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Cloning an SSD for a Music Streamer

Greetings all,

 

I have a Cocktail Audio X-45 music streamer with a 2TB internal SATA SSD. I have now run out of space for adding music and plan to replace it with a 4TB or 6TB Internal or External SATA SSD.

What is the best/most precise method for cloning my music database from one SSD to the other? Do I need a software program, SATA cable or other mechanism to accomplish this? Is it possible that I need to connect them through my computer?

Full Dislcoure: I am not a Computer audio user. I have a stand-alone 2 channel system. Although, I am moderately computer literate.

Any guidance offered would be most appreciated.

Thanks & Cheers,

Steve

stevenyc
fuzztone's avatar
fuzztone
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If you clone a 2T to a 4T it will only use 2T.

I would just copy, overnight. Otherwise uses too many.steps.

 

designsfx
793 posts
 

Assuming the cocktail streamer doesn’t have some obscure formatting requirement it should be pretty straightforward. I’ve done this with Naim gear in the past- format the new drive and copy the contents of the previous drive onto the new one.

What does the streamer’s documentation say?

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deadhead1000
714 posts
 

Agree with @fuzztone , but  ​​​​​​@designsfx makes a good point, many systems use a version of the Unix operating systems to format data as it's a much cheaper license then the Microsoft format of data. Ask Cocktail, they will tell you. If it is a Unix version, have a computer store do it for you. Although you can do it yourself, unless you are very good with computers (moderate isn't good enough, sorry to say) and the right software, it's not worth your time or effort.

Just FYI, I am a retired CIO, so I am very familiar with the process converting Unix data to another format. 

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