The improvements a modern SSD brings!

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I’ve been running Roon since I first tried it on an HP MicroServer N40L, with WHS 2011 installed on a ten-year-old 128GB Kingston SSD (an unsupported OS but it seemed fine) and four drives in RAID5 mode.
Each time I ran up Roon Remote on iPad or iPhone I always got the ‘Waiting for Remote Core’ screen for a few seconds, then the ‘Roon is still trying to connect…’ screen for around a second, then it would connect ok. Once connected all was fine, albeit somewhat sluggish at times.
However, over the last few days I replaced the SSD with a 512GB Samsung 860 Pro, installed Win10 and set up Storage Spaces.
Roon Remote now connects almost instantly, and is extremely responsive. I can only put it down to the SSD as I doubt the new OS would make much (if any) difference, and as I have Storage Spaces set up as a parity drive that’s RAID5 more or less anyway.
Very pleased with how well it all works but especially with that increased responsiveness.
I’m open to (polite!) suggestions for further improvements - I see there’s a thread about using a second SSD just for Roon, or at least the database, so I’ll have a read of that shortly.

Happy listening!

Mick

EDIT: Ah - looks like the ‘second SSD for the database’ thing isn’t possible on Win10, so I probably have the best setup regarding s/w I can have.

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Thanks. That’s interesting to me. I’ve just started with Roon. I’m now working to minimise dropouts and limit the ‘Waiting for Remote Core’ & ‘Roon is still trying to connect…’ screens on remotes. All work in progress.

My SSD is fairly modern so I’m first going to try more RAM. One change at a time…

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How is your server’s storage set up? I ask because Roon installs itself on the boot drive. If your boot drive is on an old spinner and you’ve adding a SSD as additional storage, that won’t solve the problem.

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My server has 8GB of RAM (the most the box will support). CPU is a lowly AMD Turion II running at 1.5GHz.
I guess the change of OS could have helped as WHS had been on the box for eight years, and experience (albeit only with Windows) suggests that a clean install often speeds things up, but I’ve only noticed it with Roon.

Mick

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Used i3 NUC £200, ROCK free. Just saying :slight_smile: