Dell Power Edge Server

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@Scott_Casstevens

I am caught between buying a more powerful NAS and an optimized NUC to run ROON. What would prevent me from buying a Dell Power Edge Server ($965) and using that for ROON? It has a Xenon processor/8G RAM and a SSD drive?

Why do you need a more powerful NAS?

I don’t believe Xeon CPUs are appropriate for what Roon does. I had a dual Xeon motherboard and it was no better than my i3 NUC. Just because it’s a Xeon doesn’t necessarily make it more powerful. Of course, that would depend on the clock speed.

See longer discussion here, that I asked in a post a while back -

DSD512 - Is this even possible? [yes, just needs more cpu]

I run Roon Server on a 8 core/16 thread Xeon machine. The clock is 2.6Ghz. It has 16GB of RAM. I have never successfully upsampled to DSD512, although I have a couple DACs capable of that res. I am thinking that clock speed, rather than number of cores, is the limiting factor. Is this true? I upsample to DSD256 without any problems. Is DSD512 more than just theoretically possible? Is so, some recommendations on capable machines, please. Thanks.

For 1/2 the money you can get an i5 NUC that will be quieter, much smaller and much more mission appropriate.

I’m guessing you’re are going to buy this Dell used on EBay? That’s were I bought mine. If that’s true, then $965 is an outrageous price. I think I paid less than $300 for my server.