Thread: QNAP and ROON

Is anyone running ROON server on a QNAP?

If so, how do you like it?

I have a QNAP TS-453Be. I tried running ROON on it and it didn’t work well. I had 16gb of ram and ssd’s for ROON. I was plagued with flakey behaviour, poor connectivity. It was solved by moving to a dedicated server for ROON ROCK.

It is below Roon Labs mininum requirements.

My recommendation is to get a NUC8i7BEH with a small m.2 SSD for the ROCK OS (or large m.2 SSD for Windows), 2.5" HDD for music, 8GB RAM (16GB for Windows) in a fanless chassis.

Thank you guys for the replies. We have a NUC running ROOn Rock at the factory. We periodically have to reboot it since it simply stops responding. Other than that it works fine.

The other system is my home system. And I already have a QNAP that is being used to store photos and videos. I noticed that it had a ROON application so was curious. So I read the ROON section of the QNAP support site and it basically says that the model I have is not recommended - too slow a processor which is an Intel Celeron.

Well, I decided what is there to loose but a bit of time. So I loaded the app. First off, the installation of ROON was stupid easy. The easiest ROON server install I have done. Now, wonder of wonder, this thing is actually running. And so far, it is running flawlessly. Go figure.

And BTW, I have played both PCM and DSD files and am streaming Quboz which also has worked without a hitch. I will continues and see if it holds up over time.

I ran a QNAP with Roon core, it works fine with an i3 or i5 processor. I used a m.2 cache board, 2T SSD for music, I ran Roon Core out of the NAS pool, with the database there too, and backed up the SSD to the NAS pool.

Best with at least an i3 processor, unless you have a small file list. But it did work well, the RoonCore takes care of itself nicely. I even had it do resampling of everything to DSD128 without a hiccup.

I ended up erasing my fanless NUC version of Windows, and installed ROCK. Much less finicky, I use an external USB drive, that’s easy to keep up to date, and back up.

I’m. It sure the NAS is even on anymore, with the ease of cloud storage now a days, I don’t use/need it much. I guess if I ripped videos and wanted to distribute them through the house.