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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fastfwd
Virtuoso
Mar 06, 2013
dsm1212 wrote:
Well, it seems like hdparm is not very accurate.

Yeah. The throughput tests should be run only when the system is idle, and they should be run a few times; the fastest result is the most accurate one. I usually do a series of ten runs over a couple minutes, and I often see a 2:1 range of speeds.

dsm1212 wrote:
By the way fastfwd, what os rev are you running? I'm running 4.2.21.

4.2.22, with the 07/26/2010 BIOS (which Netgear calls 2.0 and AMI calls 8.14).
bzhpedro
Aspirant
Mar 08, 2013
Hi guys,

Actually I have the original ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition (bought in 2009) with this bios revision :
07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0 (Thanks to chirpa's bios_update addon).

It's actually running a Core 2 Duo E6700 @2.66GHz and 2x2Gigs DDR2 PC6400 Crucial and I would like to know if i can upgrade the CPU, because I find that the E6700 is powerful but hot.

Thank you

dsm1212 wrote:
Well, it seems like hdparm is not very accurate.

dsm1212 wrote:
By the way fastfwd, what os rev are you running? I'm running 4.2.21.

fastfwd

Virtuoso

Mar 08, 2013

bzhpedro wrote:
I have the original ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition (bought in 2009) with this bios revision :
07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0 (Thanks to chirpa's bios_update addon).

It's actually running a Core 2 Duo E6700 @2.66GHz and 2x2Gigs DDR2 PC6400 Crucial and I would like to know if i can upgrade the CPU, because I find that the E6700 is powerful but hot.

bzhpedro wrote:
I have the original ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition (bought in 2009) with this bios revision : 07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0 (Thanks to chirpa's bios_update addon). It's actually running a Core 2 Duo E6700 @2.66GHz and 2x2Gigs DDR2 PC6400 Crucial and I would like to know if i can upgrade the CPU, because I find that the E6700 is powerful but hot.

Do you happen to remember your processor's SSPEC number? The SL9S7's idle current consumption is approximately double that of the SL9ZF, and since your processor spends most of its time idle, this is a significant factor in chip temperature. If you have an SL9S7, swapping it for an SL9ZF would probably help a lot.

One data point, possibly helpful: In my Pro Pioneer, a 2.4GHz E6600 SL9ZL (with the same low-power optimizations as the E6700 SL9ZF), runs cooler than the standard 1.8GHz E2160.

Freek1
Aspirant
Mar 11, 2013
Hi guys,

I'm thinking of getting a ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition, RNDP6610.
I want to upgrade the CPU in this puppy, so I've browsed trough the topic and I've seen various CPU models being mentioned. However I am unsure which ones are compatible with the RNDP6610...
Could someone please tell me which CPU models are compatible with the RNDP6610?
I am looking to do some 'heavy' transcoding, so I'm looking at all CPU power that I can get.

Thanks!

soremaniac

Aspirant

Mar 11, 2013

it always depends on your Board Version, and the Firmware. I have a first Gen. ReadyNAS Business and the best what i can use in it is a Intel E6600 (2x 2.6 GHz / 4 Cache / Bus 1066MHz). In a second ReadyNAS PRO Business, but much newer, a Intel Q6600 (4x 2.6 GHz / 8 Cache / Bus 1066MHz) is runing just perfekt AND COOLER! Always check the TEMP on your CPU under full load.

But you cut put practically any CPU that fits this Profile: 1.) the Socket LGA775 2.) Busspeed max. 1066MHz
and i think in some Mainbordversions only Max TDP 65W but this is variable you have to find out.
(as far i found out, more Cache on the CPU is better than more GHz)

Like these
E6600 or E6700 (runs hotter)
http://ark.intel.com/products/27251/Int ... 66-MHz-FSB

some say the E7600 is the fastes
http://ark.intel.com/products/41495/Int ... 66-MHz-FSB

or Q6600 (i think the Best)
http://ark.intel.com/products/29765/Int ... 66-MHz-FSB

or Q6700 (runs hotter)
http://ark.intel.com/products/30790/Int ... 66-MHz-FSB

Oder ev. X6800 (runs hotter)
http://ark.intel.com/products/27258/Int ... 66-MHz-FSB

or ev. QX6700 (runs hotter)
http://ark.intel.com/products/28028/Int ... 66-MHz-FSB

and don't forget:

chirpa wrote:
There may be even newer BIOS now, but I don't work there anymore to know that.

