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

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!

 

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 :-)

Congrats on the new streamer!

I would get 4tb if you plan on ripping more CDs to it and you are at the top of capacity for 2TB. Personally I wouldn’t rip anything available on streaming services in high resolution. Rare stuff yes makes sense. Good luck!

To play CD music you need at least 0.18 MB/s.  Any SSD will do.  Buy extra one for backup.