NAS recommendations for installing Roon Server on a NAS?

[fschmeis]

@Tim_van_der_Leeuw

I need a NAS anyway, as a general and reliable storage, for photos mostly. And I need some hardware to run my Roon server on.

So I’ll be buying a NAS no matter what and then if it can run Roon server comfortably, that will be great, as I’ll need to get only 1 box instead of 2, hopefully saving myself some money in the process.

This is where I startet many many years ago; as others have already pointed out: Purchasing a NAS which is able to run the Roon Core performant costs more money, needs more administration effort and is less stable than buying a NAS just to store the music (and photo) files and run Roon core separately on a NUC

my journey with a QNAP TVS 671, i5 and 16 GByte of RAM can be found here: Roon stopping randomly (and here: Export hangs with spinning circle but no error message)

3 weeks ago I moved to a Intel NUC10i7FNK with ROCK (internal SSD for ROCK and Roon DB, 32 GByte RAM, library still on QNAP), much more stable, bettter performance (with a large library of appr. 440.000 tracks) and - after setting it up - zero maintenance needed … strongly recommended!