I greatly appreciate the responses and suggestions. I don’t want to continue off topic with my situation, so I started a separate thread here.
Some additional info about my Salkstream;
When I bought mine in 2016, Salk was using an i5 Intel processor with 8gb RAM and a single HDD that houses Roonserver and my music collection. This still works fine for me.
I’d greatly appreciate feedback in the thread I linked. Thanks!