WTB: Roon Nucleus or Mac Mini

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#281016 25-Jan-2021 17:09

Looking for either a V2 Nucleus or a Mini to run headless as a Roon server.

Mini spec would be preferably i7, 16GB RAM and good SSD.

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#2641821 25-Jan-2021 17:31

I’ve got an old (2013) MacBook Pro which is i7 and 1 tb ssd ( would need to check ram though)

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#2641834 25-Jan-2021 18:19

Old (late 2012) Mac Mini here with an i7-3615QM (Ivy Bridge), 8GB RAM, and a 1TB HDD.

RAM is an easy upgrade, HDD looks to be possible but a pain.

Wellington area.

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#2641905 25-Jan-2021 19:47

Thanks. Must be SSD as Roon do not recommend spinning discs for running the server part of it (music can be on spinning discs).

The minimum spec is

Intel Core i3, Ivy Bridge+
4GB RAM
SSD boot drive

and OSX10.14 or newer. Obvs better chip and RAM is desirable.

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#2642019 25-Jan-2021 23:06

I should be able to sort out getting an SSD in it if that's what you want.

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#2642041 26-Jan-2021 07:26

SomeoneSomewhere:
Old (late 2012) Mac Mini here with an i7-3615QM (Ivy Bridge), 8GB RAM, and a 1TB HDD.

RAM is an easy upgrade, HDD looks to be possible but a pain.

Wellington area.

@geektastic You can get dual hard drive kits for these ones do you could run the os on a small SSD and have music on a large spinning drive.

It's a half hour job to install.