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ReadyNAS Pro Business Upgrades
Recently acquired a ReadyNAS Pro Business model (RNDP6350-100) with 6x750GB HDDs in excellent shape for almost free. Original owner added a second RAM stick to give it 3MB total but did no otehr up...
There is no known disk size limit with OS-6, and the largest available drives (12 TB at the moment) will work in your NAS.
Currently shipping OS6 NAS start at 2 GB, so you might actually have enough RAM for now. But your system will support up to 2x4GB.
I'll let others speak to the possibilities on CPU upgrades. I will say that there's not much benefit in storage performance, but there would be a benefit if you want to run a CPU-intensive app such as plex.
If one of your goals is to maximize storage performance, then you should consider using the SSD metadata tiering feature. That will require using 2 slots for SSD disks, so you'd need to upgrade at least two mechanical disks to keep the same amount of storage (assuming single redundancy). I suggest using SSDs that are intended for NAS/server workloads (the EVO 860 Pro being one possibility).
Have pretty much the same ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition (as well as a 2100 v1 and v2) and was looking into getting memory upgrades for these units. I can't seem to find any table or upgrade compatibilty list of known working modules - seem to default to the netgear main page these days (although I do appreciate that these are unsupported units these days). Can anyone point me to an upgrade specs for the 2 x 4GB memory modules.
KInd regards
Musso
For all 6-bay Pro models, you need PC2-6400 low density (2Rx8) memory, 4GB max per slot. 4GB DIMMs carry a premium price because only 64-bit operating systems (which were not in common use except for servers when PC2 memory was the best available) can use more than 4GB. High density (2Rx4) will not work.
Sandshark wrote:
4GB DIMMs carry a premium price
Very true, and DDR2 is getting harder to find.
I upgraded my pro-6 some years ago with Patriot Memory ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZG20C6/ ). That particular option is ridiculously priced now.
I've currently got the following spec in the ReadyNAS Business Edition and was thinking about upgrading the CPU. Found elsewhere in the forum that I would need the BIOS updating first then could upgrade to OS6. Any recommendations for the CPU? Some people seem to have fitted a Xeon in there which was a surprise! but willing to go up to whatever is suitable for cooling/power etc.
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Product Version: 10/03/2008 FLAME6-MB V1.6
BIOS Version: 080014
BIOS Date: 10/03/2008CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz
CPU Family: 6
Model: 21Stepping: 0
Model Name: Genuine Intel(R) processor 1.06GHz
CPU MHz: 1066.632
Cache size: 256 KB-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
KInd regards
Musso
Many thanks for the info, I've ordered some today :-)
Kind regards
Musso
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