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More on CPU specs of the ReadyNAS Pro
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..
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..
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- 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
That v0.5 add-on provides these BIOS versions:- Ultra2/ReadyNAS-ProUltra2 (1102/v1.8)
- Ultra4/ReadyNAS-NVX-V2 (0823/v1.1)
- Ultra6/FLAME6-2 (0610/v1.1)
- Pro(6)/FLAME6-MB (0726/v2.0)
- Thanks for that update! I just got a 7500 from ebay. This should definitely help with plex streaming to multiple devices and overall snappiness. Thanks again.
- Hopefully it works.
There are at least 6+ hardware revisions of the Pro (aka NV6) board. The earlier ones may not have the physical circuitry to handle the later CPUs. So even a BIOS update is not guarantee that new CPUs will work. - It works! Went from stock E2160 with 1GB DDR2 to a E7500 and 4GB DDR2. Speeds before:
snorlax:~# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c
/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 2034 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1017.25 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 572 MB in 3.00 seconds = 190.54 MB/sec
and speeds after the upgrade
snorlax:~# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c
/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 3990 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1996.06 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 946 MB in 3.00 seconds = 315.31 MB/sec
Looks good to me! Thanks for your help! I think my mainboard was Flame6 v1.1 - Nice! Btw, you could goto 8GB ram also.
- You're results are little better than mine with an e7600 and 8gb of ram. I'm getting 1900MB/s for cached reads. Do you have 7200RPM drives? I think I bought at least one drive that is only 5400RPM.
BTW if anyone knows how to check the actual memory speed I'd like to know. I tried installing lshw and dmidecode but both show unknown. The DIMM's I'm using the Patriot models that some others here listed and it does support 1066Mhz.
I can't complain though, I get pretty much the most I can get out of a 1Gb/s when accessing the NAS network (100-110MB/s reads and 80-90MB/s writes using large files).
steve - All those numbers seem low to me. Are you sure you ran the tests while the NAS was otherwise idle? Also, did you run the tests a few times? There can be significant run-to-run variation in the results.
Here's the best result from ten runs on my system:
ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer
CPU: 2.4GHz E6600 SL9ZL
RAM: 8GB
Drives: 2 x ST2000DM001, 2 x ST3000DM001nas1:/etc/default# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c
/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 8894 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4454.85 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1234 MB in 3.00 seconds = 411.04 MB/sec - I can't get near that. You definitely have 7200 RPM drives I see. Maybe that's the difference. I have all the performance features enabled in Frontview since I have a UPS, do you? Or maybe our memory is still running at 800Mhz, but I can't find a way to tell.
steve dsm1212 wrote: You definitely have 7200 RPM drives I see. Maybe that's the difference.
It might explain the difference in the results of the buffered-read test, but the cached-read test isn't affected by drive speed. Your processor is faster than mine, right? And your memory should be running at least as fast as mine, so I don't know why my throughput is apparently twice as high as yours.I have all the performance features enabled in Frontview since I have a UPS, do you?
Yes.Or maybe our memory is still running at 800Mhz, but I can't find a way to tell.
dmidecode shows "unknown" for my memory speed, so I can't find a way either...- Are your four drives in dual redundancy? Mine are so it's really a three drive config. Maybe a drive cache size difference?
Steve
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