"So, I ask again.
I have about 6TB of music on a external hard drive. Can this hard drive be accessed/ utilized with any of the Aurender or Lumin units?"
A bit late for Ozzy maybe; but as I have been researching these digital players, they seem to handle attached drives differently. In the Lumin, the attached drive can only be browsed via your folders, as it does not index the music into its own database. If you want that (because you have full metadata on your music files), you need to run a NAS into the Lumin, then it uses UpnP to provide full search by metadata. Aurender does index attached drives, so their app will let you do full metadata searches with just any attached USB device, the NAS would be just an option. So for people who just folder browse... they both work. For people who want full metadata search, they are different.
I have about 6TB of music on a external hard drive. Can this hard drive be accessed/ utilized with any of the Aurender or Lumin units?"
A bit late for Ozzy maybe; but as I have been researching these digital players, they seem to handle attached drives differently. In the Lumin, the attached drive can only be browsed via your folders, as it does not index the music into its own database. If you want that (because you have full metadata on your music files), you need to run a NAS into the Lumin, then it uses UpnP to provide full search by metadata. Aurender does index attached drives, so their app will let you do full metadata searches with just any attached USB device, the NAS would be just an option. So for people who just folder browse... they both work. For people who want full metadata search, they are different.