Cubox i4Pro Quad Core for Roon Server?

[Bownose (Claire Fox)]

I was thinking of getting a low power machine to act as a dedicated Roon server and stream to a Raspberry Pi/DAC, like the Quad Core Cubox i4x4. Is this an acceptable platform its a ARM A7. In fact with the Cubox optical out I could get a DAC and dispense with the PI altogether.

I think it runs Openelec

[evand]

No, it’s not got enough grunt.

Minimum RoonServer Hardware Requirements?

I’m a big one for the search function, but have not been able to adequate info on the practical minimum hardware for a RoonServer. By “practical” I mean able support a single zone, modest sized (1,500 album) library, and not become obsolete quickly. Brian from Roon Labs gave a good write-up of Roon hardware requirements here. But that’s the full blown Roon application, not RoonServer. So except for knowing that there should be no graphics requirements for RoonServers, what else can we back off …

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/suggested-hardware/90/20

[Bownose (Claire Fox)]

thanks, would the CuBox-i 4×4 also be low grunt?
4gb ram ARM cortex a9 – 64 bit, 1GByte @ 1066Mbps

If not, I am specifically looking for a low wattage solution as my home power is off grid and every watt counts. Any suggestions are gratefully welcomed…

[crieke (Christopher Rieke)]

maybe the upcoming udoo board on kickstarter could be an option.

[Bownose (Claire Fox)]

In the end I decided to just pension off my watt guzzling ancient PC, remove the QNAP NAS and a bunch of other services always on and run a modest 2-disk RAID off the Raspberry Pi Roon EndPoint and get a more power-efficient modern Mac. Maybe not the best Watt/h solution than a Nuc, but pretty close.

[adamus]

waiting for an ipod endpoint