You can try running this add-on (install in FrontView, don't need USB boot anymore), which will update to the latest I had at the time: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons ... .5-x86.bin (Link Fixed)

That v0.5 add-on provides these BIOS versions:
Ultra2/ReadyNAS-ProUltra2 (1102/v1.
Ultra4/ReadyNAS-NVX-V2 (0823/v1.1)
Ultra6/FLAME6-2 (0610/v1.1)
Pro(6)/FLAME6-MB (0726/v2.0)

Freek1

Aspirant

Mar 11, 2013

Thanks for your quick and detailed reply!

I'm not sure what version the ReadyNas Business Pro I am planning to buy is, but I do know that it is 4 years old.

soremaniac wrote:
it always depends on your Board Version, and the Firmware. I have a first Gen. ReadyNAS Business and the best what i can use in it is a Intel E6600 (2x 2.6 GHz / 4 Cache / Bus 1066MHz). In a second ReadyNAS PRO Business, but much newer, a Intel Q6600 (4x 2.6 GHz / 8 Cache / Bus 1066MHz) is runing just perfekt AND COOLER! Always check the TEMP on your CPU under full load.

soremaniac wrote:
it always depends on your Board Version, and the Firmware. I have a first Gen. ReadyNAS Business and the best what i can use in it is a Intel E6600 (2x 2.6 GHz / 4 Cache / Bus 1066MHz). In a second ReadyNAS PRO Business, but much newer, a Intel Q6600 (4x 2.6 GHz / 8 Cache / Bus 1066MHz) is runing just perfekt AND COOLER! Always check the TEMP on your CPU under full load.

So if I understand it correctly, the first Gen does not support quad-core CPUs but your second gen supports quadcore CPUs, right?
I am mainly interested in the E7600 because it's TDP is the same as the original CPU and should suffice for my needs.

The link in the last quote to he BIOS is broken

Thanks!

bzhpedro

Aspirant

Mar 11, 2013

fastfwd wrote:
bzhpedro wrote:
I have the original ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition (bought in 2009) with this bios revision :
07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0 (Thanks to chirpa's bios_update addon).

It's actually running a Core 2 Duo E6700 @2.66GHz and 2x2Gigs DDR2 PC6400 Crucial and I would like to know if i can upgrade the CPU, because I find that the E6700 is powerful but hot.

Do you happen to remember your processor's SSPEC number? The SL9S7's idle current consumption is approximately double that of the SL9ZF, and since your processor spends most of its time idle, this is a significant factor in chip temperature. If you have an SL9S7, swapping it for an SL9ZF would probably help a lot.

One data point, possibly helpful: In my Pro Pioneer, a 2.4GHz E6600 SL9ZL (with the same low-power optimizations as the E6700 SL9ZF), runs cooler than the standard 1.8GHz E2160.

Thank you for your answer but I am already with a SL9ZF ;-)
But I am using transcoding a lot with AirVideo for streaming on my iPad and iPhone.

chirpa
Luminary
Mar 11, 2013
When I did my CPU swap, I went from an E2160 to E6400. The same clock speed, but has VT-d and more cache. Was using it for AirVideo transcoding and VirtualBox use. I believe the E6400 is what the 3200 came with at one point.
bzhpedro
Aspirant
Mar 11, 2013
It's possible. I really like the Pro with the E6700 but I do not find a better cooler which can fit in the ReadyNAS to cool this great CPU the way it should be cooled.
Chirpa, do you have any idea if a third party cooler could fit ?

Thank you
chirpa
Luminary
Mar 11, 2013
Ya, but has to be the right low profile to fit in the case. Thought I saw someone add a larger one, and void warranty by chopping up the side panel.. Thread somewhere?

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