Thanks AJ,
Okay, so I will consider to get a NUC or Titan.
Thanks Jim,
I didn’t know that Titan coming up. It’s a bit expensive but will be great for using gigantic files.
How can I connect my music files in NAS to Titan?
Thanks Suedkiez,
It was a great information for NUC. Thanks a lot.
Need to understand more about NUC. Because I’d been only Mac user long time.
Thanks Jeff,
Yes, I found it in desktop version. Thanks.
Have run and tested several QNAP models and would not recommend one of their home or semi-pro models for a library of that size. It might work but also might be sluggish running roon on it.
A powerful pro NAS with sufficient computing power and RAM capability would be TVS-h474. For your information, this one runs on QTS hero (the pro OS) and I have never been trying roon on that one.
Not with QNAP´s TVS series which can rival a powerful desktop PC. These are pro machines made for continuous computing-heavy operations such as video processing, decrypting and alike (and not so much multitasking/virtualization). They come with CPU like faster Core i5 Gen 12 or Pentium Gold and allow 64GB of RAM. That should be sufficient for roon running a library of 250k tracks.
In QTS´s app center you can install roon server app directly, log in, start the app to relocate the database to one of your SSDs and de-authorize your previous core. Not sure if this is applicable to QTS hero as well but manual installation is very easy, just download roon core for NAS/Linux from roon´s website and install it manually via App Center.
As a network share
Then I’d nevertheless consider a Mac Mini
I already factored in that possibility. A pro level NAS like that runs about $2000 (or more). How is that a good recommendation? An appropriately powerful and dedicated Roon server on NUC or similar small form PC can be had for $500 (or less).
AJ
As far as the original poster was already planning to buy a faster NAS I thought it is useful to know what a sufficiently powerful NAS from the same manufacturer would be. As far as we are talking about a 20TB HDD and 250k tracks already I think it is worth considering a professional solution for RAID, backup, running SSD and HDD parallely and having everything migrated with literally no effort from the former NAS.
No one said it is the cheapest solution. Such models can be bought starting at 1400 and you have all the aforementioned possibilities plus very powerful roon core in one machine.
Thanks Arindal,
Cool.I’ll check TVS-h474 for sure. QTS hero seems very powerful.
And it was great information that I can install Roon via QTS app center directly.
Thanks Suedkiez,
Okay. So Titan will search my NAS’s IP address and connect. Is that right?
Thanks AJ,
Cheaper ROCK NUC system will be nice too.
But I’ll be needed faster NAS this time.
Because my NAS is pretty old one. So it’s need to replace anyway.
Why? Music file service is not the bottleneck. A new NAS is not going to serve your music files to a separate Roon machine any better than your current NAS does. Be certain you understand that.
AJ
Hero is said to be powerful in terms of data security, encryption and file system but I am not sure it offers everything you want. From how I understand it you due to different file and volume system definitely cannot migrate an HDD from a QTS NAS to a QTShero system and expect things to work immediately. That is what I consider one of the huge advantages of Qnap making things very easy as far as you have a QNAP unit already.,
So it might be a good idea to downgrade the OS to QTS when setting up a pro-NAS. Should be possible with the aforementioned model.
In terms of solely using the NAS as a reservoir for an external roon core, a slow and compact one might do the job. But if one has 20TB of (music) data a fast and professional NAS in terms of redundancy, backup, vibration/temperature management and fast network connection might be a good idea. That is anyways going to cost money, so paying a premium for a pro-model being capable of running roon on the same machine is at least a solution worth considering.
Thanks AJ,
Why> Again, because I need a new NAS anyway. Not only for Roon.
Thanks Arindal,
I have contacted QNAP support.
They have recommended TS-473, but this one is discontinued. So they recommended TS453e this time.
What do you think about this model?
For running Roon with 200K tracks? No.
It has a Celeron J6412 CPU. Even for “large” libraries with 12K albums (about half of yours), Roon recommends a NUC11TNHi7 for ROCK, which has a Core i7-1165G7 CPU.
This is the single core benchmark comparison:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4474vs3814/Intel-Celeron-J6412-vs-Intel-i7-1165G7
Ok,
Then, I’ll consider TVS-h474.
Because I prefer QNAP NAS & QTS.
This one is CPU-wise even slower than my own Celeron N5105-based consumer Qnap. I would not recommend it for a 200k library. It is certainly depending on the structure of your library, it might work, but I would expect it to slow down noticeably with everything exceeding 100k tracks. I run it with a core library of 60k (certainly a more complicated one due to classical music and zillions of references and big files) and it is very smooth but slowing down with every few 1,000 tracks added.
That’s in my understanding the Qnap series to look for if you have a very big library. The TVS-h474 has Pentium Gold as far as I know, but there are others models in this series (6bay) run by an even more powerful Core i5 Gen12.
Thanks Suedkiez & Arindal,
It seems that TVs-h474 is the model that suits my environment this time.
