Recommended SSD Drives

Do you think (according to 3mm thickness specs), this one will fit inside A6?
https://www.axagon.eu/en/produkty/clr-m2l3
And do i need to remove brand sticker from ssd before mounting thermal pad and heatsink?

 

Hi I think this is the one hope so I have ordered it

 

4TB SSD just installed, recognised by A6 no problem, formatted to NTFS, free space 3.73 TB, will free more space in windows, works like charm.
There's not any chance to install heatsink + thermal pad on it (even if it's 2mm thick).
I think, the SSD cover is from aluminum so is some kind of heatsink too.
We'll see how will be in the future.

 

For 3mm space you need to push that ring aside.

 

yea i know, it's not about ring. Thermal pad wich come with heatsink is pretty thick too, so no way to fit.

 

I'm running my Crucial P3 without heatsink without any issues. The SSD controllers in general mostly only really heat up when reading/writing large chunks of data at high rates. Once the data is on there and and only read for streaming especially with a pci-e 3.0 ssd heat shouldn't be an issue.

 

I use my SSD like internal storage for my big music collection and i think there will be no problem at all.
Currently i transfer music from my external HDD and all work flawlessly.

 

I used one of these with zero issues, Crucial P3 Plus 4TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD.

 

Hi. Have a question.
I just installed a Crucial SSD into my A6. My fast figures have it formatted in exFAT and luckily the A6 recognised it.
But then upon the next reboot , I notice A6 auto populate the SSD with folders.Folders like DCIM, Pictures etc.

1. Is this normal?
2. If I am to delete all those folders, will it appear again?….lol. I know I can always try it but a bit hesitant as I don’t have Computers to format the SSD if A6 chose not to recognise it after that.

Thanks

 

Can confirm it does this. No need for all that but it happens (=Android shit).

 

Lol....so it's normal. If I am to delete those folders, will Mr Android recreate it again.?

 

Yes i dos I have deleted it a few times but it still returns

 

Lol...OK. Guess will live with it.

 

It's an Android thingy. It happens on all other Android boxes I owned (not that many, 3 maybe).

 

No it is not. It does not do this on Zidoo boxes. Only the Android and Lost Items dirs are created there.

 

It did on my Z9X, all 11 disks. These boxes are the only Androids in my home, we're on Apple ecosystem.

 

Will it be different if it is formatted as exFat or NTFS

 

No

@ammar11
And no it does not create all those Android standard smart-phone dirs on HDD's connected to a Zidoo Player. Just a few.

 

I can now confirm that the 2Tb Kingston PCIe 4.0 drive works OK. I pre-formatted it NTFS and pre-loaded about 1.3Tb of music files. The A6 recognised it immediately and after a period of scanning all is well.

 

I have loaded a Kingston 2Tb PCIe 4.0 drive and it was recognised by the A6 and I formatted it with fat32 and loaded around 24,000 music files to it via the NAS over the network and so far it’s good…