Roon on NAS Experience Index: 2026

Roon Software Discussion QNAP/Synology NAS
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My (previous Roon, now only file share) NAS is a TS-473 with 64 GB,
CPU: AMD Embedded R-Series RX-421ND, up to 2100 MHz (4 cores, 4 threads)
Roon was running on a SSD. It could not handle my larger library. Moved Roon to a separate PC, which is running Windows 11. No Rock. Handles 500.000+ very well. Only had the memory-leak issue once last year.
Happy after that change!
No more resetting Roon in the night due memory-leaks.

I did bought this NAS specifically for Roon, and it failed after my library grew, even after expanding memory 2 times.

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I think the issue here was the performance of the CPU.

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Maybe.
Also the memory issues Roon had since 1.8 and just recently fixed ..

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Yes, for sure, even though there is probably a little more work to be done in that regard, there have been a lot of fixes in the last 6-9 months.

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Any Notes People Should Know?
When it’s good, it’s really good. My QNAP has enough horsepower to do most tasks pretty well with Roon, even with a 5+ year old hardware platform. Problems in the past have been strange situations where clients can’t find the server. These days Roon is solid enough that it only happens when the server is constrained for memory, perhaps if I have a really large virtual machine going at the same time.

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Summary:

45Drives HL15 ****

Brand: 45Drives - 45HomeLab

Mode: HL15 - old version with a xenon silver

  • Roon ROCK VM has 8 cores

NAS OS Version: ProxMox

Total Installed RAM: 192GB

  • Roon ROCK VM has 12GB

Roon on NAS Method: Roon ROCK VM on ProxMox

Main Drives:
Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB x 5 - RAID5 ZFS (music data)
2x Samsung 980PRO mirror - fast NAS drives
1x NVME not sure the brand, Boot + Roon VM drive (I should mirror this :/)

Roon DB Drive: Proprietary backplane

LAN Connection: 2x 10GbE

Number of Local Tracks: 26,000

Total Size of Locally Stored Music: 600GB (FLAC gets you)

Number of Streaming Service Tracks: 3500

Geography: Australia

Dedicated to music use? No - primarily TrueNAS server
Also runs a local DNS and SQL databases

Using ARC? YES! Arc over Tailscale (using an LXC hosted Tailscale node not the in ROCK solution. Made some posts about it, always some jiggling needed here. Working well now.

Using DSP? Yes, a few room based REW made room convolution filters. (And some to turn the base down at night haha)

Typical Number of Simultaneously Used Playback Zones: 1-2 + Arc

Overall Rating

So happy with using my own files, building metadata, freedom from streamings narrow selection that was narrowing my own musical taste.
Arc is sometimes a battle but worth the work.

Totally overpowered system not meant for Roon but easily slid in here and works well.

People should know
Roon Rock, and arc and all the above is a labour of love. Fun to be had at each hair pulling moment. But they do come.

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I moved from being installed on my NAS to a R.O.C.K. setup.

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I’m curious… what have you noticed in regard to performance, etc.?

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ROCK has been superb! Extremely fast and stable.

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Summary: Brand - Model - Experience Rating

Brand QNAP

Model TBS-h574TX

NAS OS Version QuTS hero h5.2.8

Total Installed RAM 16GB

Roon on NAS Method Roon directly on NAS

Main Drives: Brand HP

Main Drives: Model SSD FX700 4TB

Main Drives: Quantity 5

Main Drives: RAID Configuration RAID 5

Local Area Network Connection Method Ethernet 1Gb

Number of Local Tracks 81400

Total Size of Locally Stored Music 3.58TB

Number of Streaming Service Tracks 3900

Geography Australia

Dedicated to music use? No, otherwise shared documents and backups, no ‘active’ apps

Using in Parallel with NAS Vendor Music Solution No

Using ARC? Yes (but rarely)

Using DSP? No

Typical Number of Simultaneously Used Playback Zones 1

Overall Rating *****

Any Notes People Should Know?
Using a Mac to access and update the Meta-data with the majority of Roon import settings set to ‘use file’
The NAS OS being case sensitive and automated update processes not handing non-ascii characters well (eg XML files as UTF-8), this makes for an interesting and often quirky experience

Left my old Synology (416+ play) for dead. Now used as a destination for file backups only.

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Brand QNAP

Model TVS671 i7-4790S

NAS OS Version QTS 5.2.8.3359

Total Installed RAM 16 GB

Roon on NAS Method Christopher Rieke roononnas.org

Main Drives: Brand WDC

Main Drives: Model WD80EFAX-68LHPN0

Main Drives: Quantity 6

Main Drives: RAID Configuration RAID-6

Roon DB Drive: Brand Crucial

Roon DB Drive: Model CT1000P5SSD8

Roon DB Drive: Size 2 x 931.51 GB RAID-1

Roon DB Drive: Connection Method (e.g., Main Board, USB3, eSATA) PCIe (NVMe)

Local Area Network Connection Method Extension Board QM2-2P-384 2.5GB

Number of Local Tracks 48.721

Total Size of Locally Stored Music about 2 TB

Number of Streaming Service Tracks 10.076

Geography Germany

Dedicated to music use? (Yes/No) Yes

Using in Parallel with NAS Vendor Music Solution (e.g., Synology Audio Station, QNAP Music Station, etc.?) (Yes/No) YES Volumio, Audirvana

Using ARC? (Yes/No) Yes

Using DSP? (Yes/No) No

Typical Number of Simultaneously Used Playback Zones 1

Overall Rating (Choose One; backslash star (\*) to give a star):****

(****: Everything flawless)

Any Notes People Should Know? Whatever I try, I always come back to Roon.

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My setup is as follows:

Brand Synology

Model DS923+

NAS OS Version DSM 7.3.2-86009 Update 3

Total Installed RAM 20GB

Roon on NAS Method RoonOnNAS → RoonOnNAS – Use your NAS as a Roon Core 20220216

Main Drives: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 4TB

Main Drives: Model Sandisk WD Black SN850X 4TB

Main Drives: Quantity 3

Main Drives: RAID Configuration No RAID

Roon DB Drive: Brand Seagate

Roon DB Drive: Model ST24000NT002-3N1101

Roon DB Drive: Size 24TB

Roon DB Drive: Connection Method (e.g., Main Board, USB3, eSATA)

Local Area Network Connection Method Ethernet 2.5GB

Number of Local Tracks 70000

Total Size of Locally Stored Music 2.3TB

Number of Streaming Service Tracks

Geography UK

Dedicated to music use? (Yes/No) No

Using in Parallel with NAS Vendor Music Solution (e.g., Synology Audio Station, QNAP Music Station, etc.?) (Yes/No) Synology Media Server and Emby

Using ARC? (Yes/No) No

Using DSP? (Yes/No) No

Typical Number of Simultaneously Used Playback Zones 1

Overall Rating *****

Any Notes People Should Know?
Swap from QNAP to newer Synology and lots of memory have paid big dividends. No need as far as I can seen for expensive proprietary hardware to run Roon.

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Waited a bit to post my NAS Experience report 2026, as I wanted to gain more of experience with roon in docker on QNAP. Still investigating.

Summary: Brand - Model - Experience Rating

Brand
QNAP

Model
HS-264 SilentNas

NAS OS Version
QTS 5.2.9

Total Installed RAM
8GB

Roon on NAS Method
Early Access Docker Container

Main Drives: Brand
WD

Main Drives: Model
WD140EFGX Red Plus

Main Drives: Quantity
2

Main Drives: RAID Configuration
RAID1 mirrored

Roon DB Drive: Brand
SSK

Roon DB Drive: Model
SD311 PRO

Roon DB Drive: Size
1TB

Roon DB Drive: Connection Method (e.g., Main Board, USB3, eSATA)
USB3.2

Local Area Network Connection Method
1GbE wired Ethernet

Number of Local Tracks
Using currently only 58,000 tracks out of approx. 150,000 which I keep disabled most of the time. My library is seemingly complex with lots of classical stuff like oratorios and operas with zillions of interdependencies/artists

Total Size of Locally Stored Music
11TB internal, 7TB on mostly inactive external drives

Number of Streaming Service Tracks
2,000

Geography
Central Europe

Dedicated to music use? (Yes/No)
No

Using in Parallel with NAS Vendor Music Solution (e.g., Synology Audio Station, QNAP Music Station, etc.?) (Yes/No)
No

Using ARC? (Yes/No)
Yes

Overall Rating
(****: Everything flawless)

Any Notes People Should Know
Moved from RoonOnNas to Container prior to official launch, which was a slightly rocky path with my setup (only magnetic HDD in the bays, roon container is running on external USB volume while Container Station lives on HDD).

Latest roon 2.67 B1662 runs like a charm most of the time, particularly after reboot and with just playing stuff. It becomes a bit sluggish after lots of albums being added.

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As an owner of a TS-269L, Roon decided that it no longer wanted to work as a native app on my NAS, and sadly docker is also not available on that generation, so it was the end of an era for me.

I’ve just rebuilt an HP Microserver G8 with Truenas running Roon in a container alongside plex.

I’ll say this, having an 8 core Xeon and SSD backed app storage behind it, ROON absolutely flies now!

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My situation has changed little since 2025, same NAS, same setup. 120k+ local files, all ALAC.

However, I witched certain apps from native to Docker Container, including Roon.

I could not make out any performance differences/issue, so the QNAP TS-673A is more than capable of running Roon from a Docker container and maintain a local collection of over a 120k lossless/high-res ALAC files.

One difference compared to 2025: I have tried out Roon ARC since then and it worked for me, though I didn’t do anything complicated with it… just played my local music when I was on vacation. Worked great.