Moved music onto SSD

Suggs wrote: Chris Firth wrote: I am wondering about RF with the cable acting as an Ariel, I have read of a few people using media converters to change the network links to fiber optic for all but a short link at either end. TP Link produce a couple of lo cost media converters. Its on my list of things to play with. I have a 30 metre run of Cat 6 linking my NAS to my server and have just ordered the TP Link convertors and a 30m fibre optic cable to replace this set up. Hopefully all should arrive within a week or so and I'll let you know if the changes are audible to me. There is some thinking which says that there should be an improvement, but that it is caused by rejection of electrical noise generated from the NAS setup rather then the Cat cable acting as an aerial.

I didn't type what was quoted - your quote should be attributed to ServerBaboon.

The LAN conversion to fibre and back smells a lot like audiophile thinking.
There's no consideration for the conversion switching, and there's no consideration for the switching noise of the SMPS at each converter.
Then there's the network latency the devices will add ...

I'd be surprised to hear that it makes a difference, but I'm not closing the door on the possibility.

There is the cost and reliability to consider.
You've gone from a single connection hop using a medium that is maintenance free if it's left alone (I've never had to repair a cable or outlet that was kept away from human intervention), to one where you've added four potential breakdown points (2 x SMPS and 2 x converters).

Reliability is always underrated and never considered until something's broken.
There's a lot to be said for reliability.

Chris Firth wrote: I didn't type what was quoted - your quote should be attributed to ServerBaboon. The LAN conversion to fibre and back smells a lot like audiophile thinking. There's no consideration for the conversion switching, and there's no consideration for the switching noise of the SMPS at each converter. Then there's the network latency the devices will add ... I'd be surprised to hear that it makes a difference, but I'm not closing the door on the possibility. There is the cost and reliability to consider. You've gone from a single connection hop using a medium that is maintenance free if it's left alone (I've never had to repair a cable or outlet that was kept away from human intervention), to one where you've added four potential breakdown points (2 x SMPS and 2 x converters).

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The hard disk the music had been on started to play up a couple of weeks ago. I did the obvious maintenance work and concluded it was simply worn out. It was the hard disk from a PC I got 5-6 years ago and became the storage and scratch disk when I bought an SSD-based PC last year. It has now been replaced by a new 2TB hard disk and I will repeat the HD vs SSD experiment over Christmas.