RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case

Posted by willkayakforfood (A) on February 24, 2020 at 09:21:13

In Reply to: RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case posted by Dawnrazor on February 21, 2020 at 10:13:38:

Hello Dawnrazor,

You wrote:

"...all I can tell you is that things sounded much better when I ditched the usb drive and put everything on an sd card."

Interesting. Do you have an internal SSD? If so, would you consider using that as music file storage instead of the SD card?

The mini PC I have currently has just a small internal drive, but it can be expanded up to a 2TB HDD (I'll have to look into it further, but from what I think I understand so far, it seems the expansion possibility is for up to a 2TB spinning HDD, not SSD). I'm currently using a 2TB external SSD--connected via USB--for my music files, and I need something of that size.

I've had this mini PC only a few days, so it's still in its "probationary" period. I'll be waiting to see just how stable/reliable it is before I would consider any new internal drive for it -- of any sort.

I still have to use USB as the output to the DAC, but using an internal drive for the music files would certainly simplify things a bit. Might ultimately mean a different mini PC that could take a 2TB SSD.

One thing I'd really like to keep the same is the silent--fanless--nature of this tiny computer.

I'd be interested to hear from others as well regarding using an internal SSD vs. external USB SSD for music file storage in a machine meant for this dedicated purpose (music "playing" software and sending digital music files to a DAC).

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Topic - Fan-less Windows 10 Mini PC recommendations? - willkayakforfood 23:36:18 02/09/20 (21)

Small, cheap PCs are ideal for music, IMO - Feanor 13:14:24 03/10/20 (1)

I bought this one just today ... - Feanor 09:55:04 03/13/20 (0)

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RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case - willkayakforfood 11:02:52 03/10/20 (1)

RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case - Dawnrazor 12:19:07 03/10/20 (0)

RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case - willkayakforfood 09:21:13 02/24/20 (2)

RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case - Dawnrazor 10:08:08 03/09/20 (1)

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RE: Fan-less Windows 10 Mini PC recommendations? - willkayakforfood 00:10:52 02/19/20 (0)

Here's the one I ordered... - willkayakforfood 19:38:26 02/14/20 (2)

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Nice to see you back. n/t - PAR 14:29:53 02/10/20 (0)

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RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case - willkayakforfood 09:21:13 02/24/20 (2)

RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case - Dawnrazor 10:08:08 03/09/20 (1)

RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case - willkayakforfood 15:34:29 03/12/20 (0)

RE: Intel NUC w Fanless Case

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