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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
stievus OP
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@benanders Perfect! Got a great deal on a Crucial MX500 SSD, so I will go for that one. Thanks again.

stievus OP
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Except for noise and reliability is there any further advantage of using an external ssd instead of hdd for streaming music?

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audphile1
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Access speed. HDD is slower. You can easily start with HDD then get SSD later, copy everything over to it and set the HDD aside as a backup. 

stievus OP
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Makes sense, thanks!

stievus OP
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One afterthought, will the difference in access speed be noticeable? Or is this just a measurement thing?

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