Cubox i4Pro Quad Core for Roon Server?

[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 …

Suggested hardware

It feels like the answer to most “will it work?” questions is going to be “It’ll work, but it won’t be as good as it could be”, because lets be honest, no-one is going to wonder whether a Mac Pro works flawlessly or not. I want to expand a little bit more to help you guys understand where the tradeoffs are so you can make good hardware decisions. As we’ve said above, Roon will run on just about anything vaguely recent. How much hardware you need to get an impeccable experience depends on how yo…