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
Dec 06, 2013
dhl wrote:
I have one main goal - maximum speed without increasing temperatures while keeping all stock cooling (fans and heatsinks).

E6600 will give you that, especially if you get the right S-Spec number (SL9ZL, not SL9S8).
dhl
Luminary
Dec 06, 2013
fastfwd wrote:
E6600 will give you that, especially if you get the right S-Spec number (SL9ZL, not SL9S8).

Great, I'm seeing a bunch of them on eBay, many >$20 :D

So is this essentially a plug and play operation - i.e. no firmware hacks or cooling mods needed, just swap and go?
dsm1212
Apprentice
Dec 06, 2013
Have some fresh thermal paste on hand and while you are in there blow out the fan thoroughly. I actually saw my temps drop a bit but I think it was because of the cleaning :-). I'm using an e7600 I bought on ebay. That processor was frequently removed from a mac and updated so there are quite a few used around.

steve
dhl
Luminary
Dec 06, 2013
@dsm1212

Yes, will do on the thermal paste. Really great that you're seeing *cooler* temps! Do you know the S-Spec number number for your e7600? Really great that you're seeing *cooler* temps!
dsm1212
Apprentice
Dec 07, 2013
SLGTD was the E7600 spec variant. My results are on page 10 of this topic. Wasn't hugely cooler, about 3 degrees.
spiderman1
Guide
Dec 22, 2013
Hi guys,

I would like to do a cpu mod on my Readynas Pro Business Edition (BIOS 07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0). Sticker on mobo is FA5.

Has anyone tried a q6600 and e7600? Which one should I opt for? I would like to do video transcoding using Plex or AirVideo preferably.

Thanks.
sander11
Aspirant
Dec 29, 2013
I just took the plunge and upgraded (again!) to a q6600 from an original upgrade to an e7400. After upgrading the enclosure.db it appears to be working normally, albeit a little hotter and noisier than it did before.

I'm still digging around to see if this is something where I messed up somewhere or this is the new normal. I was initially very reticent about the procedure, but modern cpu switching is pretty painless. From my experience the e series upgrade is generally a drop in which will run cooler, whereas the q chip requires editing some configuration files and, so far, does run hotter.
spiderman1
Guide
Dec 30, 2013
How is the overall performance of the q6600 in terms of file copying and transcoding of 1080p movies?

Thanks
spiderman1
Guide
Jan 08, 2014
I have now upgraded my Readynas Pro with a Q6600 and it screams. I can transcode blu-ray at 5120 kbits/s using the Air Video without any jittering or interruptions whatsoever.

Here are how my temp and fan readings while idle:

Fan SYS 856 RPM OK
Fan CPU 1854 RPM OK
Temp SYS 54 C / 129 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp CPU 27 C / 80 F [Normal 0-85 C / 32-185 F] OK

Here are how my temp and fan readings while transcoding one stream at 5120:

Fan SYS 922 RPM OK
Fan CPU 3182 RPM OK
Temp SYS 54 C / 129 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp CPU 45 C / 113 F [Normal 0-85 C / 32-185 F] OK

hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c

/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 8410 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4211.72 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1208 MB in 3.00 seconds = 402.16 MB/sec

HTOP

1 [||||||||||||||||############################96.7%] Tasks: 64, 56 thr; 6 running
2 [||||||||||||||||||||||||||##################91.4%] Load average: 3.36 1.19 0.89
3 [||||||||||||||##############################94.0%] Uptime: 03:24:04
4 [||||||||||||||||||||||||####################96.7%]
Mem[|||||||||||||||#**********************1164/3956MB]
Swp[ 0/2047MB]

I hope this helps any of you who are toying with the idea of upgrading your Readynas Pro to a Q6600. For $70 from ebay, it's sweet indeed!

dhl wrote:
I have one main goal - maximum speed without increasing temperatures while keeping all stock cooling (fans and heatsinks).

fastfwd wrote:
E6600 will give you that, especially if you get the right S-Spec number (SL9ZL, not SL9S8).

dhl

Luminary

Jan 12, 2014

Well that was easy! :D

Dropped in a E6700 SL9ZF purchased on eBay for $23. Took about 2 minutes (I spent more time cleaning the enclosure).

BEFORE CPU:

ReadyNAS_Pro:/# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 15
model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2160  @ 1.80GHz
stepping	: 13
cpu MHz		: 1795.269
cache size	: 1024 KB

AFTER CPU:

ReadyNAS_Pro:/# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 15
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6700  @ 2.66GHz
stepping	: 6
cpu MHz		: 2660.311
cache size	: 4096 KB

BEFORE - timed reads (best of 10)

ReadyNAS_Pro:/# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c

/dev/c/c:
 Timing cached reads:   2520 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1260.87 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 396 MB in  3.00 seconds = 131.91 MB/sec

AFTER - timed reads (best of 10)

ReadyNAS_Pro:/# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c

/dev/c/c:
 Timing cached reads:   9502 MB in  2.00 seconds = 4759.45 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 436 MB in  3.03 seconds = 143.73 MB/sec

BEFORE - temperatures and fans

Fan SYS	897 RPM		OK
Fan CPU	1971 RPM		OK
Temp SYS	56 C / 132 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F]		OK
Temp CPU	38.5 C / 101 F [Normal 0-85 C / 32-185 F]		OK

AFTER - temperatures and fans

Fan SYS	932 RPM		OK
Fan CPU	2083 RPM		OK
Temp SYS	56 C / 132 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F]		OK
Temp CPU	27 C / 80 F [Normal 0-85 C / 32-185 F]		OK

Maybe it's my imagination but Frontview seems much snappier. So does connecting and viewing files in the Finder.

Great upgrade - totally worth it and recommended! Thanks everyone, for your help! :woot:

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