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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bishoptf
Aspirant
Jul 16, 2013
mdgm wrote:
All 6-bay units have a display on the front.

If you want to upgrade the CPU in a system running 4.2.x the best unit to get is a Pro 6. But you replace the CPU at your own risk.

I am looking at pro 6, I understand the risks also, I have been upgrading hacking stuff for many moons. From the pictures when they are off it was hard to tell that the top piece was part of the display, I see that now.

I just enjoy doing stuff like that, I have the ultra 2 and thought it would be nice to have more bays and came across the CPU upgrade, I am wanting to run plex in the future and that would be a good fit if I can find one at the right price, I don't need many of the bells and whistles just something that is reliable running NFS to serve up my data. I may end up just staying with my ultra 2 and spooling up a vm to run plex on, I have a 16 core box that I fold on that I could fire up a VM but thought that this might be something fun to play with. :)
interested
Tutor
Jul 17, 2013
I have one E7600 for sell.

50€ + delivery

mdgm wrote:
All 6-bay units have a display on the front. If you want to upgrade the CPU in a system running 4.2.x the best unit to get is a Pro 6. But you replace the CPU at your own risk.

renedis

Aspirant

Sep 03, 2013

noadvertise wrote:
Hmm, ok well i answered my own question by checking the paths of ever hwmon2 and finding out they are file not found. Whereas all of the hwmon4 paths existed. So the answer is, swap out all hwmon2 for hwmon4. However, you can't just nano or vi the enclosure.db file. Doing so is what caused my odd fan 1 has failed message. I used an sqlite editor, scp'd the enclosure.db file down local, upon viewing the data, I found that its structure had a main list containing all the readynas models. I clicked my readynas model, edited the column "paths", replaced all hwmon2 with hwmon4, saved, and uploaded back to my nas, overwriting the old file (i of course made a backup first).

Once done, the readynas seems to be fully and properly functional now. No more errors and the "health" view properly displays everything.

If anyone gets stuck on this part, let me know, I'll up screenshots and more details.

noadvertise wrote:
Hmm, ok well i answered my own question by checking the paths of ever hwmon2 and finding out they are file not found. Whereas all of the hwmon4 paths existed. So the answer is, swap out all hwmon2 for hwmon4. However, you can't just nano or vi the enclosure.db file. Doing so is what caused my odd fan 1 has failed message. I used an sqlite editor, scp'd the enclosure.db file down local, upon viewing the data, I found that its structure had a main list containing all the readynas models. I clicked my readynas model, edited the column "paths", replaced all hwmon2 with hwmon4, saved, and uploaded back to my nas, overwriting the old file (i of course made a backup first). Once done, the readynas seems to be fully and properly functional now. No more errors and the "health" view properly displays everything. If anyone gets stuck on this part, let me know, I'll up screenshots and more details.

I've changed all hwmon2 to hwmon4 in the enclosure.db.
The Fan fail message doesn't come back anymore but still does not display RPM's, although the status is green/OK
Sadly the voltage messages still occurs :(

renedis
Aspirant
Sep 03, 2013
I've got a lot of help through a TeamViewer session and it works now!
My NAS Pro Business is changed to a NAS Pro 6!
All temp/RPM readings work now!
chirpa
Luminary
Sep 18, 2013
Anyone tried an E5620? I have a few around, curious if they would work.
fastfwd
Virtuoso
Sep 18, 2013
chirpa wrote:
Anyone tried an E5620? I have a few around, curious if they would work.

The Pro's CPU socket has 755 contacts. Intel says the E5620 has 1366.
chirpa
Luminary
Sep 19, 2013
Good catch. Shows how closely I looked at them heh.
Campus
Luminary
Oct 23, 2013
Just wanted to let you know that I was able to upgrade my Pro Business from the slow E2160 to a much faster E7600 (30EUR on ebay) as well. Especially VirtualBox running Zarafa runs much smoother after enabling all VT-x features but also SqueezeCenter is now so much more responsive. I can only recommend this incredible upgrade. Temperature is a little higher when having high load (59/48 vs. 58/38) but lower when idling (56/24 vs. 58/25). My UPS also expects a longer remaining runtime (93 min vs. 88 min) when idling.
menkelis
Tutor
Oct 28, 2013
Thought this link might be useful
http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/CPUs/Intel/Core_2_Duo/index.html
Hibtek
Aspirant
Nov 02, 2013
ok, so I also upgraded a pro to an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz with a small stop at an E6400, both work, ok but now the system health screen reports this

Device Description Status
Disk 1 Seagate ST31000528AS 931 GB , 36 C / 96 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 2 SAMSUNG HD103UJ 931 GB , 33 C / 91 F , Write-cache ON OK
Fan SYS 953 RPM OK
Fan CPU 2083 RPM OK
Temp SYS 54 C / 129 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp CPU 16.5 C / 61 F [Normal 0-60 C / 32-140 F] OK
UPS 1 Not present

is a CPU temp of 17 correct?, the E2160 that was in there ran at 50-55 C

What do you use to create stress on the system?

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