I think this would be more a matter of taste, really. Roon can and does find music that is locally stored and dovetails with other sources like Qobuz and such. If you are looking for something reliable, a single drive system isn't it. Some version of RAID and/or cloud storage (Backblaze, etc) would ensure your album library stays safe.
I run Roon and find it easy to use except it can't send info back to the other services so making playlists and favoriting albums and such is always a two-app process.

Really it amounts to the fact that you need more space and need to consider an upgrade *anyway*. Roon is just an interface and aggregator, in a sense. The hardware part is still something you may need to address not from a music server standpoint but from a safe data archiving standpoint.

TL;DR get a RAID or such NAS and backup on Backblaze or similar. Whether you go the Roon route or not.

*edited to add that I know the MD600 mirrors the drives but it is not the option I'd personally go with for storage*

Last edited by Adam Schaefer; 2024-01-02 22:49.
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