30 GB SSD too small ? - You can upgrade it !

[MRedZac]

For those, who are asking themselves if 30 GB of SSD Drive might be a bit small on the long term, I can announce, that it is possible to upgrade to a bigger SSD Drive.

Since a second internal HDD cannot be accessed anymore after updating to Version 1.5.0, you can gain more harddisk space by mounting a bigger ssd instead of the original one.

Here´s what you have to do:

1. Take away the original SSD from the Kronos and place your bigger SSD instead. If the new SSD is also faster, you´ll gain some small amount of speed later on while booting up the Kronos and for saving files to it. The original SSD has 180 MB/s read and 80 MB/s write, so everything faster than this will work for sure. (SATA II, 3G, 300 MB/s - SATA III is not compatible !!)
2. Connect a USB-CD-Rom Drive to the Kronos and turn on the Device with the first DVD inside the CD-Rom, which was delivered with it.
3. You´ll be prompted, that the new SSD is not formatted for Kronos, and you have to press enter to approve a full format and new installation...
4. Once this is done and both DVDs have been installed sucessfully, it´s time for the first bootup. While this first booting, you´ll be prompted to authorize the new SSD. Just follow the steps on screen and open on internet www.korg.com/kronos. There you have to register with serial number of your device and also the public id, which at this time will be displayed on your touch screen...
5. After your registration, you´ll be able to download the authorisation file to a usb stick, which has to be connected to your Kronos afterwards.
6. Finally, after the authorisation is done, you have to restart Kronos again and here we go !
7. Once it has booted, you should confirm in Disk mode, media information, that it has properly recognized the size of your new SSD and then you can update the Kronos to which version you would like to have it...


If you are thinking about to do this on your own, once your original SSD will be full, please take into consideration, that it is easier to start by now from the scratch with an empty, newly formatted SSD directly, instead of having to copy afterwards about 15 GB of your Data from one drive to another one - remember: It has Linux - Format, so it is pretty difficult to copy your content through PC to a new SSD and you cannot just connect it by external USB-Adapter to Kronos, since Kronos only reads FAT-Drives through USB...

Cheers, merry christmas and a happy new year !

[apex]

thx

[Dniss]

Take away the original SSD from the Kronos and place your bigger SSD instead. If the new SSD is also faster, you´ll gain some small amount of speed later on while booting up the Kronos and for saving files to it. The original SSD has 180 MB/s read and 80 MB/s write, so everything faster than this will work for sure.

Funny, I thought the bottleneck wasn't the SSD.

[jimknopf]

Sounds interesting.
That way you don't have to bother about any amount of additional sound libraries, samples and midi and audio files.
Be aware though that the data management of the Kronos might have limits (as occured in the limited subfolders case).

Have you already checked if bootup time really speeds up a liitle bit?

[MRedZac]

Sounds interesting.

Have you already checked if bootup time really speeds up a liitle bit?

Yes, my new SSD has 220 MB/s read and 190 MB/s write... It´s maybe something like 20 seconds less for booting now and writing speed seems to be twice as fast.

[jimknopf]

Cool.

[Bruce Lychee]

Sounds interesting.

Have you already checked if bootup time really speeds up a liitle bit?

Yes, my new SSD has 220 MB/s read and 190 MB/s write... It´s maybe something like 20 seconds less for booting now and writing speed seems to be twice as fast.

Will it accept a 6g bus SSD or does it have to be 3g?

[Jon Lord]

Sounds interesting.

Have you already checked if bootup time really speeds up a liitle bit?

Yes, my new SSD has 220 MB/s read and 190 MB/s write... It´s maybe something like 20 seconds less for booting now and writing speed seems to be twice as fast.

Video please

[MRedZac]

Sounds interesting.

Have you already checked if bootup time really speeds up a liitle bit?

Yes, my new SSD has 220 MB/s read and 190 MB/s write... It´s maybe something like 20 seconds less for booting now and writing speed seems to be twice as fast.

Will it accept a 6g bus SSD or does it have to be 3g?

Honestly, I don´t know. Just test it... Mine is a 3g modell. But as 6g is usually downwards compatible, it should not be a problem to use it, even you might not gain its full speed... Taken into consideration, that the atom based intel board is an actual one, I don´t see a problem, why it should not be able to handle 6g up to its capabilities...

[Bruce Lychee]

Yes, my new SSD has 220 MB/s read and 190 MB/s write... It´s maybe something like 20 seconds less for booting now and writing speed seems to be twice as fast.

Will it accept a 6g bus SSD or does it have to be 3g?

Honestly, I don´t know. Just test it... Mine is a 3g modell. But as 6g is usually downwards compatible, it should not be a problem to use it, even you might not gain its full speed... Taken into consideration, that the atom based intel board is an actual one, I don´t see a problem, why it should not be able to handle 6g up to its capabilities...

I had a major incompatibility problem with a 6g SSD on a 3g bus recently. My Mac simply would not let me use it and I had to go with a 3G. I would probably just buy a 3g for this application anyway if I decided I wanted a larger SSD.

[robbie50]

GREAT!!!!!




robbbie

[jeebustrain]

I imagine pulling the SSD out and copying a block level image to a new drive using dd would be a lot faster. Then just resize the partitions to match the new disk capacity. Plus, you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of reauthorizing the Kronos. That is, unless it does some sort of checksum on the partition size.

[MRedZac]

I imagine pulling the SSD out and copying a block level image to a new drive using dd would be a lot faster. Then just resize the partitions to match the new disk capacity. Plus, you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of reauthorizing the Kronos. That is, unless it does some sort of checksum on the partition size.

I tried this first, and I was not able to come up with a working replacement SSD afterwards. - Anyway: Cloning the drive takes longer than the whole process described above, which only took about 15 Minutes in total...

[jamsire]

Sounds pretty darn awesome to me!

[jeebustrain]

I imagine pulling the SSD out and copying a block level image to a new drive using dd would be a lot faster. Then just resize the partitions to match the new disk capacity. Plus, you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of reauthorizing the Kronos. That is, unless it does some sort of checksum on the partition size.

I tried this first, and I was not able to come up with a working replacement SSD afterwards. - Anyway: Cloning the drive takes longer than the whole process described above, which only took about 15 Minutes in total...

interesting - it must do a checksum against the drive itself (maybe involving the device ID/Serial number as part of the authorization process