While I prefer to have my Roon Server outside of the listening room (like I had in my previous house), my current setup in my apartment needs to have my Roon Core inside my listening room unfortunately.
So I’ve picked up the NUC7i7DNHE with an Akasa Plato X7D fanless case.
It took a few hours to put together because I’m extremely slow but also because I triple checked all connections because I never want to open it again.
The beauty with this is not just the fanless case with no moving parts but it’s also in a solid case that I can take with me when I travel.
There’s overkill here. I most definitely didn’t need 250gb for the M.2 SATA SSD drive but it was on sale for not much more than a 120gb WD SSD. Additionally, with 1 x 16gb DDR4 installed and the 2.5" 250gb SSD installed (no longer needed in my Synology NAS), if I want to repurpose this machine for a fanless Windows machine later, it’s ready to go without having to open up the case ever again.
