I appreciate everyone’s helpful comments. In response to some of the replies/questions:
- Am I having performance issues? Well, here’s a link to my biggest issue at this time- I/O failure adding local music files [Ticket In] . I did not mention this earlier, as I don’t want to create one of those topics that wander off into nowhere. Of course, I do wonder if a reinstall will end up being necessary to solve this problem. But, let’s not go there in this thread - I was asked, so I am telling you.
- Due to adding some updated NAS capability, I have a little more equipment than I need (the two computers that I described in the original post, and it so happens that I have a spare SSD drive).
- When I look at the “official” Roon Hardware Specification page for libraries over 100k tracks, they recommend running Roon on an i7 or i9 Core - so that’s part of the reason for my original post. Further, as I said I am coming near 200k tracks and will head toward 250k - and that same Specification page “strongly recommends that you engage with the user community” for a library that big. So here I am - engaging.
- Sooner of later I will have to get off of the i5. With the input I’ve received here (including buying a USB enclosure and using existing drive), I realize I could move to the i7 for well under $100 - but is there a significant performance boost? Because there is clearly a PITA factor in the effort to do this
- If I could get a similar boost by staying on the i5 and just adding a 16GB memory stick, I remove the PITA factor. Based on replies to date, I don’t think this is worth doing
- So I will either make the move to the i7 or do nothing. All of your responses are valuable in making that decision
You are all much appreciated