I second what @BlackJack shared.
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I use a Synology 220+ as a spare rock for my Intel NUC 10i7 FNHN2. Every so often, I use the Synology as a ROON server. Never had any problems before. In the Synology, I have 6Gb. RAM and two times 4Tb WD-Red.
Are you willing to contribute to Roon on NAS Experience Index: 2024 - #23 by Thorsten_Heinrich ?
I have been running my Core(Server) on a Synology NAS DS920+ for a couple of years with no issues, I however am running with 20 GB of RAM. Core (Server) needs to be restarted about once a month. Library is 1.25 TB
Me too, Roon runs on 1522+ very nicely.
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Running on terramaster f4-424 pro here… Intel i3 
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What RodS wrote, it just isn’t directed at you. You just got a notification because the link referenced your posting in that thread solely chosen because it is the last one. You do not have to do anything here or in the other thread.
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Ok, thanks for the information.
I have a Synology DS1019+ with the standard 8 GB RAM (factory) and Roon Server doesn’t really tax it all.
This is a Resource Monitor grab when two endpoints are streaming.
One local 24/192 file and a 24/192 TIDAL stream (plus DSM).
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It is to be expected that this is not really putting load on a quad core CPU being well under the official minimum requirements regarding single-core performance. Try a PCM352 conversion to DSD256 or DSD512 instead or apply some DSP on a DSD stream.
If the library is rather small in terms of tracks and there are no such computing-intense operations needed, roon is running surprisingly smooth on these rather lean machines according to my experience. Problems are occurring if library gets bigger and you perform search operations which rely on a single core such as compiling a composition list of a composer (not the text search which is all-core).
@Arindal Good point about the PCM to DSD conversions and DSP.
These and other conditions would likely be a deal breaker for me with my current hardware.
At this point, anything other than rather vanilla streams are not on my radar. It kind of illustrates how little of Roon’s capabilities I currently utilize.
I personally would not see a point in PCM>DSD conversion, but some people take it very serious and they would not be happy with a machine like yours.
The other thing I noticed when still having a lean NAS is that a growing number of problematic albums might slow down the machine at a certain point in time. This is particularly true to classical albums with lots of tracks, credits and references such as opera and oratorio recordings, multi-artist boxsets, compilations and in general unidentified albums with lots of tags.
If your library exceeds a certain threshold, which very much depends on the structure of the library, it gets slower and slower with every album you add. In my case 70,000 tracks was the breaking point so I had to replace the NAS.
There will be a Gen2 asus flashtor nas soon, with ryzen CPU 
looks very promising to run roon with that.
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What is the problem you are having with configuring QNAP. I have several of them, and have no issues.
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It has already been answered above.^
The topic is a bit older, but my question certainly fits here quite well.
Does the choice of hardware (RAM, SSD) with regard to audiophile quality characteristics affect the sound quality if the NAS is only used as a roon core with upsampling and streaming to a network player?
I run roon core on a qnap ts-253 (system on SSD, 16GB RAM, LPSU) and the playback is done on a network player (cambridge Edge NQ). This means that no audio signal is output directly from the NAS (e.g. via USB).
I will soon upgrade to a TS-264, upgrade it with an system SSD and RAM and am considering which components to choose, e.g. industrial grade RAM from Apacer, M.2 Femto SSD from JCAT (overkill and probably rather irrelevant!?).
Can it improve the sound quality?
No, not at all. Certainly not RAM or SSD, as long as they work.
Thank you Boris for the brief yet enlightening answer. I will keep it simple and equip the nas with standard consumer parts.