Hi all,Does anyone know what FSB speeds the ReadyNAS Pro motherboard supports.I have three "servers" that I'm trying to consolidate. I figured that the file server (which is actually the slowest machine) would be replaced by the NAS but I'm actually trying to merge some other services onto the box which much luck so far..One feature I'm working on porting is my Tivo transcoder. Essentially I have a small system that pulls programs off my Tivo, transcodes them and uploads (via WiFi/ethernet) to my portable media player. It means when I get home my media player syncs with my now-playing list so I can watch TV on the train too and from work. Since I work miles and miles away, I don't have time to watch TV at home so it's the only way I can watch TV..I have the package working on the NAS, and I'm working on the integration with the front end (like managing black-lists and so on). I'd like to bump the speed of the processor but obivously the newer energy efficient <65W intel chips all seem to be 1333MHz FSB. Is this supported on this NAS? I know the warranty is void with this type of fiddling, but that is a risk I'm happy to take.. I also understand you wouldn't recommend an upgrade like this, but I would really like to know if it were possible..I'll make all the code (mplayer is the driver behind the transcoding) available to anyone if interested.. but it is important to realise this is a Series 1 Tivo and an Archos 705/605 media player, not a common combination..

flip68 - I happened to find this link the other day and had it bookmarked... https://community.netgear.com/t5/Community-Add-ons/How-to-update-BIOS-w-OS6-x-installed/m-p/960570#U960570 I haven't tried this personally - as with all things of the internet - proceed with caution.

It may work. We are not going to endorse any CPU mods, and of course, your warranty is at risk by doing that modification.I am the one running an E6300 in my personal system at home. It has worked for me, but as always, YMMV (your mileage may vary). Don't need a kernel re-compile. I have VirtualBox running on mine.

Ok. I happened to mention the upgrade to someone who was also after an upgrade.. Long and short, I ended up with an E6700 cpu. I've run the same hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c tests and there's a marginal improvement.. Stock Pro with E2160 (1.8GHz) and 1GB of 667MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 1890 MB in 2.00 seconds = 945.13 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 510 MB in 3.00 seconds = 170.11 MB/secPro with E6600 (2.4GHz) and 4GB of 800MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 9052 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4533.83 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 628 MB in 3.00 seconds = 208.99 MB/secPro with E6700 (2.66GHz) and 4GB of 800MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 10132 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5075.66 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 622 MB in 3.00 seconds = 207.27 MB/secLooks like IO is more of a problem and getting anything more than about 208MB/s out of the RAID6 array is going to be hard.. Transcoding is noticably faster though.. not that I have any real stats to go on yet.. Still, if I'm right and this is the fastest CPU you can put in a Pro, I am more than happy.. it is BLISTERINGLY fast! If anyone wants to make me an offer for a E6600 2.4GHz chip, feel free :)

cpitchford wrote:If anyone wants to make me an offer for a E6600 2.4GHz chip, feel free :) $20 :)

For my system:temp1=60temp2=36fan1=1548fan2=1776Under regular load, while using my VirtualBox VM.top - 13:15:00 up 22 days, 12:46, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.23, 0.18Tasks: 108 total, 1 running, 107 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombieCpu(s): 1.7%us, 8.2%sy, 1.3%ni, 88.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%stMem: 2072432k total, 1986916k used, 85516k free, 14056k buffersSwap: 1048536k total, 104k used, 1048432k free, 683368k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3037 root 20 0 1109m 1.1g 30m S 34 53.6 11415:10 VBoxHeadless 2403 root 20 0 48992 11m 1720 S 4 0.6 673:17.98 motion 2345 root 20 0 10132 8696 1016 S 0 0.4 26:14.54 wastesrv 2366 store 21 1 73028 30m 5312 S 0 1.5 213:19.99 bt

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bogie1
Guide
Oct 17, 2009
Just found this thread whilst searching and thought Id add my experiences, im a bit of an habitual tinkerer and overclocker :)

I upgraded from my trusty old NV+ (2 years old) to a Pro Pioneer a few months back, on a quest for more power as it gets used more and more at home for CPU intensive stuff (mostly NZB download related LOL, and media streaming)

Anyway I picked up an Intel E6600 2.4Ghz Core 2 DUO cheap off Ebay and 4GB RAM, 10 mins later was up and running 24 x 7, and its been fine now for over a month - with ambient temps in my home office of 23-24deg C occasionally, the CPU isnt going above 55-60degc (as reported in frontview)

Im running the stock readynas HSF, I just cleaned the thermal paste off it and put some new arctic silver on, and that was it.

Performance wise, I havnt really seen big increases in read/writes etc, but faster times when doing CPU reliant stuff (processing files, unzipping etc) and much even more capability on multi-tasking than before

So for a £50 CPU and £35 of RAM, Im happy ive maxxed it out to its full potential :)
Tom_Sawyer
Aspirant
Dec 19, 2009
I have a spare E7400, I wonder if it's worth a shot at seeing if it works in a RNP? I'm curious if nothing else. I've installed the E7400 in a Qnap TS-509 with great results (the Intel HSF even fit in it!). I recently acquired a RNP Pioneer at a nice price so decided to move to that for my primary NAS and sack off the TS-509. Now I have this CPU sitting here... tempting me.. :wink: Sounds like it won't work though if the chipset in the RNP is the one people are thinking... looks like the E6600 is the highest CPU that chipset supports. I just wonder if the E7400 might just work even though it's not on the list. It is certainly a low wattage CPU, can't imagine it would break anything, perhaps just not boot/post.

