Very first Search after power-on takes ages

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Can you try it in one of the ports near the power connector, they are USB 3.0 apparently so that will be considerably faster.

Do you also have a SATA drive laying around that you can test using it internal to the device?

If you read the screenshot from this post, the Denon dev recommends an internal drive for anything more than 500gb.

Slow loading from hard drive

There is no excuse for any harddrive to not work with Denon hardware. If the hardware is that picky, they shouldn’t have released their hardware pre-maturely, just for us to find the problems ourselves. I use a 10 year old HDD with VDJ and Serato and it works perfectly. I asked a Denon rep (see below) on what harddrive I should get due to an astronomical amount of problems with my sc5000’s and Engine DJ database. BOTH my T5 and T7 have slow loading. That’s not a harddrive problem, that’s a Deno…

I can’t speak for Denon but bear in mind Pioneer advise people not to use anything more than something like 64gb flash drives in their CDJs.