This is what happens when a Nucleus abuses steroids (Custom unRAID Roon Server & NAS)

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@Geefes

Incidentally, the NAS devices were also not able to meet the increased demands on Roon server performance (HD formats, multiple parallel streams and, most recently, software DSP filters).

I have plenty of this. Many current NAS models work exceedingly well with Roon. It’s worth checking out:

Roon on NAS Experience Index: 2024

Welcome to what I hope is the first in a series of threads on the Roon Forums, which was inspired by a nudge from @arindal. Many of us on the forums use Roon on a NAS with great success (last year, I started a long thread about my own experience). Despite much of what you might read online (even in these forums), Roon works incredibly well on a well-spec’d NAS, and is officially supported, so long as one is not using Roon in a Docker container. Per @arindal’s suggestion, this is the beginning o…

And:

A Roon on (Synology) NAS Primer

A Roon on (Synology) NAS Primer Introduction Over the past couple of years that I have been participating in these forums, I’ve discovered that there might be a benefit to a comprehensive overview of what makes Roon on NAS an especially compelling way of running Roon. I’ve written a lot about this notion in several disconnected forum posts here over the years, but I’ve been thinking about putting it all together in one place for a while. I realize, however, that I don’t represent every sort of …