If I decide to do anything, I'll probably just pick up an E6600, they are cheap enough and I can recoup the cost by selling my E7400.
chal2les
Aspirant
Dec 20, 2009
I have a k45 and it supports E6600/E6700, but does not support 1333 fsb . Even though this was the case. I was able to put in a E8400, and it would boot up(had to skip the warning that it was running at a lower freq(I disable check in the bios and it booted perfectly).

The end result that the CPU ran alot cooler and at the same speed.

Anyone tried 1333 fsb yet?
MikeMcr1
Aspirant
Feb 01, 2010
cpitchford wrote:
Was looking at the ThermalTake MeOrb heatsink.. it is 47mm high :) That E6700 might yet work

Did you try the ThermalTake MeOrb heatsink? Did it fit?
MikeMcr1
Aspirant
Feb 06, 2010
Hmm, I notice Intel has confused matters by replacing the E6600 with another E6600 that runs at 3.06 GHz! It uses a smaller die size of 45 nm.

http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=42807,27250,

Since it shares the same name, would you expect it to be as compatible as the "old" 2.40 GHz E6600?

cpitchford wrote:
Was looking at the ThermalTake MeOrb heatsink.. it is 47mm high :) That E6700 might yet work

super_poussin

Virtuoso

Feb 28, 2010

my unit with stock cpu

Skywalker:/Develop/CACTIv2# iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local 192.168.101.21 port 5001 connected with 192.168.101.69 port 4890
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 286 MBytes 239 Mbits/sec

Skywalker:/Develop/CACTIv2# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c

/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 2124 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1061.85 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 614 MB in 3.01 seconds = 204.26 MB/sec

beisser1

Tutor

Mar 06, 2010

super-poussin wrote:
my unit with stock cpu

Skywalker:/Develop/CACTIv2# iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local 192.168.101.21 port 5001 connected with 192.168.101.69 port 4890
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 286 MBytes 239 Mbits/sec

Skywalker:/Develop/CACTIv2# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c

/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 2124 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1061.85 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 614 MB in 3.01 seconds = 204.26 MB/sec

thats like uber slow.

here are my results:

ReadyNAS-Pro:~# iperf -s
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  4] local 192.168.0.111 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.91 port 49599
[  5] local 192.168.0.111 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.91 port 49600
[  6] local 192.168.0.111 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.91 port 49601
[  7] local 192.168.0.111 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.91 port 49602
[  7]  0.0-10.0 sec    262 MBytes    220 Mbits/sec
[  4]  0.0-10.0 sec    283 MBytes    237 Mbits/sec
[  5]  0.0-10.0 sec    279 MBytes    234 Mbits/sec
[  6]  0.0-10.0 sec    280 MBytes    235 Mbits/sec
[SUM]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.08 GBytes    926 Mbits/sec

ReadyNAS-Pro:~# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c

/dev/c/c:
 Timing cached reads:   1724 MB in  2.00 seconds = 862.13 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  730 MB in  3.00 seconds = 243.30 MB/sec
ReadyNAS-Pro:~# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c

my iperf is probably faster because i used the option -P4 which spawns 4 parallel streams instead of just one.

i havent got a clue why the hdparm speeds differ so much from yours though.

super_poussin
Virtuoso
Mar 06, 2010
Hi Beisser

which teaming mode are you using ?

super_poussin

Virtuoso

Mar 06, 2010

ftom nas to nas :

jedi:~# iperf -c 192.168.101.21 -P4
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.101.21, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 73.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 6] local 192.168.101.50 port 55057 connected with 192.168.101.21 port 5001
[ 4] local 192.168.101.50 port 55055 connected with 192.168.101.21 port 5001
[ 3] local 192.168.101.50 port 55054 connected with 192.168.101.21 port 5001
[ 5] local 192.168.101.50 port 55056 connected with 192.168.101.21 port 5001
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 395 MBytes 331 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 343 MBytes 287 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 0.0-10.0 sec 281 MBytes 235 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 173 MBytes 145 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 0.0-10.1 sec 1.16 GBytes 994 Mbits/sec
jedi:~#

super_poussin

Virtuoso

Mar 06, 2010

changing the cpu

jedi:~# iperf -c 192.168.101.21 -P4
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.101.21, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 73.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 6] local 192.168.101.50 port 43391 connected with 192.168.101.21 port 5001
[ 3] local 192.168.101.50 port 43388 connected with 192.168.101.21 port 5001
[ 4] local 192.168.101.50 port 43389 connected with 192.168.101.21 port 5001
[ 5] local 192.168.101.50 port 43390 connected with 192.168.101.21 port 5001
[ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 476 MBytes 398 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 52.3 MBytes 43.5 Mbits/sec
[ 6] 0.0-10.1 sec 454 MBytes 377 Mbits/sec
[ 3] 0.0-10.3 sec 251 MBytes 205 Mbits/sec
[SUM] 0.0-10.3 sec 1.20 GBytes 1.01 Gbits/sec

Skywalker:~# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c

/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 7370 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3690.37 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 710 MB in 3.00 seconds = 236.50 MB/sec
Skywalker:~#

Skywalker:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2394.000
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflus h dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_g ood pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow
bogomips : 4788.16
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2394.000
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflus h dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_g ood pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow
bogomips : 8616.90
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

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