[image] Suggested hardware and we plan to open up the operating system (Roon OS) in case you want to DIY the machine yourself. Hmmm. This is interesting. Care to elaborate?

Even for those of us who have been using *nix professionally since V7 was new (that dates me ;)), RCK is attractive, one less gadget to maintain manually on an already complicated home setup. I’m running Roon Core over Ubuntu on a NUC, serving music from a NAS. The only reason I might continue to do…

[image] Henrik: Does Roon Core Kit support Intel E1000 NIC? As it is an appliance I assume there will be no way to inject other NIC drivers and thus I need E1000 support. I think I remember adding that board because we need it for USB ethernet adapters, but we aren’t going to support you on t…

everyone asking questions about hardware… please read @AMP ’s post above. He said it so much better than I did. +++++

Nice post AMP. I wouldn’t call myself a Linux expert by any means, but can just about deal with it - I’d be able to get a Linux Roon Server setup for sure. Thing is, I just wouldn’t bother. I hate Linux and only have experience with it because I worked in a multi-OS boutique company and Linux was …

Santa was kind (I must have been good ;-)). Anyway – it appears that I am more than ready for RCK (NUC6i5 Roonserver to the left; NUC6i3 to the right): [image] The i3 was up and running as full fledged backup server for pretty much anything digital in our household (including music files and Roon…

Ok. Detail the setup, please. How will you be backing up the music attached to your RCK?

[image] RBM: Santa was kind (I must have been good :wink:). Anyway – it appears that I am more than ready for RCK (NUC6i5 Roonserver to the left; NUC6i3 to the right): You know it’s true love when your partner knows what NUC models you’d like for Christmas. :grin:

[image] fritzg: Ok. Detail the setup, please. How will you be backing up the music attached to your RCK? Easy: the i3 automounts the Roon share from /etc/fstab and rsyncs the music folder every night to the backup disk. Amongst other things. :slight_smile:

[image] hifi_swlon: You know it’s true love when your partner knows what NUC models you’d like for Christmas. :grin: To be perfectly honest: the i5 has been serving my Roon needs for a few months now – but I may have dropped a hint or two about the correct spelling of ‘NUC6I3SYH’.

That’s good news if we can mount the USB share attached to a RCK. Would be better if we could run a backup from RCK. But your explanation is a bit beyond me, my Linux skills are still pretty limited. Haven’t done much of anything since setting up my NUC six or seven months ago.

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