Core: iMAC mini from 2014 i5 8GB 1600 DDR3 1 TB SATA Roon: 1.7 build 500 (Core and Remotes) Remote: iMacs and iPhones Music Files: NAS on DS218 play Synology 8.8 TB capacity used Library: 195429 Tracks / 17456 Albums Speaker: Several Sonos Speaker and Lumin T1 My system is running slower day …

Number of tracks should not make a difference. Its not like Roon is continuously scanning them…besides you can throttle the library scan and have it function on the off hours.

[image] Stefan_Janssen: iMAC mini from 2014 i5 upgrade your RAM to 16gb, then look for other processes running.

[image] Edward12: Number of tracks should not make a difference. Its not like Roon is continuously scanning them… It does. There’s a reason to why RoonLabs suggests even more power than you can get from a Nucleus + for very, very large large libraries (i.e, 500’000+ tracks). See here for the …

The only reason it ‘could’ impact performance is due to the OS caching and continuously looking at the large library. Consumer computers cache to increase the find speed. It works but there is a limit. Turn caching off, Mac does not need to cache, check or index the music…let Roon do that.

The more I think about it – you don’t want to tinker. Just get a new Mac Mini with the i7, 32GB of RAM, the 1 TB SSD, and the 10Gb Ethernet port. Should future-protect you quite well, Apple includes software to transfer everything from an old Mac to a new Mac, and you already know how to care for …

Worth reading this: [image] My experiences with Rock and a 500k+ tracks library ROCK I hate NAS’s for music storage. I know that some people like them/need them, and we do support them, but I wouldn’t use one for Roon (or any software trying to manage 50-100k+ music files…

I think you are right. More power does always help. But the described configuration cost more than 2.800 Euros. I think a 500 GB SSD should be all right. Thats makes it around 2.569 Euros. Still a lot. I have to think. But to manually change the bios to start a NUC with rock seems to be to muc…

It’s $2400 in the US. How about a PC running Windows? Windows is the native environment for Roon, after all. Something like this: [image] XPS 8930 VR Ready Desktop Special Edition | Dell USA Dell XPS 8930 Desktop Special Edition features 8th gen intel processors and high end graphics t…

Not true: the number of tracks affects the size of the database, and that is what Roon is normally working with and what affects the performance. The music files are not performance critical, either the quantity or size (samp,e rate).

Hello Edward, I just want to try to turn chaching off. But how am I going to do that on. Mac (sorry but I tried already and didn’t find it. Thanks Stefan

Recommendation to increase performance?

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