I think you are correct there. FAT32 can’t handle today’s large storage volumes.
It’s good up to 2 TB.
OK - I think I’m going to bite the bullet. I’m planning to order a Western Digital My Passport Portable SSD 1TB. Unless anyone has a better suggestion? (Or a reason why I shouldn’t buy the above!)
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I would buy Samsung rather than Western Digital. Indeed I did buy Samsung.
Is the Samsung T7 ok?
Yes. Also the cheaper T5 is also good.
Hmhh, have you tried writing Naim-support with the question? (Before buying new hardware?)
In general USB sticks and USB “external drives” should be very similar, but Windows may treat them a bit differently in partitioning, actually. However, I agree, when the USB-access shows the content, partitioning/file system should not be a problem.
How many files do you have on the drive? Naim states, 20k files/tracks are supported. Maybe you have more, and the server mode runs out of memory to index them, or something like this?
Does anybody else have experience with this limit?
(I have my files on an older 0.5TB external USB mini-SSD; it’s more than 100GByte, but only about 10k tracks.)
With regard to file systems, I can assure, that NTFS and exFAT are working; the latter was added via firmware update 3.4. (And there’s this configuration management issue, that people writing release notes should tell the people on the product presentation web pages, to update the supported features every now and then. 
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exFAT is nice in “modern” environments (e.g. Win10, recent macOS versions, …) since it’s supported cross-platform out of the box. (But not on old(er) platforms…)
I actually never noticed HFS before, though I’m using Macs - I should try it sometime.
PS: Don’t bother with FAT32, unless you have old equipment really needing it.
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Any drive should work, SSD, spinning hard drive, memory stick or SD card. It’s not something you should need to agonise over or throw money at.
Hello everyone. I hope you all had a good Christmas.
Here is the updated situation: a 1tb Samsung T5 ssd arrived today. I have loaded most of my FLAC files onto it - and it has worked! I did it in stages. First a few files, then another chunk and so on. It now has the best part of 500gb of FLAC files on it - and it’s still working. It all appears as a server and all the artwork shows up as I had hoped. I think it is still processing as things like genre don’t work yet.
If everything looks good in the morning I shall add my ALAC files and I’ll be done. I have no explanation for why this has worked - but I am delighted that it has. Thank you all for your suggestions and support.
If anyone else is setting up a Nova (or Star or Atom) I am obviously no expert but I have now been through the process and will be glad to answer questions.
Happy new year.
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Ok - there IS one more thing… When I look at the list of artists in a few cases the wrong image has been assigned to the artist. For example Alanis Morrisette has been given an image of Adele. The albums themselves still have the correct images though. Is there any way of re-linking (if that’s a word!) the artist to a correct image?
I believe it’s possible to set artist artwork in DBpoweramp. Perhaps you need to edit the files there, although I don’t know if Naim kit is capable of viewing that particular metadata field as it’s pretty basic and in most cases this field is left blank.
Hi Chris. Virtually all my files were ripped using dbPoweramp and the metadata was set (correctly) there. The wrongly assigned images seem to have occurred during the setup process within the Nova. There are only a few so it isn’t terminal. But the ocd/nerd in me is slightly stressed by it!
All my CDs are ripped by a Naim ripper which doesn’t add an artist image at all, so you’re ahead of the game there!
If you’re a real metadata junkie maybe you should try Roon.
In the app there is IIRC an option to delete the image cache and Rescan, maybe this helps
Hmmm… that sounds quite promising. I’ll have a look, thanks.
Now that I am back home: Settings > Other settings > Clear image cache. And there is also Rebuild Music Database below it, as well as Reset App. With some luck, one of them may help
Hmmm… that looks just a little bit scary! Clearing the image data will also clear the 99% of images which are already just fine. I’ll keep this as a backup plan. (My fear being that if I delete ALL the images the same thing might happen again.)
I think the first thing I’ll try is deleting the offending artists and then reloading them. I can only see about a dozen that are wrong. But thanks for the suggestion - much appreciated.
There used to be a Clear UPnP Cache button which I occasionally used as it seemed to sort out this type of issue where Clear Image Cache didn’t, despite seeming like a more obvious solution. This option is now included in Reset App along with other stuff you may prefer not to do as it resets the app to default settings. Maybe worth a try though.
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Sure you can try, but the cache got the pictures from the file embeddings anyways, so re-reading them does most likely not hurt. And IF it picks up wrong pictures on every scan, then this is a bug that will keep happening anyway