SSD for playing audio - good idea or bad?

[Chupa Chupa]

I have a hard-wired whole home A/V system and use a 2009 Mac Mini to stream my music (mostly ALAC) through it via a regular A/V receiver. Currently my music is on an external FW400 drive but the hard drive is getting up in age so I want to clone it to fresh media before something bad happens.

Since SSDs have come down in price I was thinking of using one of those instead of a hard drive. My thought - less heat production in a somewhat confined space. My current ext drive can get piping hot.

So is this a decent idea or is there something about SSDs that would make this a potential disaster?

 

[maturola]

No a bad idea, nothing that would make it a disaster, but IMO completely unnecessary, using an SSD for audio playback is like using a Xenon Quad core processor for playing minesweeper.

 

[EvilC5]

No a bad idea, nothing that would make it a disaster, but IMO completely unnecessary, using an SSD for audio playback is like using a Xenon Quad core processor for playing minesweeper.

I like that analogy, very true. I would say overkill.

add a 1TB internal to the mini probably for much less. my mini sits in my stereo rack, and its pretty warm in there and have never had any issues.