Thomas
A NUC-12 for Roon
I had been looking for a dedicated unit to serve a music stream via Roon. In particular, I wanted an i7 processor with suitable peripherals to accommodate a Roon Optimized Core Kit. After consideration of recommendations from Roon and several outside reviews, I settled on a NUC12WSHi7 to accomplish this with 2.5 GbE LAN, Wi-Fi 6E, and other features for future use. I found that Simply NUC satisfied all my checkboxes while looking at several companies. I have problems with the mobility of my hands, so putting in many of the internals was better left to Simply NUC, who provided 8 GB of memory, 256 GB M.2 SSD, and 1 TB of SATA SSD for a comparable price. The unit was easy to order and arrived within the week. It took 20 minutes to install the Roon OS, and now the NUC has been running on a shelf by itself in the office for a week, managing my music from several sources and providing a bit-stream for my network music player as desired. Occasionally, I log onto the server by its web interface to review the status and look at the log files; however, I have had no problems.




