First, I apologize if my terminology is incorrect. What I refer to as local storage, is the hard disc space in the pc itself, in this case a NUC.
So I have a NUC and a Synology NAS. All of my music is on the NAS with ROON mapped to that folder. Whenever my computer restarts fro whatever reasons, i have to map my drives again.
Its possible that my NUC doesn’t have the internal storage capabilities for my music collection, but assuming it does or that i am able to upgrade the hard drive, is it best to have the music stored there and only use the NAS for backup?
On a side note, I am considering purchasing a Nucleus. Is it better to run either a larger internal hard drive or external harddrive to store the music files, and again, use the NAS for backup?
If that is the recommendation, any advice on a hard drive?
Not sure what you mean by “map my drives,” but the standard way to access a NAS from Roon does not need any intervention when the Roon server computer restarts.
Absolutely. That will feel like you upgraded all of your hardware with regard to navigation and search. You are correct, use the NAS for backup. It will also give you another backup storage for your library.
It really should make no difference – Roon uses its database for search and navigation, and that would (should) be on a local drive anyway.
Using NAS has the advantage (depending on the model) of some resiliency for disk failures, and if you have one anyway might as well use it. Although I just run Roon on Synology itself so the storage is local to the server anyway.
When my computer restarts, the drives have a red x next to them, i have to right clicknand connect to the drive. Maybe map my drives is the incorrect term.
I don’t use a NAS currently, but I never saw that when I did. My suspicion is that something changes in your network when your computer restarts that requires remounting the remote file systems. If you know how to do it, it may be worth assigning fixed IPs to your Roon server computer and to the NAS.
Spoke about this a couple days ago. Personally I prefer to have a built in or a usb drive connected to the NUC.
Purely for the fact that I don’t have to wait for the NAS to spin up and connect. Plus, the fact I can move (my usb drive 5TB) and connect it to the main PC if needed to transfer large amounts of files, if the network is busy/faster transfer speeds.
Well , if you do not care about electricity bill then run an NAS 24/7 but if you prefer a cheaper solution then use either an internal HD or a HD connected to your router, but maybe this is the wrong forum for "saving money’…
I strongly recommend external 2.5 HDD instead of 3.5 HDD. They make less data loss problem when the system crashes.
Its personal opinion , I don’t have a NAS I have internal HDD in a big desktop. I sync regularly with the NUC
I have a NUC with a 4Tb SSD internal drive , its a neat package takes up 11 cm square on my desk (plus plugs) it’s self maintaining and neat . I also have a 5Tb USB external drive for stuff not currently in use . It sits on top again very neat
In my case its powered down nightly due to storm potential but starts up in 2-3 minutes so its quite power friendly
For my first Roon server it was a Dell Latitude laptop and I was pulling my library from my NAS. I thought that was so awesome. Whole house access.
After about a year it dawned on me that if my NAS crashed I would lose my library. Seen it happen to others with a NAS and their data. I need a backup to my NAS.
I hooked an external USB to the laptop server, copied the library over and set it up to backup to the NAS.
Now at this point I had been using Roon for a good while and knew my way around pretty good. I thought this was normal with the navigation and searching for all of this time. Nothing out of the ordinary.
When pulling from the attached drive instead of the NAS, the improved performance was night and day. Nothing else changed or upgraded. Just move my library locally.
The database is constantly monitoring your storage location for any changes. Any new files added locally to the library show up immediately in Roon. Lots of post over the years with folks uploading to a NAS library and it would take a while to show up in Roon. It was pulling from a NAS.
It does have an effect pulling locally than from a NAS.
I dont think the small NAS is going to raise my electric bill, especially since i have been running it for 2 years and haven’t noticed any increase. Id be more concern of my pool pump running then the NAS. Plus, i dont watch TV much, so that helps balance things out. Thanks for the input.
Of course you will not get bankrupt because of it. It’s about optimization - especially for things running 24/7. There are routers using 40 Watt for those who don’t care but there are also great routers only using 7 Watt. So if you don’t mind having a 30 Watt NAS instead of 3 Watt 2 5 HDD then go for it. I also have an NAS but not 24/7 on.
A compact NAS with SSD and reasonable energy/standby plan enabled, consumes around 0.1-0.2kWh per day or 35-70kWh per year in 24/7 mode. Maximum 30 bucks, if you live in an area of high energy prices.
I was of the impression that there is no ´right´ or ´wrong´ when it comes to individual IT solutions. But okay, it was just an example, use HDD instead, if you choose efficient models and send them to sleep mode, power consumption would not dramatically increase.
I have both NVME and standard disks in my NAS, nothing wrong.
I started with a NFS mount to my NAS but have since put a 4TB NVME disk in my NUC, 100GB for my Debian OS and the rest for music, and twice a day it backs up all eventual new music to my NAS. It seems to work nicely.
I would add , that I double up my NAS storage, backing up often so I always have a copy if one should fail. GoodSych is a reliable and easy utility for that purpose.
