Dell Server as a Roon Core
Hi I'm about to purchase a rack mount server and would like to use it as a dedicated Roon Core instead of running Roon on my PC. Will this be an option instead of using a nuc and Ron rock?
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I do this. I run Roon Core in a virtual machine on a Dell server.
Don’t go too low on the single core performance if you plan do use DSP in Roon, many cheap rackmount machine may look fast but are very old and pretty slow.
I bought a Dell PowerEdge R210 II, Xeon E3-1230 V2 3.30GHz, 8GB, 1TB HDD
I am running roon on an ubuntu VM on proxmox from my old Ryzen 1700 system. works great.
Single core speed is the most important factor when choosing a computer to run Roon on.
Mine runs very nicely on a R220. Bare metal ROCK install. The only thing was I had to install an INTEL Nic.
Yes, if you can put this rackmount server in a different room than your audio system of course.
Why do I need to put it in another room? Just asking
Easily done. I run my Roon Core on an R230 with Linux as the OS. Handles multiple concurrent zones without breaking a sweat. (I do basic DSP for room-specific EQ correction. But no crazy upsampling -- the thing that really eats up CPU -- as it's unnecessary.)
Debian 12 runs smooth on roon Running 1u hp