I am enjoying Roon a lot alongside Plex, but not enough to have 2 different servers running each one. I currently run Plex from a RasPi, which has been brilliant, but you can’t set up a Roon Core on one. I was thinking of switching to something like an Intel NUC or other small form factor PC, it would be cool to have the extra horsepower for Plex too as my library gets bigger and bigger.
I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with this? Cheers!
I have Roon and Plex running on my NuC - works very well. Plex does not need much power or Ram - but Roon is a hungry beast. Make sure you get enough RAM.
Interesting, that sounds good! So no problems with having both software run or anything? I didn’t know if there would be some issues around that.
I’ve run Roon Server, Plex, Shinobi CCTV, and storage shares on the same Linux box without any problems.
A small to medium Roon library works well with 4-8 GB, and my server runs everything fine with 16 GB.
Running both and only those 2 Apps (Roon and Plex) on a 3 yrs old Mac Mini - I have a 18tb SAN via thunderbolt that hold thousands of titles of Music and Movies.
no issues
Linux sounds like a good call with how well it’s been running Plex. What box do you use?
Roon Server, Plex, MinimServer, iDrive: WIN 10, i5, 12GB RAM, 100,000 ish tracks.
No sweat.
I use a Dell PowerEdge T30. However, the Xeon processor, whilst fine for most workloads, isn’t ideal for Roon. This is one reason why I run Roon on an NUC8i3 nowadays.
My everyday driver is a Mac, but within the last year I setup win 10 on a nuc with Roon server, Plex, and a couple virtual machines for home assistant, scripted, and several Roon extensions. The nuc doesn’t seem to break a sweat with this.
I’ll also note that roon server on windows has been rock solid for me. Better that the Roon app i was running on my Mac which seemed to have a memory leak and crash a few days.
I have the option to as my plex server is a nuc running Linux and it has Roon installed but I onlyuse it as core as a back up server. It works fine just it’s only an i3 so doesn’t have the grunt of my single core machine.
I’m running Plex, Roon and Servioo (a upnp server app) on an iMac and it’s been working great for years now. No issues come up at all for me.
I run Roon core and Plex on same server (Win 11). No problems here.
Just in case, Plex can do DLNA as well, it just needs to be enabled in Settings.
Have been running Twonky a couple of years parallel to Plex myself until I found out, although I use Plexamp just as a backup for Roon (and in cases I can‘t control Google Cast devices via ARC, which still is PITA …)
Yes, I know that Plex can serve upnp. However, it wasn’t visible to, or functional with my Aurelic streamer - not through lack of trying. Serviio worked, it runs nicely in the background and is free for what I want of it. Never tried twonky - I got to serviio first
All good then 
Twonky came preinstalled with my QNAP NAS at the time, so i just used it … But I think the license is not for free in general. However, you didn’t miss much.
Have also tested Serviio, which is more capable/flexible than Twonky, probably the better choice, although it‘s Russian, I believe (sorry, don‘t want to get political in here, but concerns remain …)
Anyway, don‘t let yourself get distracted by me, you seem to be set up well, enjoy the music! 
Always good to have all the info and I didn’t know serviio was Russian, so thanks for the heads up
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