Briefly using the EVO SSD, boot time was phenomenal. With the Velocirapter, less so.

However, near the capacity of the 500GB OEM unit, the scrolling became slow - especially on covers.

Putting the new HDD in with the SSD hybrid drive makes it all fluid. 95% of SSD as a "quick and dirty" measure but hassle free over that of the EVO SSD.

I found recovering the disk of first boot also helped get over an unspecified start-up error. No problems since.

Did anyone have success with upgrading to a 1TB SSD?

Hi all,

i am thinking about upgrading the harddrive in my beomaster 5 

the problem is i have 1.3 TB music all ripped as flac files 

does anyone know what size of hard dive i can change it to (have a 3 TB i dont use)

the problem is i can't seem to get it to work with my nas server the beomaster 5 crashes and restarts

which is the best harddisk cloner to use 

i have found this one

 https://www.fcomputer.dk/hardware/lagring/harddisk-kabinet/docking/sandberg/usb-3.0-hard-disk-cloner-2.5″-3.5″-delt-2xhdd.html

cheers 

Michael 

Hi Michael

What NAS are you using. I changed my HD to a small SSD 128 MB and the performance is amazing. But now I had to move Music files to NAS and BM5 crashed every time it went out of hibernation or sleep. I found that my NAS provided Music files in several ways and that the BM5 did not like that. Now the only Way my QNAP Nas serves Music is Twonky and it is stable and flauless

regards

Michael

Michael wrote:

i am thinking about upgrading the harddrive in my beomaster 5 

the problem is i have 1.3 TB music all ripped as flac files 

does anyone know what size of hard dive i can change it to (have a 3 TB i dont use)

The largest disk that Windows XP Embedded (which is what the BM5 runs) will support it 2TB. I used a Western digital WD20EURX which is the 2TB version of the 1TB disk that B&O used in the BM5 - others will likely work too but I figured using a disk from the same series would reduce the risk of any compatibility issues.

Michael wrote:

the problem is i can't seem to get it to work with my nas server the beomaster 5 crashes and restarts

Which NAS? and which DNLA software?

Michael wrote:

which is the best harddisk cloner to use 

i have found this one

 https://www.fcomputer.dk/hardware/lagring/harddisk-kabinet/docking/sandberg/usb-3.0-hard-disk-cloner-2.5″-3.5″-delt-2xhdd.html

I can't comment there as I carried out the cloning process using clonezilla live CD on a old PC.

Martin.

Hi Michael,

I use a Qnap TS-251 Turbo nas with 2x3 TB HD and using Twonky server 

i have tried to add 1000 files right now i just added my A dir but i dont how long it will take for about 3000 files to be indexed mots etc etc 

Regards 

Michael 

i have a qnap Ts-251 turbo nas using twonky 

the problem is i dont have a pc today only an old macbook (dont use a pc much these days)

but have you had any problem with the 2 TB HD ?

can you provide me with a idiot proof guide how you dit it ? 

maybe i should try finding an old pc 

Michael 

You have to switch of DNLA in Order to BM5 not crashing!  I have reporter this B&O but dont Think they will do anything abort it

hi again,

not sure exactly you mean ?

michael 

hi again,

not sure exactly what you mean ?

michael