Hardware Recommendation to improve speed access for a large music library?

[mikeb]

Perhaps you could try some Windows ‘optimising tips’, such as killing unnecessary background tasks, software update checking, etc, etc.

There are some insights here:

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…