catalogue appears to be much bigger (I found at least 80% of my Spotify album on Tidal).

I think that I could live only with Tidal.

But I had approx 400 albums stored on an external HDD, of which 200/250 are in HD format or that I can't find on Tidal/Spotify.

M.

For me the NAS sounded better than the USB drive

Matteo posted:

Thanks FR and JCL

I abandoned streaming from NAS (with an ND5 XS) years ago and listen 95% to vinyls, because I do not want complications.

The new ND5 XS 2 is tempting though.

I just wonder if, as well as Tidal, listening to files stored on a USB device (connected to the streamer) is worst than ripped files on a NAS.

Regards

M.

tidal, usb on streamer, and files on nas sound nearly the same, specially with the new streamers units.   But sometimes Tidal offer average quality mastered albums, so the sound is inferior in that case.

For high rez format, you can’t stream with Tidal, so only buy and download albums, that you can store where you want.