Cirrus7 fanless i7, will it work?

[dabassgoesboomboom]

Something like this will work. Prices have come down a little the last few years (not as much as I thought but a little).

Samsung 860 Evo 1TB 2.5" SATA III 6GB/s V-NAND SSD MZ-76E1T0BW

It’s a larger capacity version of what I installed too:

The Best NUC for ROCK?

While I prefer to have my Roon Server outside of the listening room (like I had in my previous house), my current setup in my apartment needs to have my Roon Core inside my listening room unfortunately. So I’ve picked up the NUC7i7DNHE with an Akasa Plato X7D fanless case. It took a few hours to put together because I’m extremely slow but also because I triple checked all connections because I never want to open it again. The beauty with this is not just the fanless case with no moving parts …