i found this article on google

Unless you want to experiment, the WD10EURX model that Michael mentioned is definitely the easiest way to go. It was the drive that was originally shipped by B&O inside the 1TB BeoMaster 5 and therefore compatibility is pretty much guaranteed.

Martin.

B&O ask for the harddisk 1Tb 310 euro!!!! exc. labour

This is RIDICULOUS!!!!

 

HI,

As far as i remember i think i got this disk i use recommended in this forum

i dont know if you can use any 1 TB HD

Michael

Michael wrote:

i dont know if you can use any 1 TB HD

In theory, yes, although there's no guarantee and there are other considerations aside from interface / chipset compatibility - such as the thermal and acoustic properties of a drive. There are probably 15000rpm server drives that would work, and they are very fast, but I'd not want one in the corner of my lounge as they are noisy as hell!

At least with the WDxxEURX range you know you shouldn't have too many problems as that's what B&O used - I use the 2TB version of this drive (the WD20EURX) in my BM5.

Martin.

 

Edit: I should probably point out though that 2TB is the maximum supported drive size in XP, so you can't utilise the 3TB or 4TB drives that are now available in this range.

Hi Martin

The only remaining is probably the recommended 500 GB and 1 TB SSD drive that can be used. These are just too expensive to "try" out ;-)

Thanks for your input though.

beolion wrote:

Hi Martin

The only remaining is probably the recommended 500 GB and 1 TB SSD drive that can be used. These are just too expensive to "try" out ;-)

Thanks for your input though.

The Crucial MX100 512GB SSD drive works well according to earlier posts in this thread. I have tried a few larger SSDs when I've had access to them (like you say, they are too expensive to buy to simply try out) but haven't found any that work reliably in the BM5.

For me the upgrade (from 1TB to 2TB) was about extra capacity, and a 512GB SSD just wouldn't be anywhere near large enough for my music collection. I have considered installing the MX100 drive and then storing my music on my NAS (in fact it is stored there anyway, as well as on my BM5) but I'm not sure if the faster SSD will gain me anything given the music files would then need to be accessed over the network...

Martin.

 

 

 

Ny BM5 has been worked a couple of years with the Crusial SSD. I have all my music on NAS and it's working very well

The system gets more responsive with an ssd but downside is the lack of storage so you need music on NAS. For me steaming from the NAS is no problem. 

Happy holidays 

/Michael

Hi Martin

Do you know if a Crucial MX100 will "act" similar to the new model MX300?

Leo

beolion wrote:

Do you know if a Crucial MX100 will "act" similar to the new model MX300?

So far, the MX100 seems to be the only SSD that has been found to work reliably in the BM5.

Martin.