Not very exiting, but I decided to post here to show anyone owning a Uniti Core just how easy it is to replaced the internal storage in the event of either a disk failure or the need for increased storage capacity.
My Core is 5 years old & was installed by my dealer as I was totally new to ripping/streaming etc. He used a spare 4 year old SanDisk 1TB SSD I had, which had started life as my operating drive in my PC & was bottom of the range at the time due to the huge cost of SSD’s. It was about £300 in 2015 compared to £140 for the double capacity & higher performance of the Samsung 9 years later.
I was about a hundred or so CD’s & downloads short of filling the SanDisk so decided to replace it in good time. It has taken me 34 years to nearly fill the disk so I think another TB of storage will see me out!
I did not watch my dealer fit the original drive so I was very careful in fitting the replacement, taking a very leisurely 10 minutes. It was so simple that I could easily half the time if I had to do it again.
I plugged the Core back into the system &, using the Naim app on my phone, formatted the new drive as requested & then plugged my USB back-up drive into the front socket & set the app to ‘Restore Music’ which started immediately.
Restoring my 16,000 or so tracks took just under 8 hours & I assume that I could have played tracks on my Nova whilst the restore was continuing but did not want to tempt fate & therefore listened to some vinyl & internet radio (after going out & mowing the lawns first!).
To be honest, the whole process couldn’t have been easier & I was both surprised & impressed that it went without a hitch at all.
I wish I could tell you that the modern, better SSD has improved the SQ but, of course it has made no difference at all! All I have achieved is to ‘future proof’ the system. All I may have to do sometime in the future is to replace my 1TB back-up disk with a larger capacity one but that will, of course be no trouble.
The moral of this story is that you shouldn’t be worried at all if you ever need to increase your Cores’ storage capacity…provided you have a back-up disk which you obviously will have. Won’t you?