ROCK? For very large library (350K tracks)

[Highfi]

Thank you all for kindly providing helpful info.

I’ll summarise here, and thank you to the mod for having moved all this to a new thread.

As I mentioned in my first post:

@Highfi

[I] am considering switching to Roon Rock but hesitate due to the outdated Roon knowledge base articles. I’d hate to spend time trying to go through a long and frustrating install process. So also thinking about just getting a well-specked new Mac Mini, instead.

@Highfi

I forgot to mention, I have a very large library.

@Highfi

Library is 38264 albums / 334456 tracks (Qobuz and 3TB local lossless files).

According to valued and esteemed member, Geoff_Coupe, Community: Volunteer Moderator:

@Geoff_Coupe

That’s a big library - it would certainly overwhelm a GMKtec Mini-PC. Even a NUC13ANHi7 will probably not give you the best user experience.

@Highfi

This would be my main computer and I also run the occasional VM, which makes things even worse.
So I would think 24GB would be the minimum to get now. And 32-48 for future-proofing?

@mjw

For the largest libraries, 16 GB would be more than adequate. Edge cases would require more, plus a processor with strong single-core performance. 32 GB is probably enough in this scenario.

What size is your library? 3 TB storage is ~75,000 tracks, so within the Nucleus One specification. If you’ve maxed on Qobuz, you’re still under 200k tracks.

Local track number is 182,621 files.
I have hidden the mp3 files in my Roon Library (Show Hidden Tracks: No). I don’t know whether these hidden mp3 tracks count towards RAM use or not.

@Johnny_Ooooops

with that size library I’d personally want this running on a separate machine… and then get a desktop that suits my needs. You could probably get two M4 mini base models for less than the same price and be very happy

My profile states ‘13d read time’. I’ve been a forum member since Jan 2017. However, all this was not clear to me before. Perhaps doing some reading in the morning, as opposed to while listening to music in the evening helped

My current thinking is to get a Mac Mini M4 16GB 512GB for Roon only.