Innuos - anyone swapped the hard- drive for an SSD unit?

[wHIZZY]

Wondering if anyone has retro fitted an SSD drive to an Innuos machine and if they experienced any issues. Thanks

 

[Hornucopia]

No, but I have one in my iPod now.500 gb capacity.
So far, fine.

 

[mjd]

I believe that they have to back to Innuos for any work on the HD

 

[musicbox]

I replaced the 3TB HD on my 2014 Innuos Zen with a 4TB SSD. No difference performance wise but very usefully its completely mechanically silent now - before I could always hear the drive chuntering away which was sometimes annoying. The MP3 mirror function runs quicker now, as does re-scanning the drive to add new content in LMS.

However, I did this myself then re-installed the Vortexbox package from a public distro, then re-installed my music files from a USB backup drive, all went smoothly.

Everything works fine but its no longer an Innuos Zen, its effectively now my own home-built Vortexbox device and Innuous will not support it now. But It was 6 years old already when I did it so I'm not bothered. Can't believe the prices of Innuos gear nowadays!

 

[Fourlegs]

1) Wondering if anyone has retro fitted an SSD drive to an Innuos machine 2) and if they experienced any issues. Thanks

1) Yes I have. 2) No I didn’t.

but you need to know how to and have the skill or have available the correct disk cloning software (I only found one that can do everything required in the correct way) to create a multi partition disk with FAT32, EXT4 and Linux formatting in the different partitions and to be able to resize the final EXT4 partition at the end of that process. I would not want to encourage you if you do not have the skills so I am wary of posting a DIY set of instructions.

 

[Amber Audio]

1) Yes I have. 2) No I didn’t.

but you need to know how to and have the skill or have available the correct disk cloning software (I only found one that can do everything required in the correct way) to create a multi partition disk with FAT32, EXT4 and Linux formatting in the different partitions and to be able to resize the final EXT4 partition at the end of that process. I would not want to encourage you if you do not have the skills so I am wary of posting a DIY set of instructions.

What model INNUOUS did you do the SSD swap out on? Just curious what the differences are between their old Vortex based ones and the new 2.0 OS models.

 

[Lawrence001]

I haven't but I have reinstalled the latest Vortexbox distro on the original HDD. It's an early Liv Zen though. It works better now. I guess if you preinstalled the same software before switching you'd have a new HDD but I wouldn't like to promise.

 

[It Cost How Much!?!]

Send it to Innuos, it may cost money, but it will work and you have support.

 

[wHIZZY]

Given the difficulties described on this and other forums together with my dubious IT skills, I have decided not to go forward with installing a SSD but thanks to everyone for their input all of which was helpful in the decision making process.

 

[Fourlegs]

What model INNUOUS did you do the SSD swap out on? Just curious what the differences are between their old Vortex based ones and the new 2.0 OS models.

It was a Zen Mk3 with a spinning 1TB HDD. I replaced it with a 4TB SSD. When I did it the Zen was running the old pre 2.0 software and then when 2.0 was released it just updated to that as per normal. I have done it also on a Zen Mini and changed its HDD to a SSD which is now owned by @DomT and I assume is still running without trouble. Just clarify I have only ever done this on my own devices by way being a bit of tinkering. I don’t intend to get into doing this!

 

[Amber Audio]

It was a Zen Mk3 with a spinning 1TB HDD. I replaced it with a 4TB SSD. When I did it the Zen was running the old pre 2.0 software and then when 2.0 was released it just updated to that as per normal. I have done it also on a Zen Mini and changed its HDD to a SSD which is now owned by @DomT and I assume is still running without trouble. Just clarify I have only ever done this on my own devices by way being a bit of tinkering. I don’t intend to get into doing this!

Thanks, just curious, it was being discussed on another forum as to whether it was possible or needed RTB, I work in IT so was wondering what they might have done to lock it down like an EPOS or KIOSK PC to stop a bit of DIY Cloning/Gparted action onto a new disk.

 

[MF 1000]

1) Yes I have. 2) No I didn’t.

but you need to know how to and have the skill or have available the correct disk cloning software (I only found one that can do everything required in the correct way) to create a multi partition disk with FAT32, EXT4 and Linux formatting in the different partitions and to be able to resize the final EXT4 partition at the end of that process. I would not want to encourage you if you do not have the skills so I am wary of posting a DIY set of instructions.

Putting the cd in my transport seems far easier

 

[DomT]

It was a Zen Mk3 with a spinning 1TB HDD. I replaced it with a 4TB SSD. When I did it the Zen was running the old pre 2.0 software and then when 2.0 was released it just updated to that as per normal. I have done it also on a Zen Mini and changed its HDD to a SSD which is now owned by @DomT and I assume is still running without trouble. Just clarify I have only ever done this on my own devices by way being a bit of tinkering. I don’t intend to get into doing this!

Running very well thanks and no issues at all. In fact I am so taken with the sound of the Innuos and the amazing user experience with their new app that I have bought 40 CDs to rip to the hard drive and haven’t really done any streaming.

 

[DomT]

Putting the cd in my transport seems far easier

Well if you mean moving to where your CDs are stored and searching for the title that you want, opening the case, taking the CD out, opening the CD drawer mechanism, placing the CD correctly in the drive, closing the drive and then pressing play, then yes this is far more work than listening to ripped CDs. The ripping can take some time but once done you will save a lot more time afterwards.