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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fbmachines
Guide
Apr 11, 2013
I took the plunge and and popped an E7600 (SLGTD) in my main Pro6. I'm using the stock cooler and the idle & stressed temperatures seem to be identical to the original CPU. I used IC Diamond thermal paste. This was a beta Pro6 unit that was updated to the linked firmware. I'll pull the cover again to check board revision.

Plex transcoding is smooth as butter with everything I've thrown at it.

Best $45 upgrade IMHO.
sander11
Aspirant
Apr 11, 2013
Me too. After more research I settled on the E7400 SLGW3. The CPU load on the NAS and VMs are incredibly low all the time and it is running a little cooler.

I was a little intimidated reading through the early parts of this thread, but it really was only 6 screws and some thermal paste. Pretty painless.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread, there's no way I would have even considered this without all the research that came before.
fbmachines
Guide
Apr 14, 2013
My Pro6 board is a FLAME6 v1.1.

Now that the IC Diamond paste has had a chance to cure, it looks like on average my E7600 runs 1-2 degrees Celsius cooler than the stock CPU.
dbreiny1
Aspirant
Apr 15, 2013
I also took the plunge and and replaced the E5300 in a Pro 6 with an E7600 (SLGTD). I'm too an using the stock cooler and the idle as well as pegged at 100% (intentionally) temperatures seem to be really close to the stock CPU (even slightly cooler). I used Arctic Silver 5 heat sink compound as I have always had good luck with it in the past.

This really gave Plex new life. Even the screens while browsing are faster and more responsive, and anything that needs to be transcoded starts within a few seconds.

Very happy with the new CPU ($49.00).
soremaniac
Aspirant
Apr 22, 2013
Choices of CPU's

I was looking on the new Intel ARK App for iPhone and iPad for CPU's and found These. They 1066MHz shut all work in the Pro.

http://ark.intel.com/
- E7600 / 3 MB / 3.06 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB bis E7200 / 3 MB / 2.53 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB
- E6700 / 4 MB / 2.66 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB bis E6600 / 4 MB / 2.40 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB
- Q6700 / 4 MB / 2.66 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB bis Q6600 / 8 MB / 2.40 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB
- X6800 / 4 MB / 2.93 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB
- QX6800 / 8 MB / 2.93 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB bis QX6700 / 8 MB / 2.66 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB

I tried the E7600, E6600, Q6600 and i am Shopping around for a X6800 and QX6800 (Hard to find).

And i also looking for These CPU's, QX9655 or the Q9550S to trie Out :-) i will Post my Feedback to them.
- QX9650 / 12 MB / 3.00 GHz / 1333 MHz FSB
- Q9450 / 12 MB / 2.66 GHz / 1333 MHz FSB
- Q9550S / 12MB / 2.83 GHz 1333 MHz FSB (just 65W!)
dsm1212
Apprentice
Apr 22, 2013
In case you haven't read this whole thread, watch the power consumption on some of those. There is limited airflow in the box. That's why many of us settled on E7600. It actually seems to run a little cooler than the stock cpu.

steve
soremaniac
Aspirant
Apr 22, 2013
yes thanks, until now these tree here E7600, E6600, Q6600 are runing cooler as the stock CPU with the Stock Fan. In my older Pro with the Q6600 makes some strange warings (i posted it earlyer in this thred). And yes thats why i whant to find out what is the best CPU (AirFlow vs Speed).

Mike
karex
Aspirant
Apr 22, 2013
Hi Mike,
My Pro with the Q6600 makes warnings too. Do you have some solution? Thanks, Karel

soremaniac

Aspirant

Apr 22, 2013

karex wrote:
Hi Mike,
My Pro with the Q6600 makes warnings too. Do you have some solution? Thanks, Karel

karex wrote:
Hi Mike, My Pro with the Q6600 makes warnings too. Do you have some solution? Thanks, Karel

is it like these here?
https://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=29284&start=150#p387419

Than you have to do this (like chirpa says):
https://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=29284&start=150#p387444

chirpa wrote:
On boot up, RAIDiator firmware looks at the system type, and builds a layout for monitor_enclosure (health check program, adjusts fans, sends alerts). Easiest way to deal with your logs is to modify that layout (saved in ramdisk) and restart moitor_enclosure. I haven't tested this out, but it should hopefully work, maybe needing a few tweaks:
# cat /etc/rc2.d/S02readynas_enclosure
 #!/bin/bash
 sed '/^vol/d' /ramfs/enclosure.cfg > /tmp/enc.$$$
 mv /tmp/enc.$$$ /ramfs/enclosure.cfg
 killall monitor_enclosure
 sleep 1
 /frontview/bin/monitor_enclosure
This removes the voltage lines from the layout, then restarts the service. So it won't know to read the voltages, causing logs/email alerts. If you look at /ramfs/enclosure.cfg, you can also see references for the temp/fan sensors.

I had to do a similar boot script for my retro-fitted Repertoire. I replaced the Sparc board with x86 (Ultra4 board). Since the Repertoire chassis has no fans, the system would complain that the fan has failed. The script I used there would tell the system there was no fans to monitor (over the default Ultra4 layout), so no more alerts would occur.

chirpa wrote:
On boot up, RAIDiator firmware looks at the system type, and builds a layout for monitor_enclosure (health check program, adjusts fans, sends alerts). Easiest way to deal with your logs is to modify that layout (saved in ramdisk) and restart moitor_enclosure. I haven't tested this out, but it should hopefully work, maybe needing a few tweaks: # cat /etc/rc2.d/S02readynas_enclosure #!/bin/bash sed '/^vol/d' /ramfs/enclosure.cfg > /tmp/enc.$$$ mv /tmp/enc.$$$ /ramfs/enclosure.cfg killall monitor_enclosure sleep 1 /frontview/bin/monitor_enclosure This removes the voltage lines from the layout, then restarts the service. So it won't know to read the voltages, causing logs/email alerts. If you look at /ramfs/enclosure.cfg, you can also see references for the temp/fan sensors. I had to do a similar boot script for my retro-fitted Repertoire. I replaced the Sparc board with x86 (Ultra4 board). Since the Repertoire chassis has no fans, the system would complain that the fan has failed. The script I used there would tell the system there was no fans to monitor (over the default Ultra4 layout), so no more alerts would occur.

Hope that helped
Mike

kboudre
Aspirant
Apr 24, 2013
Just upgraded my first edition Readynas business edition to a E6700 SL9ZF without any issues. Thanks for the helpfully advise.

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