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Over at RoonLabs a dev quoted 5GB for a 3TB collection I have 4TB and 16GB of server RAM so will try headless and see if it flys

Worth the time and effort then I will report back my impressions One thing occurs, using AL in Roonserver mode booted off a USB (maybe even as ramroot) where is the Roon DB stored?

I briefly tried LXQT AL as a server this weekend and the good news is that the RAID array was seen and mounted correctly automagically under /run if I remember correctly Due to the amount of time it was taking rebuilding my Ronn DB from 4TB of music I bailed but might try again with headless AL to free resources and see if it works I use AL as an endpoint and it's excellent. What are the theoretical advantages of using AL at the server end though?

An AL question if I may? Currently my Roonserver runs Debian 9/Webmin and has a mirrored software RAID 1 (4TB) with all my toonz with the OS on an SSD If I move to running Roonserver on AL I'm guessing I lose the RAID array, so am I correct that even if I setup such an array from CLI in AL (assuming my ArchLinux skills are up to snuff) I'll lose all the data and have to start from scratch??

Turnes SATA, unused LAN, bluetooth and wireless off Turned off SATA, Bluetooth, WiFi and unused LAN in BIOS and gained a worthwhile SQ bump (confirmation bias in play no doubt 😂) Many thanks

Cheers I will get on to that 😊

Also can anyone point me to a post with the optimised BIOS settings in it?

My endpoint (not a NUC but a mini-ITX based fanless box I put together myself with x2 Teddy Pardo PSUs, one to he mobo, one to the SoTM USB card) still has an M2 card in it from the days before I ran AL I take my USB out and run RAM-Extreme, but should the M2 come out too?

For those of you using NUCs, from a hardware perspective why do you think they are capable of outperforming bespoke kit like SoTM and Sonore? It seems counterintuitive to me that a general purpose board like the NUC, once power supply issues are addressed, is there or thereabouts in SQ terms with kit very specifically designed to do one job well I don't have an NUC personally, but I don't doubt for one moment those who claim wonderful things from them. I'm just intrigued as to why it might be so

If you have the skills it's very straightforward to build one So for example I have an MSI mini-ITX board in a passively cooled HDPlex case. The board takes its power from a Teddy Pardo PSU directly to mobo, and I have a SoTM USB PCI-E card with its own Teddy Pardo (so it takes only data from the mobo via an internal header, not power) If you want to add tricked out Ethernet cards or even SFP slots it's all possible (although my particular case has only one back slot, bigger silent options are available) The trickiest bit was finding the correct adapter between the TP cable and the mobo DC in AL extreme in RAM sound miles better than the previous generic Linux I used to run

oh I see ! in that case with 2 physical cores, is there still value to isolating 1 ?

Anyone having any joy with the 'isolated cpu cores' setting? On my endpoint, nproc gives me '4' so 4 cores right? If I enable isolation using option 1) ('all but first') and reboot etc when I look in monitoring it says only 1 core isolated? I expected 3 for audio, 1 for the rest Any thoughts?

Unfortunately the only coax in is the dual feed to the Sky box

I live in an old rambling house which brings particular network and audio difficulties I'm lucky enough to have fibre to the property, but it all goes downhill from there! The 'Net enters in one room but all the hifi is in another some way away, so my only options for getting connectivity is either wireless or ethernet-over-mains. The house mains is old anyway and very noisy (I can tell when my wife is using her hair straighteners upstairs because my balanced transformer hums like a hive of angry robo bees!!) I tried wireless first but my Netgear Orbi Mesh System uses 5GHz for all the backend stuff and connects to all the various phones, laptops etc using 5GHz too and I am unable to set up a dedicated wireless band for audio only, and the sound whilst perfectly serviceable is not as good as it might be with the audio sharing all that bandwidth (Paul Hynes LPS on the Orbi satellite helped a bit, but not much) So I ended up with ethernet-over-mains to get into the room, copper to an HP ProCurve with iFi for the TV etc etc, then into a no-name FMC, MM fibre to a 2960 v2, thence copper to my endpoint. Server connects to the ProCurve too, so also upstream of the fibre link Currently least bad option and certainly an improvement over wireless in my environment Depending on the final announced costs I plan to swap the 2960 to the proximal end of the fibre segment and have one of the upcoming Sonore System Optique devices distally Keeps me occupied !!!

Does anyone using a PC as an endpoint have any experience in using either USB-SFP converters or PCI-E SFP cards? I have fibre from my NAS to a Cisco 2960 switch then copper to my endpoint, but was wondering if bypassing the Cisco would help? Or maybe waiting for one of the upcoming tricked out SFP-RJ45 converters with LPS from Uptone or Sonore?