Anybody using HD2500 with USB3?

[Corabar Steve]

Any problems?

Does the Denon read the drive OK?


I've got a Seagate USB 3 drive & although the DDJMM software communicates with the drive, the Player doesn't want to know.

[Excalibur]

Can't comment on the Denon, but my Numark HDMIX doesn't seem to like USB3. I shuffled drives round so that it could have an USB 2 instead, but the biggest improvement came by taking my own advice.

POWER EVERYTHING.

Even though the drive works fine on laptops, hard drive controllers seem to struggle to give it sufficient power.

Since the Numark can accept decent sized hard drives, I was able to consign this rig to backup, simply by using the internal drive instead. I don't think this would work for the Denon though, unless it's had a severe firmware update.

[Corabar Steve]

I think that's probably the case with the Denon too Peter. One of my existing HDs is playing up, so tried wit one of the USB3 drives we have for the Cortex & it doesn't want to know. Cortex plays from it no problem.

[Excalibur]

I think that's probably the case with the Denon too Peter. Cortex plays from it no problem.

A thought.
In the good old days, when this forum was filled with questions about hard drives, hubs, brands to use and avoid, powered or unpowered, we also used to ask:

" What file system is it " ? I'm clutching at straws here, but I remember when Denons wouldn't read NTFS, but Cortex did. I also remember you finding a utility to convert large NTFS drives to Denon's beloved FAT32.

I don't suppose, by the faintest of remote chances, your Denon is on old software, and won't read NTFS?

Like I said, clutching at straws.

[DazzyD]

I'm not sure you're clutching at straws at all, Peter. That's a pretty good suggestion from where I'm standing!

Just last week in my computer magazine this topic came up. Apparently, Android devices can use external hard drives with a special adaptor cable but they too can only read FAT32-formatted drives but Windows premoninately formats in NTFS. So drive formatting format is still a current subject and could well be the case here, too!

[Corabar Steve]

A thought.
In the good old days, when this forum was filled with questions about hard drives, hubs, brands to use and avoid, powered or unpowered, we also used to ask:

" What file system is it " ? I'm clutching at straws here, but I remember when Denons wouldn't read NTFS, but Cortex did. I also remember you finding a utility to convert large NTFS drives to Denon's beloved FAT32.

I don't suppose, by the faintest of remote chances, your Denon is on old software, and won't read NTFS?

Like I said, clutching at straws.

FAT32 drives, so that's not it.


Warning to anyone wanting to format NTFS to FAT32, don't use Seagate DiscWizard.

2 completely d drives that windows won't recognise later.....

[Corabar Steve]

I think that the issue may be that although USB3 is backward compatible with USB2 devices, nobody has told the HD2500s this.