wizardofoz
March 20, 2020, 5:32am
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That is a seriously LARGE collection and will take even a blisteringly fast PC a long time (many days) to import. I have ~ 25,000 and it takes a long time on i7-7700 8 core setup. my database is already 20GB so a 64GB system/boot/databse drive will be too small perhaps if it really is 100,000 albums you have
As a very rough estimate, plan to set aside about 2gb of disk space on your boot drive per 1000 albums. Expect the app to use somewhat less at first, growing over time as we expand music metadata capabilities and improve artwork quality.
If this is a new setup be prepared for at least week maybe longer if your files are on a NAS
It feels like the answer to most “will it work?” questions is going to be “It’ll work, but it won’t be as good as it could be”, because lets be honest, no-one is going to wonder whether a Mac Pro works flawlessly or not.
I want to expand a little bit more to help you guys understand where the tradeoffs are so you can make good hardware decisions. As we’ve said above, Roon will run on just about anything vaguely recent. How much hardware you need to get an impeccable experience depends on how yo…
Since I started using Roon a few years back, there have always been some issues with maintaining the library for large collections. I don’t remember the details, but I think the consensus was that it was an OS X limitation, and that for large libraries a dedicated PC as core would perform better.
So my question for the community / developers is: If you were starting from scratch with new hardware for Roon Core, and you intended to use a library with 200,000 tracks (just for example) what would …