What is the max RAM size can Nucleus One be upgraded to?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Tom_Tsui1

Truly, I don’t hear any difference in sound quality with the extra memory.

None would be expected

@Tom_Tsui1

However, whether it’s placebo effect or not

It is

Nucleus Memory Upgrade

A symptom of needing RAM is a crash, nothing else. Roon OS does not have a swap file or do anything else memory based on the SSD. It’s all in RAM. If you added RAM, you shouldn’t feel any changes other than “its not crashing anymore”. If you weren’t crashing before, adding RAM will not cause your system to speed up (Nucleus doesn’t swap), and should have zero other impact other than growth potential. Roon doesn’t use more RAM just because it has access to it.

Roon Nucleus RAM Upgrade?

We do not throttle RAM usage. If you got a performance increase from replacing the RAM, it’s because the RAM got faster, or you are experiencing a placebo effect. If you have too little RAM, Roon does not use slower storage to keep working, it just runs out and crashes. Some systems (windows, macos, many linux distributions, etc…), depending on the install, will swap out the contents of less commonly used physical RAM to SSD/HDD. On those systems, you would feel a massive performance drop if …