Ssd’s tend to fail without warning unlike hdd’s that tend to show early signs well in advance of failure beyond recovery.
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Agree completely!
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With a remote, it is pretty easy to see whether or not the Nucleus is “on”.
the following might indicate that a Core power LED is off:
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I still would like a led on the front. 27 pieces of gear in my theater racks and one box doesn’t have a front led. In my situation it’s just weird not to have one. But to each his own…
Mount it with the ports pointing forward like a switch.
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Not going to twist a thick expensive HDMI over the top or around the side. That doesn’t work.
Well, I think a bunch more people are happy that the Nucleus appliance does not have LEDs on the front than are not. Regardless, it’s not changing so figure it out…
I’ve been using it for close to two years so I’ve dealt obviously…
This is probably a niche request, but i would like to see support of video so i could navigate the Nucleus’ Control4 driver using the C4 on screen display with the C4 handheld remote.
Or a small mirror to reflect the light on the back.
A new case, 2 HDMI ports?
Specifications - ROON - Nucleus (Rev B)
Manufacturer: ROON Labs
Product type: music server
Product name: Nucleus (Rev B)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3
RAM: 4 GB
SSD for operating system: 64 GB
Music Library Management: up to 10.000 albums, 100.000 Songs
External connections: 2 x USB 3.0 (Typ A)
2 x HDMI (Typ A)
1 x Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ45)
Internal 2.5" slot: 1x SATA SSD-/HDD-drive
max. height hard drive bay: 9 mm
Capacity connected hard drives: any
Multi-room zones: up to 6 simultaneously
DSP functions: Equalizer, Crossfeed Delay, Upsampling, room correction
Mains connection: external power adapter (included)
Power supply: 12-19 V/DC
Dimensions (WxHxD): 212 mm x 156 mm x 74 mm
Weight: 2,5 Kg
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Still no 2 x Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ45)?..
Wonder if its an 8th gen CPU this time, the motherboard is different.
Don’t wait on this. Very few motherboards have dual RJ45 ports, especially in the size used in Nucleus.
The Intel site is still only showing 7th gen boards in this form factor…
Wonder why they stuck with 7th gen? 8th gen is a significant upgrade and will perform better in the long run. Unless they never exceed 7th gen requirements then it would be wasted headroom I suppose.
Significant upgrade to heat as well
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Even given the same workloads? I would imagine not. I can’t know for sure though without doing the test.
If I was in the market for nucleus I wouldn’t let the fact its 7th gen bother me anyway. You guys know your hardware capabilities and obviously build roon around it.
7th gen NUCs have 15 watt CPUs; the 8th gen (most of them) have 28 watt CPUs…