maximum external HDD supported by DENON HD2500

[Grahame Case]

anyone know what the maximum permissible size for an external HDD for the denon HD2500 is? and is it possible to daisychain further drives through a USB hub?

so say have 2 2TB drives on 1 USB hub

[Tom]

The Denon will only read up to 50,000 tracks per hard drive, no matter how big the HD will be.

[Grahame Case]

The Denon will only read up to 50,000 tracks per hard drive, no matter how big the HD will be.

how lame

how many hard drvies can you have attached at once Tom?

[Tom]

how lame

how many hard drvies can you have attached at once Tom?

4 + a keyboard if I am correct.? If so thats 200,000 tracks which is more than plenty. lol

Also dont forget you can change the internal hard drive up to 160gb but this will void your warranty.

[Excalibur]

anyone know what the maximum permissible size for an external HDD for the denon HD2500 is? and is it possible to daisychain further drives through a USB hub?

so say have 2 2TB drives on 1 USB hub

Short answer, no. Long answer, why in the name of all that's holy do you need 4Tb of storage? WAV files?
My non travelling, stays at home, Master is 500Gb, and with 16,000 songs on at 320Kbps has only used 130Gb of storage.

I'm not that computer savvy, but wouldn't drives that size be slower to search?

Edit. Must type faster.

[Penfold42]

how lame

.....50,000 is plenty....how much music do you want to play....

[Grahame Case]

cheers, looking to go digital mid february - once i have enough cash for produb etc.


answered many questions!


i'm intending to rip in WAV format about 40-50mb per track

[Penfold42]

i'm intending to rip in WAV format about 40-50mb per track

Personally I wouldn't do it WAV...but that's just me.

[Grahame Case]

been reading around, lots of people recommending WAV over mp3 because it is cleaner. i'm an MP3 fan myself, but might be swayed to use wav because storage is so cheap.

[Jiggles]

The difference in quality is not really that much really.