Newbie start-up essential tips

[Mike_Site]

I built my Roon Server using an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 DM with an i7 which I bought used off of eBay. The DM is a very small footprint, <> 7"x7" and very quiet. The motherboard can use the m.2 drive which are very fast. It came with 500G drive.

I added an M.2 250G drive and used the hard drive for backups of Roon. 8G RAM is enough. I have an 8 G external USB drive which stores my music. Works great.

Documentation and drivers are available from HP, so no worry about HP support.

Cost: $300 for the computer and the M.2 drive. I used Windows Server 2019 which cost $10. I would suggest looking at the G3 or G4 versions now. I have the Roon Lifetime license. All hardware and software was under $1000. I took my time to get the best price. Today with the increase of the Roon lifetime license, you price will be $1000 - $1200.

I have over 30,000 albums, and it just works, never an issue. I use RDP to manage the server.

Vibration pads under both components.

[Simon_Camsell]

Impressive stuff Mike

Can anyone help me on moving my library from my NAS to the local 1tb SSD inside my tall NUC?

Will roon copy this over or do I need to use Windows to do this?

[Simon_Camsell]

Hi Mike, got a 1tb SSD installed in my NUC …how do I copy my NAS library over to the internal SSD ? The roon setup is not very clear on this. Thanks simon

[David_Gibson]

Sorry to jump in, but Roon can’t do this. You need to use Windows. Just copy over the network to your SSD. It will take a while.

[Simon_Camsell]

Thanks David, where exactly do I copy it to?

[mikeb]

First, initialize the drive from the web interface:

http://<ip-address>

Then mount it as a smb share on a pc/mac and copy your music to it…

smb://<ip-address>/Data/Storage/InternalStorage

[Simon_Camsell]

Thanks Mike, for the first initialisation bit do I do this within Roon settings or from say explorer on a pc?

[Simon_Camsell]

I assume the ip address is the roon rock or should it be the nas…?sorry for the rather basic questions!

[mikeb]

Do this from within the web interface, the ip address is that of your roon core/NUC:

[David_Gibson]

Hopefully you’ve perused the KB. The section on music storage is here https://kb.roonlabs.com/FAQ:_Importing_Music