# Synology DS1621xs+ **URL:** \ **Category:** ROCK\ **Created:** [September 11, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/synology-ds1621xs/120542 "2020-09-11T18:13:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![wizardofoz](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/wizardofoz/32/47982_2.png) [@wizardofoz](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/wizardofoz)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/synology-ds1621xs/120542/8 "2020-09-13T04:01:11Z")
However DSP is not. I guess snappy is subjective as a description goes. I’ve run roon on many different platforms and specs and if you want a fully capable roon server don’t short change on your cpu speed and at least 4-8 cores, ssd is mandatory and 8gb ram minimum. Ymmv but I see so many trialing roon on what is going to be an average at best experience. > [@Suggested hardware](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/suggested-hardware/90/20): > > It feels like the answer to most “will it work?” questions is going to be “It’ll work, but it won’t be as good as it could be”, because lets be honest, no-one is going to wonder whether a Mac Pro works flawlessly or not. I want to expand a little bit more to help you guys understand where the tradeoffs are so you can make good hardware decisions. As we’ve said above, Roon will run on just about anything vaguely recent. How much hardware you need to get an impeccable experience depends on how yo… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/synology-ds1621xs/120542)._