4 years ago I built my own ROCK and have been rather pleased with it
I have decided to build another but the guidance differentiates between small to medium libraries and large libraries i.e. anything above 12,000 albums is a large library
My question is then does 12,000 mean just those on my local drive or does that include those from Qobuz/Tidal that I have included in my library?
How many tracks do you have in your library? And, how fast is it growing?
If you have been using an i5 up til now, and still enjoy the performance, a 12th gen i5 would work even faster. Or, make the jump to an i7. It all depends on your current library size and your guesstimated growth rate (assuming all other factors are the same).
Are your 12000 albums stored on internal HDD or external HDD ?.
I have a library of 14000 albums occupying a bit more than 14TB of storage. I like the idea of a ROCK based server, but how to hold 14GB on internal HDDs as I don’t want a string of USB drives ?.
There are currently single drive external HDD with up to 20TB storage space available, multi drive solutions can hold even more data in a single enclosure. So no string of external USB drives is needed just a single, appropriately sized to your (foreseeable future) needs external USB drive solution.