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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Campus
Luminary
Nov 02, 2013
Seems to be quite low. My E7600 shows around 20.5C but that one runs at 3GHz. Are you sure you really had 50C for the E2160 cpu? Mine had an idle average of 25C.
Hibtek
Aspirant
Nov 02, 2013
I'm pretty sure......although I am getting old now

this is my Ultra 6 + which is in the same room, this is a stock unit, running an E5300,................and I have just looked at that, because that was running at 52-57 and now is running at 30-31!

ok, I think I need more coffee.......and maybe an increase in the old medication!

Device Description Status
Disk 1 Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN164 1863 GB , 40 C / 104 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 2 Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN164 1863 GB , 41 C / 105 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 3 Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 1863 GB , 37 C / 98 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 4 Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 1863 GB , 34 C / 93 F , Write-cache ON OK
Fan SYS 937 RPM OK
Fan CPU 2057 RPM OK
Temp SYS 58 C / 136 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp CPU 31 C / 87 F [Normal 0-85 C / 32-185 F] OK
UPS 1 Not present NA

The Ultra 4 + is running about normal though

Device Description Status
Disk 1 WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 1863 GB , 34 C / 93 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 2 WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 1863 GB , 35 C / 95 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 3 WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 1863 GB , 33 C / 91 F , Write-cache ON OK
Fan SYS 1800 RPM OK
Temp CPU 52 C / 125 F [Normal 0-80 C / 32-176 F] OK
Temp SYS 37 C / 98 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
UPS 1 Not present NA

Any idea how to create load on the cpu?
fastfwd
Virtuoso
Nov 02, 2013
Hibtek wrote:
Any idea how to create load on the cpu?

Open one terminal window per CPU, and in each one type:
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null
Campus
Luminary
Nov 02, 2013
I test my system by compiling my large code base which stress tests the system for about 30 minutes. In addition I downloaded the stress command line utility from https://github.com/cooljeanius/stress-1.0.4 which can also put some load on your cpu.
Hibtek
Aspirant
Nov 02, 2013
:-) I ran the cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null and it only did one processor, never though its as simple as just opening two sessions :-)

Ran it on both, and temp climbed up to 34c, left it for 5 mins and it reached 36c, stopped them and it dropped by 10c by the time I refreshed frontview :-)

Fan did not appear to change from 928 rpm though, but I guess its not getting hot enough to speed it up?

Thanks
Campus
Luminary
Nov 02, 2013
Let it run for at least 30 minutes to get enough heat into the case to really stress test everything. Both fans should run at max speed then.
Hibtek
Aspirant
Nov 02, 2013
Well, after about 30 mins, no fan change and the processor is 36.5!, is there anyway the NAS could read the processor wrong?, a bit late to mention, but I am running RAIDiator 4.2.25

Device Description Status
Disk 1 Seagate ST31000528AS 931 GB , 36 C / 96 F , Write-cache ON OK
Disk 2 SAMSUNG HD103UJ 931 GB , 34 C / 93 F , Write-cache ON OK
Fan SYS 902 RPM OK
Fan CPU 2109 RPM OK
Temp SYS 58 C / 136 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp CPU 36.5 C / 97 F [Normal 0-60 C / 32-140 F] OK
UPS 1 Not present NA

Top
top - 23:18:00 up 22:54, 3 users, load average: 2.09, 2.05, 1.83
Tasks: 88 total, 3 running, 85 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us,100.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2053780k total, 1916756k used, 137024k free, 28432k buffers
Swap: 524272k total, 0k used, 524272k free, 1664440k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1546 root 20 0 3760 496 412 R 100 0.0 30:33.90 cat
1547 root 20 0 3760 496 412 R 100 0.0 30:30.10 cat
29875 root 20 0 2328 1020 788 R 0 0.0 0:02.98 top

I will reapply the firmware and see how it goes
Campus
Luminary
Nov 02, 2013
Here are my numbers:

Idle:
Fan SYS 942 RPM OK
Fan CPU 1622 RPM OK
Temp SYS 56 C [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp CPU 24 C [Normal 0-60 C / 32-140 F] OK

With stress load:
Fan SYS 998 RPM OK
Fan CPU 2960 RPM OK
Temp SYS 59 C [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp CPU 48 C [Normal 0-60 C / 32-140 F] OK
Hibtek
Aspirant
Nov 02, 2013
Thanks for the reply, it makes me feel better that its similar to others, I have not seen a processor at 16c for a long time! :-)

I did the old finger test as well, when I first saw it so low, and the heat sink was cold or cool to the touch.
dhl
Luminary
Dec 06, 2013
Hi All,
Been reading this thread with great interest. I have two ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer systems that were purchased in 2010. We're about to do a complete disk swap with new 4TB drives to get higher capacity and dual redundancy. I'm thinking this might be a great time to breath new life into the systems with a CPU swap as well. Prices on eBay are dirt cheap and since these machines are at the end of their warranty life, I'm temped to go for it!

A few questions:

Seems like motherboard version makes a big difference in what CPUs will work. Is there an easy way to find out what my motherboard rev# is without opening the case?

For a 2010 Pro, is there any consensus on what processor will work best? I have one main goal - maximum speed without increasing temperatures while keeping all stock cooling (fans and heatsinks). My current system typically reports:

Fan SYS 897 RPM
Fan CPU 1917 RPM
Temp SYS 56 C / 132 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F]
Temp CPU 37.5 C / 99 F [Normal 0-85 C / 32-185 F]

I'd like it to stay at this level or cooler after the upgrade.

The E6400, E6600 or E6700 seem solid. Or maybe the E7400 or e7600? Or…?

Our systems have 4GB RAM (HCL compatible) and are running the latest BIOS (07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0)

Any advice/recommendations/gotchas?

Thanks!

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