Questions about use of combination of Stream 1 and 3

[Bart1]

Hi,

I have a Naim system in 3 rooms in my house. I Want to change the streamers to Innuos system and using following combination Stream 1 with power supply(study) and Stream 3 (main room).

I have a few questions:
Is there a difference in using a 8TB SSD in the Stream 1 or Stream 3 concerning performance, reading speed, audio quality,…?
Is this SSD a reliable SSD for the Streamseries? Samsung 9100 PRO 8 TB SSD (MZ-VAP8T0BW, PCIe Gen 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0) or do you recommand an other 8TB SSD?
Is it possible to swap the SSD, with music, from the Stream 1 to Stream 3?
I want to start with a Stream 1 with a performance DAC and the power supply. When budget is avaliable I want to buy as main streamer/DAC a Stream 3 with phoenix DAC.
Can I have multiroom with a Zenmini in combination with a Stream 1 and Stream 3?

With regards,

Bart

 

[DanCollier]

Hi Bart,

Regarding the SSDs used, we typically use the WD Red SN700 for any drive up to 4TB and Lexar for 8TB drives. The Samsung drive you mentioned will work just fine. However, a Gen 5 SSD is quite overkill for music playback, While Gen 5 drives are faster, they also tend to be noisier and consume more power. Our systems are capped at Gen 3 speeds to keep noise and power usage to a minimum for the best possible sound quality. This approach is consistent across our entire range.
https://innuos.com/kb/what-m-2-nvme-ssds-to-use/

You cannot move an SSD from one system to another retaining your music library, when you enter a drive into a new system it will first format it. If you were to upgrade to a new Innuos system from, you'll need to restore a backup. Heres a guide on system migration - https://innuos.com/kb/system-migration-transferring-innuos-systems/

Yes, you can use multiple Innuos systems together, you have one system as your main server in Innuos standalone mode, and other systems you run as Endpoints, then via the playbar you simply swap between the zones. See here a guide on multiroom - https://innuos.com/kb/multiroom-audio/

 

[Bart1]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the reply.

This morning I asked my fotodealer for a quote for a SSD Lexar 4th Gen 8TB SSD NVMe M.2
Price is 999 euro.

I suppose I can use this SSD on a Stream 1 or 3?

Regards,

Bart

 

[DanCollier]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the reply.

This morning I asked my fotodealer for a quote for a SSD Lexar 4th Gen 8TB SSD NVMe M.2
Price is 999 euro.

I suppose I can use this SSD on a Stream 1 or 3?

Regards,

Bart

Hi,

Yes that should work fine.

 

[Bart1]

You wrote that Gen 5 drives are faster, they also tend to be noisier.

Do you hear the noise? Has it an impact on the quality of the music? Do you hear it when you play the music?

 

[DanCollier]

You wrote that Gen 5 drives are faster, they also tend to be noisier.

Do you hear the noise? Has it an impact on the quality of the music? Do you hear it when you play the music?

If you were running them to full spec on a Gen5 compatible motherboard, they would be drawing more power, which in turns generates more system noise. Something we aim to keep as low as possible.
The drive would not run at these speeds on our motherboards so would not be an issue, my suggestion was more that these SSDs are very expensive and overkill for what is required.