June 2022 - Inexpensive Core Device Recommendations?

[dhusky]

FWIW, I suspect this is one of the more authoritative posts on the subject:

Is there really that much of an improvement having the Core database on an SSD?

Startup time is usually a lot slower, as are database updates after installing a software update. Importing new content is much slower. Applying edits to the database, especially larger operations like bulk editing or changing library settings can be miserable. Re-identification or re-scan of files is slower. Background metadata updates are much slower. Many of these operations result not only in the operations taking much longer, but also general slowness that effects Roon as a whole while the…