Roon Not Working Smoothly with NAS any help?

[BlackJack]

If you just want to use it for storage it should be sufficient.
Should you want to use it as a Roon Core it still doesn’t meet the requirements. You might be able to use it, depending in your needs, but don’t expect it to do any advanced processing (hint: DSD up-sampling and convolution filters). Read also:

Roon Causing Constant NAS HDD Access

Hey folks, Apologies for the slow response on this thread. This ended up with me, and the last 2 weeks have been a little bit busy So, I’ve discussed this issue with our dev team, and I think this is a side effect of how storage works in Roon. Roon is designed to watch your storage devices in real time, and when you add an album it should show up automatically. When your storage device is turned off, the albums it contains should disappear from Roon automatically as well, returning …

My experiences with Rock and a 500k+ tracks library

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) for myself, regardless of library size. They don’t support real-time watching for file changes very well, scanning them over the network takes 10-20x (or more) as long as a local disk. Because they don’t support filesystem watching very well, you pretty much have to scan the whole folder tree periodically to …

NAS Reccommendation

I’m looking to buy a NAS solution to store my music and run Roon Server on. Optimal performance is my main concern. Im considering both Syynology and QNAP. What would you recommend?