20Tb of Music and not sure where to go from here

[AudioDoctor]

Well, that's a good question.

 

Let me ask you a few. What are you trying to accomplish going forward and what do you want to spend?

[AudioDoctor]

I think in that case, with that budget, and with your desires to simplify and back up, the easiest solution would be to put Roon on your computer, get an external to backup your files, and use a Pi4 as a network endpoint to output via USB to your DAC fits in your budget and simplifies everything.

[AudioDoctor]

NAS options range from something like this which is a DAS (Direct attach Storage) https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/thunderbay-6/thunderbolt-3-raid with RAID capabilities to something like this at the upper end for home and simple usage:  https://iosafe.com/products/1019-nas/ with prices all over the board in-between those two. A mix of the two may be the best way to go.

[AudioDoctor]

A quick pro-tip, Roon makes it extremely simple to find and do something (whatever you want) with the duplicates.

[AudioDoctor]

44 minutes ago, drbarnum said:

Thanks AudioDoctor, That is a great feature and one I did not know about.

 

Daniel

 

You're welcome. I used this functionality of Roon recently, so it was fresh in my mind.