Hi Chris, I’m writing for my father Jean-Claude who uses ROON. He currently has a collection of about 25,000 albums (the work of a lifetime), 12 TB of data and wants to store it on a NAS. I’m considering, to stay on a reasonable amount, a Synology DS918 + (Intel Celeron J3455 64bits and 4Gb or 8Gb …

[image] JEAN_CLAUDE_ROZET: SSD M2 for the Roonserver database Keep in mind, Synology only allows the m.2 slots on the 918+ as SSD cache for another volume. You cannot create a volume directly on the m.2 SSDs. Also, pretty much any Synology less than an xs series will be a bad choice for run…

Remember too that albums added to your library from streaming sources count too. Locating music on a nas is no problem at all…but running your core on a nas gets more and more demanding the bigger the library is and the more options you avail yourself of in dsp settings too. You can certainly try i…

[image] cwichura: You’re much better off just using the Syno as the storage for the music library and then network mount that on a NUC running Roon Core. [image] wizardofoz: 12tb fits on a single drive these days. In terms of responsiveness, you’re probably better off fitting the 12TB …

Well tbh if you can move a Nuc to a Fanless case better to build a pc with proper desktop cpu and hd plex case and put the 14tb drive internally. Run windows on it and your are done. Or try ROCK on it first. It all depends on your level of confidence.

Agreed, but the logic here was that it was something built for OP’s father, and thus “officially supported and therefore appliance-like” > “best power/cost ratio”. Also, I haven’t seen idle power draw on desktop systems, but I’d guess they’d be less efficient than NUCs.

[image] JEAN_CLAUDE_ROZET: Synology DS918 + (Intel Celeron J3455 64bits and 4Gb or 8Gb of RAM [image] JEAN_CLAUDE_ROZET: collection of about 25,000 albums I would not recommend running a collection that large on this machine. Even for a collection a fraction of that size I would recom…

I’m not sure I agree about a DS series not being able to handle Roon Server. I have a DS415+ (w/ 8GB RAM) running Roon Server hosting 15,500 tracks (FLAC, DSD) and it’s never so much as hiccuped. Using 4x4TB WD Red Pro in SHR and a DX213 2x2TB in RAID 1, with a 256GB USB SSD as cache for Roon. It…

Hello everyone, First of all I want to thank you for the support and suggestions that you bring me and especially @cwichura for his comment on SSD M.2. So I change the NAS DS918+ for a DS1019+, is the same processor but there is 8GB of RAM and a 5th Bay. I will put a Samsung 860 QVO 1TB SSD drive …

[image] Prashant_Sistla: I have a DS415+ (w/ 8GB RAM) running Roon Server hosting 15,500 tracks (FLAC, DSD) and it’s never so much as hiccuped. What works for 15’000 tracks is very different to what works for 250’000 tracks. Roon’s database grows exponentially more complex the more you add tr…

Synolgy DS918+ and a really really big collection

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wizardofoz (Mr Fix It aka The Wiz) April 3, 2019, 11:08am 9

This sums a lot…how you get a system that will perform with a good user experience will depend on how much you can do on your own or have to rely on 3rd party products.