Having purchased a NAS with SSD that is now capable of running roon quite happily, my dedicated server is no longer needed. Its basically a NUC7 in an HP suit.
-i3 7130U (boosts up to about 3.2ghz i believe, and as a lower core count with higher clock, is an ideal roon processor). Barely stretched its legs as a core.
-8GB ram
-Crucial 256gb NVME SSD
-1TB rotational HDD
-NO WIRELESS (but then rock doesnt support many wireless chips anyway)
But the best bit of all, is it has the matching DVD rom drive, which actually clips to the base and becomes one unit. This is quite hard to come by on its own, and combined with ROCK makes for a perfect CD ripping station as well.
Units with smaller drives (and no dual drive), and no CD rom seem to sell between £100-120 on ebay, I’d like £150 inclusive of postage for the whole lot.
It’ll have a fresh copy of the most up to date ROCK on it, so you just need to turn it on and add music!
