Hi,
I just bought a Audiophile Music Server LUMIN D2 which have ROON Ready. I am expecting my redeem code from LUMIN.
Can you tell me what will be needed to make the transfert in a safe way in order to preserve my Roon data.
On the other hand My data are on MD MYCLOUD device. I am exploring the ways to upgrade To a NAS. The two main options are QNAP and SYNOLOGY.
Cold you let me know where I could find the pertinent information to evaluate what would be my best choice or maybe your experts already have formulate an advice about this matter
Actually, my WD MYCLOUD has 3TB storage capacity and ùoùnly 1 TB is used. The back up is on a external storage but I wold l’aile to have a more efficient solution, it is why I wold like to move to a NAS with the back-up facility.
I take the opportunity to wish your team an Happy and successful New Year.
I don’t think you have the D2 capabilities quite correct…it can run as a roon ready endpoint but not as a core, your core would still be on a computer. In your case your existing MBP.
As for the NAS you could run the core on a suitably spec’d NAS but it would depend very much on the DSP features you might want to use. Failing that just use the NAS for storing your music or if you want a stand alone core look at going for a NUC and ROCK core with external usb drives for your music.
Unless you are running a trial of roon core already the redeem code won’t be much use I suspect. Endpoints don’t require codes to be part of a Roon deployment. You just need to connect them to the network or via usb to the core machine and add them in the settings x audio setup area.
The redeem code is most likely a trial code that extends the normal 2 weeks to maybe 1 or more months.
Please do not be concerned about the Non Certified alert - this is caused by Lumin D2 being a new model. Lumin D2 is a replacement model of D1, which is Roon Ready. It takes time for us to work with Roon Labs to get D2 to be recognized by Roon as a certified model. Other than this alert (which may be considered a false alarm), D2 is fully supported by Roon just as the rest of the Lumin product line is.
As for adopting a new Core - unless you’re dissatisfied with your current Roon Core on MBP in some way, or it does not have enough processing power for the Roon DSP function you need, you can keep using it.
Moving the Roon Core from MBP to NAS will free up some CPU resources from your MBP if that’s what you want.
A NAS from QNAP or Synology with x86 CPU and 4GB-8GB RAM can be considered, but the less expensive models (e.g. TS-253B or TS-453Bmini) usually have low performance CPU, they are often not considered to be ideal for Roon usage with DSP. In the context of Lumin, if you want to try the native Lumin app control instead of Roon, you can install the freeware MinimServer on the NAS.
Choices with more powerful CPU include the upcoming Roon Nucleus, SonicTransporter, or NUC7i5BNH (may use with a fanless case or SBooster LPS).
Gaetan, I used Carbon Copy Clone (Mac) to move my music files. Going forward, I strongly concur with your decision to move away from WD MyCloud for your storage. I experienced meaningful performance issues (shutdowns) that seemed to crop up whenever the number of processes got too high. Memory shortcomings I think.
If you are happy with dedicating or sharing your MBP with Roon, go for it. My MacMini worked okay, but it only had spinning disks, so it was a bit pokey when the library started expanding.
But if you can’t do without other uses of your MBP, consider a dedicated NUC ROCK. Best wishes.
After severals explorations, I consider to by the following device : QNAP TS-251A-4G Diskless Dual-core NAS with 6TB of storage on hard disk in RAID set up. To back-up, I will use a external storage device to keep the cost as low as possible.
I followed your suggestion to use the LUMIN APP and I will install the MInimServer on the NAS.
Tank you again and I wish you an Happy New Year 2018 with as much as expected of free leisure time of quality.