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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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- Good results. I've never gotten to the bottom of why my e7600 system does so poorly at the hdparm test. I'm getting:
# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c
/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 3692 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1846.18 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: ^[[A776 MB in 3.01 seconds = 258.22 MB/sec
warehouse6:/c/home/admin# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c
I'm definitely using inexpensive 4TB drives (unsupported) but it seems like these results are off by 2-3x. Not that I'm complaining. I've got the box doing a lot of stuff and having no issues. Just seems like something is wrong. No uncorrectable reads on any drives or errors in /var/log. System looks mostly idle when I ran the above command several times. It makes me wonder if have a performance setting I should change. I think I have them all enabled in frontview (I've got a ups). Any suggestions?
steve - Well,
I have a E7600 now with this stats:processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7600 @ 3.06GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 3059.458
cache size : 3072 KB
and/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 3824 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1912.23 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1330 MB in 3.00 seconds = 442.90 MB/sec
I can't complain but if you find some tweaks please let me know. - Yeah, the variation from machine to machine is pretty odd; dsm1212 and I discussed that briefly on pages 10 and 11 of this thread.
My CPU is still a 2.4GHz E6600:NAS1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 1596.000
cache size : 4096 KB
And my current speeds (best cached of 10 and best direct of 10 shown below) are still higher than those reported for Pros with 3GHz E7600 CPUs:NAS1:~# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c
/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 8154 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4086.48 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1500 MB in 3.00 seconds = 499.84 MB/sec
NAS1:~# hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c
/dev/c/c:
Timing cached reads: 7380 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3697.88 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1606 MB in 3.00 seconds = 535.15 MB/sec - Feel like I've done this before...
It's tempting to think it must be something with the drives, but the first result from hdparm is just reading from disk cache in memory. That leads me to think my memory might be running slow and then when I tried to investigate that I couldn't find any way to get the machine to tell me the speed the memory was running at. I still think it could be an issue with memory speed. It's the 8GB Patriot DIMM that a number of others here bought, but I'm suspicious.
steve - There are some differences in our disk configuration so it's the first numbers for "Timing cached reads" that I'm more interested in. I downloaded some software called ramspeed and it shows my system getting about the same 4GB/s that fastfwd gets from hdparm. Near as I can tell that seems to be the right number for 800MHz DDR2. So whatever is going on in my system it seems to be specific to running hdparm.
- Just wanted to add that i upgraded my RNDP600E (ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer) with an E7600 CPU.
Thanks to this thread all went well !!
:) - I just installed a E7600 in my Ready-NAS PRO.
Simple, fast, and the best $20.00 upgrade. - I haven't been keeping up on the OS 6 thread to see if anyone has upgraded to OS6 after replacing the cpu and if the unsupported OS6 is as hackable as the older OSes. I wouldn't mind being on a newer kernel where I could use KVM.
Of course the other deal breaker is the factory reset, but that sounds unavoidable.
OS6 with replaced cpus and maybe fans, would be the ultimate frankenas! I haven't been keeping up on the OS 6 thread to see if anyone has upgraded to OS6 after replacing the cpu and if the unsupported OS6 is as hackable as the older OSes. I wouldn't mind being on a newer kernel where I could use KVM.
Some certainly have and I think I'm about to. I only went to the E6600 since I already had one I had pulled from a Windoze machine that I went quad on, but I'm about to get another and may go to E6700. I don't do transcoding, so the E6600 was more than enough boost for me.
My take on OS6 is that it's more hackable because it's based on a more up-to-date kernel, so there is more that's compatible. I'm not a Linux guru and have stuck mostly with the pre-compiled install packages for RAIDiator, so I'm going in deeper with OS6.- I recently picked up a cheap Pro Business to finally replace two aging NV+ boxes. E7600 swap plus 4GB mem (this week) really brought the box to life. I've been reading the OS6 threads and I'm not sure if I want to jump on that bandwagon yet ... I'm a programmer and dont mind porting (or back porting) packages, etc - but I need the core to be solid and my data safe.
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