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Which external SSD for music streaming?

My new music streamer has a USB socket to connect an external Solid State Drive. I am thinking of getting one with 2 or 4 TB storage capacity to store my whole CD collection on it. What I don't know is how fast such an SSD needs to be. I was thinking of a Crucial X6 (up to 800 MB/s), or X9 (up to 1050MB/s). Or is any SSD fast enough to stream music smoothly? Thanks

 

stievus
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audphile1
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So what did you end up getting?

As to external SSD…
I use a 4TB Samsung QVO SSD in my Aurender N200 and it has the following specs…works great

 

Read Speed ‎560 Megabytes Per Second
Write Speed ‎530 megabits_per_second

 

Amazon has an external Samsung T7 Shield that reads at 1.05GB/s. and writes at 1000 mb/s with 2TB capacity for $163 that’s pretty good!

 

stievus OP
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That sounds good, I will check that. So that will be fast enough I guess. A Metronome DSS is on its way. French high-end company. I got a demo for a good price. On paper it has everything I need :-)

stievus OP
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Maybe I better get 4tb to be on the safe side.

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