Beomaster 5 Hd upgrade to Samsung EVO SSD

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ethuijs
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Posted January 2, 2020 at 15:54 GMT
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Dear Gerard,

How did you clone the Crucilal MX500?

And does it still works fine and fast? No issues?

GE
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gerard
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Posted January 2, 2020 at 19:26 GMT
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Hi ethuijs,

unfortunately NO.

My project with the MX500 was very special as I wanted to do it all on the BM5.

Let’s make the story short:

- Cloning on the BM5 is possible without any PC, but since the BM5 service tool is available, there’s even someone selling it on ebay, it is much faster to use the service tool then buying clonestations and repartioning the disc.

- to the MX500, I never got it to work properly, the problem is the boot. When waking up from standby the BM5 mostly did not see the SSD and I had to switch the BM5 On and Off over and over again until one boot went to 100%. It was so frustrating that I even did not use the BS5 anymore.

- 😁😁😁 Now I have used a 1TB Sandisk ULTRA 3D SSD 😁😁😁 and it works great !!!!🤩🤩🤩

I used the service tool to clone the original HDD (which had no music on it)

It’s running for one month now and has had no problem at all, showing the cover-art or radiostation logos is as fast as a flash !!!

Even if you already bought a MX500, forget about it!! Buy a ULTRA 3D as long as they still exist as new product. Or take an other one with the same controller.

you may read my experience with the controller here:

/forum/imported-unmapped/beomaster5-replace-hdd#post-2259307

and here:

/forum/imported-unmapped/beomaster-5-and-ssd

here you have a listing of SSDs with the name of their controllers:

http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html
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CooperS (archived2)
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Posted January 3, 2020 at 11:15 GMT
#2259746

Maybe I was just lucky but my Beomaster 5 works perfectly well on a daily basis using a cloned 1TB Crucial MX300 for more than three years now, no booting- or compatibility issues whatsoever. I have no experience with the MX500 vs the MX300 but it may well be that there is a HW compatibility issue keeping in mind the very outdated hard- and software (Windows XP embedded..) so I would stick to the MX300 as the system is not equipped to benefit from a more recent SSD hardware. I have not increased the size of the disk (my Beomaster 5 was running on a 1TB HDD) and this seems to be a common source of problems described in this forum.

Good luck, Robert🙂

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beolion (archived2)
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Posted January 3, 2020 at 16:29 GMT
#2259747
CooperS wrote:

Maybe I was just lucky but my Beomaster 5 works perfectly well on a daily basis using a cloned 1TB Crucial MX300 for more than three years now, no booting- or compatibility issues whatsoever. I have not increased the size of the disk (my Beomaster 5 was running on a 1TB HDD)

Same for me. And my system is on all the time.
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gerard
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Posted January 4, 2020 at 08:18 GMT
#2259748
MX300 and MX500 have different controller chips.

MX300 has the same controller ass the ULTRA 3D SSD from Sandisk.

I couldn’t source a new MX300 but the ULTRA 3D may still be found new.
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wantoniak (archived2)
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Posted January 4, 2020 at 10:41 GMT
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MX300 1Tb works for sure, I have it for 3-4 years and never had one single problem (like what I experienced with Samsung or other drives ). The issue maybe with cloning - I have used EASEUS free cloning software, it has few options, as far as cloning method is concerned, I do not remember exactly what option/method I used, but it worked on two system with MX300 500GB and 1Tb drives.

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oskarax
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Posted June 1, 2020 at 19:39 GMT
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Hi! I have a 500gb Beomaster 5 and I want to do the SSD upgrade. I have read all the pages in this thread and there is two SSDs that is being mentioned as the right ones. MX300 and MX500. But they doesn't seem to be able to buy today. What other 500gb SSD will work for me?

 

Thanks!

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CooperS (archived2)
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Posted June 2, 2020 at 13:11 GMT
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according to another entry in this blog, the Sandisk 3D Ultra 500 uses the same controller as the Crucial MX300 but I have not tried. This product still seems to be available. Please let us know whether this is successful. best, Robert

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hfinette
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Posted June 3, 2020 at 20:48 GMT
#2259752

Hello, i will get a SunDisk ultra 3d 1TB tomorrow and i will clone it with the B&O software tool. I understand it so that i have to replace the original HDD with the SSD and then boot up with the b&o tool and then clone the entire HDD, is that the right way ??

Thanks for any tips

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hfinette
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Posted June 3, 2020 at 20:49 GMT
#2259753

Hello, i will get a SunDisk ultra 3d 1TB tomorrow and i will clone it with the B&O software tool. I understand it so that i have to replace the original HDD with the SSD and then boot up with the b&o tool and then clone the entire HDD, is that the right way ??

Thanks for any tips

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