Loaded the latest ROCK yesterday on my new NUC. Bought a 2 TB SSD as implied as “largest possible” in Rock Storage Basics.
I can SMB to the drive via IP as instructed to load the codecs, and my Mac can see it on the network, create folders, copy music to it.
Roon Rock Settings Storage doesn’t list the drive or any of it’s folders as options to select for music storage.
Is there a trick here? Do I need to partition the drive to do this?
thanks in advance.
I believe you install an SSD memory stick for the OS, then you can add a 2nd SSD HD, which is where you store your music.
Yeah, thank you. I see Rock needs it to be a separate drive for the music. Going to buy a smaller second drive for Rock. Appreciate the help.
The answer is NO, ROCK and the Roon library have to have their own drive, so you are right, a small M2 drive , 64 or 128 (there is only room for one convention drive, so the M2 version) for the OS, 2tb for the music
It’s all in the ROCK Guide
Yes, you can enter samba path “\\ROCK\Data” to access the local disk.
Yeah, I was able to get to the drive and load files just fine from another computer on the network. The issue is Rock doesn’t appear to recognize its own drive as a data drive. Apparently it says that in the Rock instructions although it wasn’t that specific on the Rock storage basics page. No matter.
I have installed a second (smaller) SSD to run Rock and I’m now awaiting a cable delivery so I can reformat the original (larger) drive that I intend to store the music files on. I presume I will be good after that. Thanks for everyone’s help.
I’m not a computer expert, but for any of those who get down this path I figure I should probably update this in case someone needs the info down the line.
The Rock-formatted SSD, when in an SSD-USB external enclosure, was NOT recognized by my Mac, an older windows machine, nor a linux Ubuntu machine, so there was no way I could erase it/reformat it that I could find that way.
I WAS able to install Ubuntu overtop of the second (internal) Rock-formatted drive from a USB thumb drive using the NUC itself, so there is at least a way to get your drive back to a non-Rock state. From there, I was able to re-install the original Rock-formatted SSD back into the second drive enclosure in the NUC, and Ubuntu was able to reformat it that way back to a data drive. Running Ubuntu from the USB drive ALSO didn’t recognize the Rock-formatted SSD while it was in the NUC–I had to install it on the second drive.
So I guess the shortcut to fixing my issue would have been to install another OS overtop of the drive while it’s in the NUC from a USB install drive, then format it to something else after that?
Anyway, I know this write up in confusing, but hopefully it will help some folks who might get into this situation.
I haven’t yet re-installed Rock on the second SSD (it’s still running Ubuntu), but I plan to just to see if I can do what I was originally intending and to see if it’s stable and sounds decent.
Thanks for everyone’s help.