What’s happening? · Other How can we help? · None of the above Other options · Other Describe the issue My Roon core has been happily running on my late 2012 Mac mini, for years. Now the Mac makes noises, that may announce a looming HDD (1TB Fusion Drive ) failure. Roon’s music database is on a N…

It’ll be a refurbished Mac mini M2 from 2023. Same connections for Ethernet, SuperDrive, screen and keyboard as before, and a healthy 11 years younger than my current solution.

If you feel good with Macs, a new Mini is a great solution with (in the base model) great performance/price ratio. Just install Roon, start the Roon Server, set up a remote login solution, and good to go. Superdrive works, you just need a USB-A/C adapter, How to connect the Apple USB SuperDrive - Ap…

I would not put any money in a 2012 Mac Mini. A new Mac Mini would be a good option as well as many others. Do a search on this forum to find several threads discussing this. First thing I would do is a Roon database backup immediately to an attached drive and probably do that every day if you ma…

You can add an external drive and use this as your boot drive - an SSD (nothing fancy as you don’t have the bus speed for the latest greatest SSDs) would be preferred. If all is good then you could clone the drive, although a fresh system install is usually suggested. I’ve done this with iMacs of th…

I recently upgraded my setup: Original Roon setup Roon Server running on a 2019  i9 iMac with an internal Samsung 4TB SSD for music files. This setup served me well for about 4 years, until my internal SSD started failing. New Roon setup Roon Server on a 2023  M2 Max Mac Studio, with QNAP NAS…

[image] Jim_F: First thing I would do is a Roon database backup immediately Why is this a wise thing to do? When I authorised my other (newer) mini, Roon wanted to rebuild the database. I allowed that to happen, although it took some more time then I expected. Could I have reinstated it from …

Backup Your Roon database is full of information about the music you love. In addition to your library’s metadata, it also contains any edits you’ve made, your play history, all of your Roon playlists, your favorites, your settings, and more. All of this information is stored in your Roon Database.…

The MacMini is incredibly easy to open and change the drive. Around £30/$40 would get you an SSD and some of your own time to reinstall MacOS. Although this is now starting to show its age, you could easily upgrade as mentioned above. Even Intel Nucs are cheap now for a nice i5/i7 you’d be looking…

Just get a base M4 Mac mini and a external hdd

I guess that is indeed what I’ll do. The setup with my newer mac mini works in any case, so, I’ll replace the 2012 version with a basic newer one, while keeping the database on the NAS.

Thanks a lot. That did indeed set all the import dates of songs back to what they used to be, and restored the meta-data I had provided myself over the years. Since the backup restore action, the Audio endpoints are no longer found, though. Only the ones that are physically connected to the compute…

Seeking Best Roon Core Server Solution After Mac Mini HDD Concerns (ref#GS3XVG)

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Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you) September 22, 2025, 2:05pm 12

Try this (it still applies to macOS 26 Tahoe, too):