I installed Rock on a new NUC8i7INHPA2 that has ben running continuously for c.5 years. While I was away with work this week the NUC seems to have given up and wont switch on.
I’m not an IT confident person, so am stuck at the moment. The NUC was backed up weekly onto an external USB SSD.
If I buy a new “barebones” NUC can I move the memory card and internal SSD from the dead NUC? Will the new NUC run with these transferred bits or will they need to be wiped/reformatted and I start from scratch with ROCK install.
Also how do I use the back-up on the external SSD to recover my data/library etc onto the new NUC?
I have 4 end points around the house, and use convolution filters on each so am I best getting a 13ANHi7 as the new Roon Server, or can I source an older (cheaper) i7 or i5 based nuc?
Hope someone can advise.
Maybe.
For the memory, the NUC13ANHi7 uses DDR4 3200 SODIMS. Your existing NUC probably uses similar, if not identical, memory. Earlier generations of NUCs should also be able to use the memory from your old NUC.
The internal M.2 SSD (OS ssd) installed in the old NUC will fit in a new NUC. However, you will likely find that you need to re-install ROCK from scratch.
Any SATA internal storage drive in the old NUC will be usable without the need to reformat.
However, a word of warning. You don’t know what went wrong with the old NUC. It is possible that one or more of these components has also been damaged so be prepared to find that they dont work.
Once, your new NUC is up and running and ROCK is installed, connect the external SSD. Then connect to the new Roon Server with a Roon Client (you may have to disconnect from the old server first). You should then see the ‘login screen’ where, instead of loggin in, you can select to restore a backup:
This will likely provide a option to browse for the backup location. Browse to the external storage (under \Data\Storage) and then you should be good to go.
The NUC13ANHi7 will definately cope. I believe my NUC11TNHI7 would cope with 4 zones using convolution (unless high bit rate DSD (DSD256 and above) was employed.
I would imaging that any 4 core i5 NUC 10th Generation or later would cope as well (again assuming high bit rate DSD is not involved).
Thank you Sir, I really appreciate your reply and info. I’ll get a new NUC on order and then fingers crossed…
Up and running again with a new nuc and carryover m.2 and sata ssd. Backup was perfect. A bit of fiddling with codecs to get the new Rock install working but got there in the end. Bonus is the new nuc is running much more quietly.
Wade_Oram, thank you very much for you advice & instructions.