Viragored wrote: > My music is on an external USB 2TB hard disc drive, powered directly by > a mains adapter. Same disc, same power supply as when it was plugged in > to the Vortexbox. The Pi has an 'official' power supply, allegedly as > good as they get. The HAT is the only thing connected to the Pi that > draws power. I'd love to have the music on an SSD, but the price in NZ > will have to tumble a lot before I splash out the kind of money the > dealers want at the moment. At today's exchange rate, the known brands > are around GBP350-400 for 2TB M.2, and often more for the bigger boxes - > approaching ten times the price of a hard disc. I've got 2 x SSD in my > PC and enjoy the comparatively fast boot and program load times. > > In the Pi forums, where I understand only some of what I read, there is > comment that the bottleneck could be some chip that does conversion > between USB and SATA with the Pi 3B's on-board chip being a relative > slowcoach. For the moment, going to bed and leaving the Pi to complete a > full scan works for me - and probably will until SSD prices meet my > budget!How many tracks are in your library to take two hours? With 50,000 tracks and MusicIP integration I think mine takes around 45 minutes but a lot of that is importing MusicIP info.
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