I am a new user having just bought a 1 year subscription. I have set up my Roon library on my Synology NAS. The Library is in Root/music and my music files are in Root/music/Music I have approx 127,540 music tracks on 6,837 albums as identified on my Plex server which is also on my NAS in the root …

We’d need a bit more details from you to judge your situation. Where is your roon server located? Also on the NAS or somewhere else? Keep in mind the setup guide. Are your music files on the NAS on HDDs or SSDs? Is your roon library on HDDs or SSDs? The library shall only be on SSD since it needs…

And if you run Roon Server from your NAS, the NAS also needs a sufficient amount of RAM available for a snappy experience. More than 100k tracks is considered to be a big library that requires a substantial amount of resources. A NAS might be not the best platform to run Roon Server for such a big l…

It is normal, because Roon needs to identify your music when it’s first added, but for a library of this size, Roon would prefer 16gb of RAM, and many Synology NASs allow for that or more. What model are you using? Additionally, Roon expects that your Roon database be on an SSD for performance purpo…

Hi Thanks for the reply. NAS model is DS916+. It’s all HDD and the Roon Library is on the NAS. There is a USB slot on the NAS. Could I attach an SSD to the USB and put the library on that? Fred

As mentioned its an 8gb ram ds916+ which has a 1.6 processor.

I personally don’t see this working satisfactory (needs more RAM and faster CPU for that library size IMHO) but maybe other users with similar hardware and library size can comment on this. See also: [image] Larger Libraries, Multiroom, and DSP. - Roon Hardware Specification... - Other…

Thanks. Ive looked online and it seems that having a small dedicated PC with an SSD, like a GEEKCOM Sir 12, left on continually and just for Roon might me the way to go. What size SSD is needed for a library of 150,000 tracks?

Roon Labs recommends a 256GB model here: [image] Recommended Server Hardware - Roon Hardware Specification Recommendations Roon Server is the heart of your library. The hardware needed for your server machine can vary based on a number of factors, such as library size, number of simulta…

Yeah, that is a little underpowered and outdated. I have a library about half that size and use a DiskStation 1522+ with 16GB of RAM (and an SSD for the Roon database) and it works splendidly (using only about 5GB of RAM on average), but once you get that large, I think you need to consider somethin…

Thanks - so just to be clear where is the SSD in relation to the NAS - i.e. is it in the NAS - attached by USB or a standalone PC - like a Mini PC. That is something I’ve been thinking about recently. Fred

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