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Aurender N100H Mods

The fact that Aurender runs Linux makes changing the system difficult but I have managed the following. 

Convert a 220v unit to 110v for US service and back the other way is relatively easy. A few wiring changes. 

Upgrade boot and SSD music cache from 120GB mSATA to faster and larger 256GB mSATA is possible but not for the novice. 

Upgrading 2TB HD to 4TB now. 2TB units have their 2nd drive pins omitted so to go larger you can’t add a second drive. Need to replace the smaller drive with a larger one.  Needs to be formatted or cloned to conform to Linux. 
fm540i

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fm540i OP
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OK, upgrade to cache successful and upgrade to a 4Tb Baracuda HD completed.  Actual size shown by Aurender 3.6 Tb.  
fm540i OP
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I’d never try it with an N10 but I was fortunate to buy a 220v N100h cheap. There just fancy computers. I knew it contained a dual voltage transformer so adapting it to US voltage was easy. The Linux operating system makes it more difficult to play with boot discs and hard drives but with a little research I was able to clone the boot drive and copy the HD partition to a larger hard drive. 
fm540i OP
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I used a Linux based program to clone the partitions and content.  I believe it was a program called GParted but there are several. I think Clonezilla May also work.  The key is Aurender is running a Linux based system so you need to use a Linux program to clone or a Windows based program but it needs to be able to clone a Linux system/partition.  Mine had three partitions. 
What’s great is it’s easy to test.  If your clone boots up it’s good to go. Sometimes you need to play with cloning parameters.
fm540i OP
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Ok, the input at 220v has 4 wires. The din connector has 7 slots only 4 are actually wired. Slot 1 Black, Slot 7 White and a Bridge wire connecting slots 3 and 5. Correct? Looking from back going left to right on the Din connector. 

Transformer should be Amgis S8/L01-6371

Conversion to 115v. 

Black wire to Slot 3 ( looking from the back left to right)
White wire to Slot 7

The bridge wire is removed.  Only two connections. 
fm540i OP
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It’s been a while, I’ll need to pop the top off of mine. Have a swim meet to go too. Can it wait until later today?
First, confirm your wiring configuration.I remember the 220v version had 4 positions on the input side of the transformer. Going left to right I designate them wire position 1,2,3,4
If I recall there is a wire from the plug going to position 1 and 4. A jumper wire bridges positions 2 and 3
Correct?
fm540i OP
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fm540i OP
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Thanks, I kept my original drive just in case plus maintain a running backup of the data in case I need to change out the drive. 
fm540i OP
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I’ve recently used Disk Genius which is free to down load. Do a sector by sector clone of the original SSD them expand the last sector which is the cache area to use all of the remaining space if your upgrading to a larger SSD. I converted my N10 from a 256gb to a 512gb ssd
fm540i OP
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I’m not sure I understand the question. The 100H uses a laptop HD or similar sized SSD. Either bolts right in to the carrier provided by Aurender. As long as it’s a laptop drive it’s plug and play. 

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