Can anyone advise on a cheap standalone Roon server option? I’m thinking either a NUC or a mini pc but open to whatever suggestions people think is best. I am not an intensive user. Have around 30Gb of music (3000 albums) and don’t intend to add massively to it. Only have one end point pair of spea…

It may or may not suit your needs. Personally I wouldn’t go under recommend specs. Also some of these don’t come with dual channel ram but a single stick which can hinder performances best to check this. Also if you plan to have these in listening area I would not recommend them as the fans are quit…

Thanks. That’s really helpful.

[image] zanimos: whether I should be running with Rock? Rock is for use with only the listed supported hardware. Otherwise is it considered tinkering. You can try it, but, will not be officially supported. Or, you can load Windows or Ubuntu on it, run RoonServer and know that it is officia…

[image] Rugby: Or, you can load Windows or Ubuntu on it, run RoonServer and know that it is officially supported. Which is what I did.

Nobody to date seems to have commented on the mini PC that the OP found on amazon. The Intel N100 is a 12th gen 4-core processor with a turbo speed of 3.4GHz supporting up to 16GByte of memory - which sounds OK (but not exiting) but I have a few reservations: I can’t easily find the base frequenc…

[image] zanimos: [image] ipeverywhere: time to upgrade any of your existing machines? yes this is something Ive been pondering. One of those situations where my work machine is good but can’t use that for Roon and personal machines are getting a bit old but still doing ok for most uses. S…

For my low end requirements Roon Server is running without a flaw on cheap hardware. See link: [image] Roon Server / Rock on low-cost hardware - good experience Tinkering For a few weeks now the Roon Server in my home runs on a low-cost Mini PC, the BMAX B2 Pro with an In…

I run my Roon ROCK on an old Lenovo x220 (i5). It works absolutely flawlessly. I just bought a 2tb internal SSD for the music to be stored on. Cost me £60 maybe to setup. I had the laptop already, but you can get old i5 Lenovo x220, x230, x240 etc. for super super cheap on eBay. Mine sits almost …

Currently switched to a cheap Geekom mini it11, 11 Series i7 processor, m2 ssd and 16gb ram for £349. Runs Roon fantastically well and way faster than the series 7 i7 I was using and doesn’t break a sweat upsampling . It comes with windows 11 which I deleted and installed Dietpi instead. Didn’t try…

[image] Wade_Oram: I think, with a local library of 3000 albums, I might be inclined to see if I could find a NUC i5. Something like NUC11PAHi5 on Amazon . As has been pointed out above, A second hand NUC may also be a possibility. Your mini PC concerns are overblown. And the official NUC pu…

Advice on a (really) cheap Roon Server

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Roony_groli (Groli) March 10, 2024, 7:33pm 15

For my low end requirements Roon Server is running without a flaw on cheap hardware. See link: