Well yes. Like if you stop the Roon server, it’s not like everything’s gone on the next start. I also guess it does intermittently, based on the requirement that the DB is on an SSD for performance reasons. If it loaded the whole DB into RAM on startup and never wrote anything during operation, then the disk performance wouldn’t matter much (except for startup and shutdown)
Congrats on getting rid of the issue!
I have no idea how often or when changes are committed during normal operations. However, I am pretty sure they are committed before a Roon backup.
And I am a fellow user not an official.Roon employee.
Yep, it’s a good feeling. I just confirmed that Roon’s database backup, and then my environment snapshots and backups all occurred as schedule. Whew!
Thank you to you and Rugby for your help.
Me, too. 2018 (NIB) with only Roon and Safari.
Im very happy to say, that there has not been any issues last three month with my Mac mini M1 server. The new MacOs works excellent with Roon
Best of all, is that all my Marantz has been Roon Ready 
You can update a 2012 Mac Mini to a more modern operating system using Open Core Patcher. There are lots of very good videos covering this on YouTube. I‘m thinking of taking this route. Is there a recommended way of stripping the Mac of all unnecessary apps? I‘m thinking just Roon & Plex for movies and attaching it to my LG TV & B&O Stage.
I’m thinking of migrating my NUC (NUC8i7BEH, M.2 SSD 512GB, 16gb RAM) to my 2018 Intel Mac Mini (3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD). I have about 2TB of music at this point, and currently sits on an external USB 3.0 spinning harddrive (which has yet to die). I’m hoping for a significant performance improvement with using and navigating my library on the Mac Mini once setup (it can get pretty slow on the NUC). Is it worth getting a 4TB SSD for my music and plug that into the mini for even better performance, or is a spinning harddrive basically providing the same type of speed performance (i.e. an SSD wouldn’t help much for reading/playing the music)? If SSD is a good idea, does it matter which kind to get (e.g. Samsung T7 good enough?). Thanks for any feedback!
Moving music storage from HDD to SSD alone will not provide any significant performance benefit. The HDD performance is more than adequate.
Operations like search and focus and general client navigation rely upon the database but do not access the stored music itself and so performance will not be affected. Analysis of newly added albums may be improved but this is a relatively rare operation.
have to say I love my M4 Mac mini as Roon server. I have had Zero! performance issues with that thing since I have it running headless in a kallax unit next to the router. NVME SSD connected to it.
I Access it and update the M4 or move files around with “screen sharing” on my MacBook Air.
(in case I want to update Mac OS, move files around).
Im glad I didn’t go for a NUC or expensive NAS only to run Roon.
I’ve just ordered a Mac mini M4 as my Roon server. Can’t wait to get it into my hands. I’ve ordered one with 2 TB SSD, so it will have enough storage for my music library.