NUC with one ethernet socket is fine?

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Hello everybody,

I have a NAS and an Allo Digione connected to my local network on a switch to stream my library to my Hegel Rost amp. I want to add an i5 NUC to install Roon Rock on it but it only has one ethernet socket. I ask if I connect the NUC to my Allo Digione in ethernet how to connect the NUC to my local network as well?

Thank you!!

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This is correct. Both Nuc (ROCK) and the Allo DigiOne should be connected to the switch.

Router/ Modem
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Switch
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||__Nuc
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|__DigiOne

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Ok thanks.

The best would be a fanless NUC or the Intel NUC fan is still quite quiet?

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I understand that the NUC running ROCK is near silent. However, you don’t need to keep the NUC in your listening room.

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all the gear is in the listening room I have no choice. but I don’t realize if the NUC fan blows a lot or not when using Rock. I hesitate between Zotac and Intel NUC i5.

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Is the NAS in your listening room too? If not place the NUC with this. If it is I doubt the NUC will generate more than a NAS with spiining disk.

If you’re running ROCK stick to the recommedations here.

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After about a year’s running the fan of my NUC8i5BEH started getting noisy from time to time, so I had to move it to another room.

I’d go for fanless if you have to keep it in the listening room.

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Dust on the fan. Take a vacuum cleaner to it.

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Nope, no dust accumulation to speak of (first thing I checked). Whining always coincided with highish workloads like multi zone activity with separate queues.

NUCs don’t allow for much customization so I just moved the whole thing.