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Aurender SSD Upgrades

I've successfully upgraded Aurender N100H and N10s with new larger faster SSD's.  The Aurender N10 typically comes with a 256Gb 940 Evo.  It varies by year of production.  Upgraded mine to 500Gb 860 Pro SSD.  You technically cn go even larger but I'm guessing it's not necessary. The N10 memory is also easily upgradable to 8Gb.

The N100h or any N100 series is more interesting.  While the N10 uses a 2.5inch Sata SSD the N100H uses a MSata on board solution.  Basically MSata laptop SSD's.  Stock it comes with 120Gb but I've done 256Gb and 500Gb upgrades using Samsung MSata drives.

PM me if your interested in upgrading your Aurender SSD
fm540i
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sfseay
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A waste of money to upgrade the internal SSDs in the Aurender.  If you had dropouts it wasn’t from the factory SSD.
fm540i OP
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But it’s my money..plus it’s fun to figure it out. 
wondering56
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DRIVE REPLACEMENT.

I've just done a drive replacement for my N100, and this was my experience:

Backup your music and playlists first!

120GB system/cache drive to 500GB (mSata - 500GB was the best value)

4TB hard drive to 4TB SSD (Samsung Evo - 8TB too expensive for now)

Ideally, you will have a Linux box (I did mine on a low spec Raspberry Pi).

1. Remove the mSata system drive and put it in a mSata to USB enclosure (cheap on Amazon).

2. Assuming you have at least 120GB free space on your Linux box, plug in the USB enclosure and do (all as root) fdisk -l to get the drive ID (typically /dev/sda or /dev/sdb)

3. Find/make a suitable output folder - I used an attached SSD mounted to /media/OneTB

4. Using the dd command, create an image, i.e. dd if=/dev/sda  of=/media/OneTB/N100.img and let this run (can take a couple of hours on a low spec machine)

I did an image rather than a straight copy for saftey and backup, you could if you have both old and new drives connected do a straight copy, being VERY sure you select your original N100 drive as the input (if=)!!!

5. When done, remove the original N100 drive and insert the new mSata drive, and copy the image to it (it might also be /dev/sda or might be /dev/sdb - use fdisk to check): dd if=/media/OneTB/N100.img of=/dev/sda

This might take several hours..

6. When done, install the new mSata drive in the N100, plus the new SSD (no need to format the new SSD)

7. Boot up and ensure the N100 is running ok (note there will be no music drive...yet

8. In conductor, do a full factory restore (wipe music etc.) and this will fix up the new cache drive and initialise the new SSD music drive.

Copy music back as required - various ways - I hade mine on a spare drive on my Mac, then use conductor to restore playlists (if necessary - I did not do this as I wanted to start fresh.

Good luck.

wondering56
4 posts
 

I've also has some fun manually creating playlists for my music collection and then "installing" them if anyone is interested...,

mikhailark
343 posts
 

Did it make background blacker?

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