Building the Ultimate Music Server with QNAP and Roon
An Immersive Music Experience Like Never Before
An Audiophile’s Dream
Everything you ever wanted in a music server is here. Navigate your music in a truly unique way, with easy access to concert dates, artist bios, lyrics, and more.
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State of the Art UI in the Palm of Your Hand
Get convenient control of your music by downloading the Roon App to run the UI on your Android or iOS device
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High Quality Streaming with Tidal
Enjoy superb audio quality and a near endless list of artists and tracks running Tidal with Roon
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Customize Your Music Browsing Experience
Roon provides innovative browsing tools to help you filter your browsing by artists, genres, and more.
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Stay Connected with Your Favorite Artists
With concert dates and social media links, you’ll always have the latest info on your favorite artists.
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Easily Connect to Audio Output Devices
Stream high-fidelity music to "Roon Ready" speakers within your network.
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Remote Volume Control
Control the volume of your “Roon Ready” speakers from your controller for a more convenient listening experience.
QNAP - the Optimal Storage Solution for Roon
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Due to the architecture of Roon*, combining a powerful CPU with SSD drives is highly recommended to ensure a smooth listening experience. QNAP offers a wide variety of NAS models with powerful CPUs capable of running Roon smoothly and effortlessly.
Designed to stay running 24/7 QNAP serves as a convenient solution to host your Roon core for on demand access. Connecting to a Roon Core running on QNAP NAS is easy from any Roon compatible device.
* A Core i3 or above CPU is recommended by Roon. For a better user experience, It is suggested to have at least 4GB memory and run Roon's database on SSD storage.
Safeguard Your Music Collection with Robust Storage Security
It’s never fun to lose data, and if you’ve ever had a hard drive crash you may have experienced this first hand. QNAP provides comprehensive data security solutions.
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Protect Against Hard Drive FailureRAID redundancy helps protect you from losing your music library in the event of a drive failure. With RAID you dedicate a number of drives to redundancy so that if a drive fails you can simply replace it with a new drive and avoid any data loss.
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Protect Against RansomwareQNAP supports snapshots enabling you to have a record of your data at a point in time that can be rolled back to in the event of unwanted changes such as a ransomware infection or accidental deletion.
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Protect Against Theft or Other Unforeseen Disasters with Offsite BackupsThe final step to creating a comprehensive safe storage solution will be to set up offsite backups. This can be done easily with QNAP’s Hybrid Backup Sync by backing up to either a public cloud or a second NAS in a different location.
Efficient and Effective
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QNAP brings the most out of your NAS
Not only does QNAP offer NAS models equipped with powerful CPUs, but it also provides the ability to create multiple RAID groups and also implement caching and tiering(Qtier*) technology allowing you to create an HDD/SSD hybrid storage solution to facilitate massive storage capacity, groundbreaking performance, and budget conscious spending. Additionally QNAP has a new storage tool called Qboost which can clean out junk files, free up memory, and schedule app use enabling you to optimize your NAS to run as efficiently as possible for your needs.
*For certain NAS models that include PCIe expansion slot(s), it’s recommended to use M.2 SSD with QM2 cards in order to maximize drive capacity in the standard drive bays.
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Multi-functional Media Server
QNAP is the perfect solution as your photo, video, and home multimedia. In addition to Roon, QNAP offers a number of other media applications such as Plex, Photo Station, Video Station and more, along with mobile apps to access your media over your phone or tablet. Give media content access to multiple users throughout your home. With feature rich media applications, and a wide variety of connection options such as Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, DLNA, QNAP is your all-in-one media center.
Your Complete Roon Setup
Setting up Roon with your QNAP NAS can be done seamlessly and with ease. To give you an idea of how you might deploy your home audio environment, here’s what an ideal solution could look like:
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CoreA QNAP NAS installed with the Roon App running on SSD storage. (see recommended NAS models below.)
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ControllerA mobile device such as your phone installed with the Roon app to browse and select your music.
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OutputA "Roon Ready" output device, to play the music.
With your QNAP NAS, your phone, and "Roon Ready" audio equipment you’ll have an unrivaled sound system setup.
Recommended Models
Prosumer
TS-x73A Series |
Performance Grade
TVS-x72XT Series |
Deluxe Performance Grade
TS-hx86 Series |
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CPU* | AMD R-Series | Intel® Core™ i5 | Intel® Xeon® D |
Max Memory |
8GB (Max 64GB) |
4GB/8GB/16GB (Max 64GB) |
8GB/16GB (Max 128GB) |
Bay | 4/6/8 Bay | 4/6/8 Bay | 6/8 Bay |
Storage | 2.5"/3.5" SATA 6G HDD/SSD | 2.5"/3.5" SATA 6G HDD/SSD | 2.5"/3.5" SATA 6G HDD/SSD + 2.5" SSD slots |
Maximum Capacity** | 80TB | 80TB | 64TB |
M.2 SSD Slots*** | 2 x M.2 PCIe | 2 x M.2 PCIe | 2 x M.2 PCIe |
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* Roon recommends at least Intel® Core™ i3 processor or equivalent.
** Based on 3.5" 10TB and 2.5" 2TB drives with RAID 0.
*** The M.2 SSD is not included as standard.