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RAM for RNDP6310-100NAS?
I've seen various confirmations that the RNDP6000-200 can get a 2x4 RAM upgrade - especially some Patriot RAM. I have an RNDP6310-100... and my impression is that this means my NAS is 1st gen ......
You would look at the stock RAM module that you have to see what the layout is. It should be much the same between all of those, but which module we used would depend on what was available to us at the time. 8GB (2x4GB) is the max for your system.
The file is still there: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons ... .5-x86.bin
Ah, I didn't realise you were using a 3rd party OS. The add-on is for installing on the stock OS. If you can run flashrom on your 3rd party OS then it may be possible to flash the BIOS using that, but we haven't tested that so it wuld be quite risky.
You could try the RAM without bothering to do a BIOS update and see how you get on, though it would probably be more likely to work with the newer BIOS.
I would recommend if you havent already that you update the BIOS to the latest version.
Some older boards don't support as much hardware as later boards. There is a sticker on the board indicating the board revision.
The Pro 6 (RNDP6000-200) has a more powerful CPU than your Pro Business Edition. RNDP6310-100 means that your have a Pro Business Edition that came with 3x1TB disks pre-installed at the factory. The RNDP6000-100 was the diskless Pro Business Edition.
Please note that we don't support 3rd party memory upgrades. I would strongly recommend you ensure your backup is up to date before trying 3rd party RAM.
Run at least a few passes of the memory test boot menu option before trusting the new memory. Note that even if it passes the memory test the RAM may still be incompatible.
RAM you use should have as close as possible to the same specs and physical layout as the stock RAM.
Thanks for the inpu!
Has anyone documented what the stock RAM layout is? Is the RNDP6310-100 going to use the same RAM layout as the RNDP6310-200 and RNDP6000?
As for BIOS, I remember searching a few months back and finding a thread from the old forums that kept saying to download the latest BIOS at such-and-such link, but because of how the forums had been switched, that link was dead. I'll look again. But I also recall seeing that you had to have the stock OS on the box to do an update. That might be a problem... since my box runs FreeNAS. Which is why I need 8gb of RAM (minimum).
Thanks for any and all for input
You would look at the stock RAM module that you have to see what the layout is. It should be much the same between all of those, but which module we used would depend on what was available to us at the time. 8GB (2x4GB) is the max for your system.
The file is still there: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons ... .5-x86.bin
Ah, I didn't realise you were using a 3rd party OS. The add-on is for installing on the stock OS. If you can run flashrom on your 3rd party OS then it may be possible to flash the BIOS using that, but we haven't tested that so it wuld be quite risky.
You could try the RAM without bothering to do a BIOS update and see how you get on, though it would probably be more likely to work with the newer BIOS.This is really helpful! Thank you!!
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