I am a dedicated Roon user. Currently my Roon server is on a 2023 iMac. My music library is on an 8TB external SSD connected to the iMac.
Would it be beneficial to move the external SSD to the RS130 and if yes, any idea how I would path Roon storage to find the SSD now connected to the RS130?
Many thanks!
I don’t have concrete experience with your suggested new user case. Anyway: having your music data not going over the (ethernet) network is sonically beneficial. I’m using a Fiber Optic network for that reason.
Why don’t you just connect your ssd to the Rose and play from the Rose to first listen to of you like it that way. Then, look in your network settings if you can find the ssd. If so, then use this address to set up Roon.
Hope that works for you!
It would be rather counterproductive. While you could, theoretically, configure Roon to use Rose’s SMB share as the music folder, because Roon processes any and all music it plays in the Core (server), data will be read from the disk attached to the Rose, sent over the network to your Roon server (and Rose’s SMB implementation is not the fastest), processed there, then sent back to the Rose through RAAT protocol.
With a good wired network setup it should not create any problems, but will make things less efficient for no benefit whatsoever.
Sorry, but this is complete BS.
Thank you very much. Does this mean that it’s always a best practice to have your music library connected to your roon server?
You’re welcome!
You can have it either directly connected (internal hard drive, USB, eSATA etc.) to the Core computer, or you can have it on a dedicated NAS (with some models you could even run the Core on the NAS itself).
While Roon does not put any particularly strenuous requirements on the performance of music storage itself, keeping music on the endpoint is sub-optimal – you’d be sending music back and forth from endpoint to Core back to endpoint. And of course having to keep the endpoint on all the time.
much appreciated! Thanks
You’re welcome!
In your case, I would just look into some way of making backups of your music library, but keep it attached as-is.