Ordered a Roon Nucleus Plus

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My current setup is based on a pretty powerful Dell Windows10 Pro, I7 quad core processor, 16 gigs of memory, but with some of the other things running on it (like the HP app to print to our all-in-one), that and other things that are running at the time, causes streaming to pause, sometimes freeze.
Back in the day I used an Autonomic MMS-5A server, no problems delivering either Tidal or my library of hi-res AIFF files.  I still have this server, but the app is somewhat "long in the tooth".

hemondoc,
When I'm done with this transition, I'll have my library on a 4tb USB external disk drive, and be able to use the Dell to purchase tunes from HDTracks.com, record CD's and backup the drive to my Google Drive account.  When not doing all that, I'll have it connected to the Nucleus Plus.

Thank you everyone for your kind consideration and help with this.  I hope to receive the unit later this week, need to be out of town for about a week, after that will make the transition and provide an update.

Yes, it may have been a bit cheaper to build something to do the same function, but from what I've read the Roon products are top notch, and for people like me, a computer guy, if I had the time and the desire, I certainly could have saved a few bucks going the route of another piece of hardware, but my time is so limited, I'd rather get a product from the vendor, supported by the vendor, etc.

I ordered the unit on Monday, 5/27, with UPS showing a delivery on Thursday, 5/30, then Friday, 5/31, then Monday, 6/3 (when I'd be out of town, so I had it rescheduled for Tuesday, 6/4), then it somehow got lost in their system, UPS asked me to open a case with Amazon (who did the fulfillment), but after I let them know they had the package in their local warehouse, they opened an internal investigation and found the package, for delivery on Wednesday, 6/5 but somehow that box never made it on the truck, spoke with someone at the local warehouse yesterday (Monday, 6/10) and they located the package, which is now showing as being on the truck for delivery today, Tuesday, 6/11.

I have great luck with both UPS and FedEx, don't mean to bash either of them, but this "Second Day Air" turned out to be "Second Week Air".

Hopefully I'll get the package today and have time tonight to do the swap.

UPS truck arrived a little while ago, but the driver could not locate the package...good thing it was sent requiring a signature...

Got the Nucleus Plus placed on my wall unit, connected up, attached the USB drive with the backup of my Roon database, imported it into the new unit, adjusted some of the settings and checked it out, playing only one song, nice!

The unit doesn't consume that much electricity and doesn't get that warm, so I plan to leave it on all the time, so it can do its thing, with regular backups, updates on the Roon software, etc.

So far, so good!