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How to Upgrade the CPU and RAM in a ReadyNAS 516
Well I have done it. It seems to be working great. I've ran a few basic tests and you really don't get a idea of the differance without accessing it. you can notice the speed Improvment. Accessin...
thank you all for the input what I do is I plan every year to spend 2k max of my tax refund on network, Nas, tech for the family of us 5. and in my plan i start doing my research for next years upgrade as well but that being said I am always looking at systems for a 5-10 year plan thats why I spennd do much at a time the hard drives were 379.99 x 6 i got them for a great deal from amazon. I have talked it over with the wife because the motto is "happy wife happy life". i will be using the upgraded nas as the main backup system and the other as the main after i convert the current system to match the one that has no warranty, with the ram and cpu upgrades as well. now if only I could add a 10 gb nic card to the 2x RN516's in prep for next year
Next year I will be making a new dedicated Plex server with freenas and a x2 cpu motherboard with the power to have a passmark score of 10k with just the 1 cpu in it, that way I have the option to upgrade it with the other cpu and an if needed even a faster cpu is avalible as well.
this will be a headless system aka no video card needed.
this is the 1 I will be making with a few of the upgrades next year https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/5n8wfh/plex_server_build_recommendation_500_8core_16/
the upgrades will be as follows
1 gb of ram for every Tb of space
1x ssd 250 gb drive for os Freenas does not need much it wil only be running Plex
1x ssd 500 gb drive as the read drive
1x ssd 500 gb drive as the write drive
1x ssd 1 tb drive as a dedicated meta data drive for Plex
1x two port 10 Gigabit nic card
and a 4U server case that can hold a dedicated amount of drive to be determaned this time next year odds are 24 unless i can fine a 45 drives case for sale then. "one can hope" but not likely.
thank you for the help everyone :D
As far as I know you can put in 8TB HDD, maybe even 10TB HDD into the 516. The prices are pretty high for them still though. So you're not maxing your 516 with 6TB drives. I'd like to start swapping my 3TB ones for 6TB drives and double the space I have now. I'm trying to not add to much right now and clear out some stuff because I'm almost full with about 1.4TB left. I'd like to get my money worth with the drives I now have a couple of my WD RED drives are over 4 years old. Since they don't run as fast and heat isn't to bad, I hope to get maybe 6 years or more out of them. I figure by then prices on 6TB drives will be in the $150 price range as 10+ TB drives are the new normal. Can I hold out that long? It'll be hard. Keep expanding and it's never enough.
The problem is, as you gain more and more space, Backing up all this data doesn't take hours any more but days. I am thinking about getting one of them 5 bay Expansion units. The biggest issue is space. I really don't have any next to my 516 right now. You've seen my pictures of my setup. There's no space in my small closet. I would maybe have to mount the Wifi Router and cable modem on the side wall maybe? I'm going to have to give it some thought. More HDD's means more power and odds of HDD failures goes up. Things to think about. If I had the money, I'd build my own NAS also. and a Duel XEON processor setup and using ECC ram would be great. Though they have what, 16 core or something XEON processors now, though you're talking about a few thousand for 1 CPU.
Looking on Amazon, they have the Xeon LGA2011-3 2.60G 35M Proc E5-2697V3 14C DDR4 Up to 2133MHZ for $2,094.24. That's 14 core, 28 threads. I know there's a 16 core one in the $3000+ price range. One of those and I think you could handle on the fly transcoding for a few 4K movies at once without problem. 2 of these CPU's, YES, that would be something. That's a NAS!!! Have a nice fast SSD for the OS and other programs. It's your system so installing a 10 Gigabit card into the system is a simple matter. Ummmm,. I just need some, a lot of money.
You'd get better performance getting a RN526X or even a RN316 rather than getting the EDA500. Even with the EDA500 the volume does need to be a separate one to the one in the main chassis.
High capacity disks should work provided they fit and are compatible. With some high capacity disks you may need to remove the tool-less insert and use the screws to secure the 3.5" disk to the drive tray.
I just don't have space for a EDA500 or anything else for that matter. So I think I'll go with larger HDD, from 3TB to at least 6TB. That would get me from just over 13TB to over 26TB using 6TB drives I assume. While there are 8 and 10TB HDD now, price wise, still costly. Always a trade off price/size. I'm just trying to hold off and wipe stuff from the NAS I can do without and try to slow up the fill rate. I'm going to hook backup at least one of my HD Homeruns for TV Recording as supposidly PLEX supports DVR TV Recordings now using any of the HDHomerun tuners, where some of these other DVR software solutions only support the newer HDHomerun tuners. It would be nice to have the ability to record 1 or 2 more shows once in a while when all 4 tuners are busy on my TIVO. That of course takes more space. I'm already getting the warning of "Volume: Less than 10% of volume data's capacity is free. Performance on volume data is degraded. To improve performance, you must add capacity."
I figured you all would like to see this. this is the 516 Modded from this Great guide.
Some pics of it full of the Ironwolf 10TB NAS drives. Using the Default Raid 5 Format.
Now comes the fun part transfering everything from the Old Factory RN516 to the new Modded one :).
The Temps have been staying at this range since the install
these are are them.
From Left to right
A WD USB 3.0 2TB Drive dull of Ripped Movies that need dumpped to the new NAS.
Next is the ReadyNas 516 Modded and full of 6x Ironwolf Nas 10TB drives :)
and the Old ReadyNas 516 thats still under Factory warranty for a year and a few months
Filled with 6x WD Red 4TB drives that has been full for 1 year 3 months and a week now lol
that nas has been sending this email to me since then every day lol
Less than 20% of volume Ent3rtainm3nt's capacity is free. Performance on volume Ent3rtainm3nt will degrade if additional capacity is consumed. NETGEAR recommends that you add capacity to avoid performance degradation.
on a good note I now have to decide if i keep the factory one or sell it driveless after i transfer everything to the new system. Or do i Just void the warranty and mod that one as well with the same setup as the currently modded one has. Thanks to to JBDragon's Great step by step guide. Because i could Building a dedicated Plex server next year around this time. Time will tell.
the only thing I dont like about these NAS now is that i cant get the custome board that is in the RN716. that being said i did find the 2x 10gb nic card that is used in it for a little over $200 on amazon. but if one of the service department is willing i would happly buy the missing addin card so i can get the Faster data transfers with the 2 systems linked together.
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