Why does ROON ROCK need to be on an M.2 SSD drive

[Geoff_Coupe]

There’s a number of discussions in the forum about Optane. Including this:

Intel Optane desirable for ROCK?

There is no real benefit to using an Optane SSD for Roon vs any other SSD. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan on Optane and have it in several of my workstations. But not in my Roon server.) Optane is lower latency, yes. But this basically doesn’t matter on a Roon system. The OS block cache will pretty much have all of Roon in RAM anyway (and by this, I also mean the active/“hot” parts of the Roon database), so you’re doing very little I/O to the SSD. Roon itself uses barely 1GB of RAM, s…