Roon Core Machine
QNAP TS 251 running the latest software and firmware, Celeron 8Gb RAM
Networking Gear & Setup Details
Netgear 5 -port unmanaged switch, ethernet to all devices
Connected Audio Devices
Meridian 218 zone controller
Number of Tracks in Library
28,163 tracks
Description of Issue
This issue is for @noris and refers to my previous post which can be found here: Cannot install Roon core
The issue of my SSD collapsing down to 16MB and rendering Roon unusable has reappeared. The solution you gave me worked for a few days. Without warning however, and with nothing changed at all, Roon stopped working with the error “there is a problem loading your library”.
Having had this issue for a while I decided to take the SSD off my QNAP and connect it to my Windows PC and access it from the server using the remote mount procedure. This worked perfectly for a couple of hours and the the issue reappeared again. By this point, having had the SSD attached to the server and then the windows PC with the same problem showing up on both, I decided it had to be a faulty SSD. A new one was therefore obtained under warranty after the problem was described to the people at Integral Memory and it was set up with the Roon database, attached to the PC and remote mounted. All was well and it worked under test. A few hours later I tried to listen to music and in the intervening hours the same problem had emerged. The Roon database location on the core was shown correctly but the size of the drive was reported as being 16MB. At the very same moment that drive was reporting correctly within windows as 120GB. I even tried a 64GB USB stick at one point, loaded up the Roon database and ran Roon from there. It worked for a couple of hours but during playback the music simply stopped dead. On checking the Roon app on my core, the size of the stick was now reported as being 16MB, not 64GB.
What I am doing now, because it is the only way I can stably run Roon, is to have the database on one of the spinning disks in my QNAP server. Roon has now been running like that for about three weeks without a hitch and the access time is not noticeably slower than it was using the SSD. The artwork on the remotes sometimes builds less than instantly but that’s not a major concern.
This looks like some kind of bug within Roon as I have tried various combinations of hardware setup and none of them was stable. The only common factor throughout was Roon itself. I did entertain the idea that the Integral Memory SSD may be incompatible with Roon in some way but that doesn’t explain the issue showing up when I used a USB stick to do the job. The whole point at the moment being that Roon is happy to run from my spinning disks but if I ask it to use an SSD, it falls over pretty quickly.
Thanks