Tried NAS... tried ROCK... tried DietPi... but now happy on PROXMOX

Just sharing for the sake of anyone curious to try it that I’ve had an absolutely fantastic experience running ROCK on Proxmox.

I used to run Roon on a QNAP NAS, but found it pretty sluggish due to the small processor, and there were just too many things running on that NAS. So took a deep breath and bought a NUC, excited to try ROCK. I liked lots about it, its ‘appliance’-ness, its web UI, easy log access. But other things were stupid, especially the inability to set password or permissions on a media drive. So I tried installing DietPi on the NUC after advice from this forum. This was OK for a bit, but I found it finicky to update and manage, and unfortunately this was the least stable option for me - I got dropouts, which I’ve never had before.

So about six months ago I installed Proxmox on the NUC, and installed a ROCK VM on it. It was very easy both to get started on Proxmox and to find suitable settings for ROCK.

ROCK has run, um, rock-solid ever since. And I’ve got around the media drive issue as I store media on a container on the same host, accessed by ROCK as a Samba share (i.e. a network drive, but in truth both machines are on the same physical hardware!). And I have tons of power leftover for things like Home Assistant, VPN gateways, DNS servers etc, all running fast and super super stable. And I haven’t spent a penny on any of it…

If anyone’s curious about such an option and if I can help with how I did this, of course, please feel free to ask…

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