I want an ultra with an intel sandy bridge system and hdmi out.Sandy bridge has integrated video on the cpu that is actually pretty powerful.Why?An XBMC server.

also, a built in slot load bluray drive would be groovy too.if you build it, they will come.

Brilliant, I like it!Basically an HTPC with XRAID. Think of the possibilities.

TeknoJnky wrote:I want an ultra with an intel sandy bridge system and hdmi out.I agree this would be great and coincidentally made the same suggestion back in October. It would be such an improvement to have the Intel QuickSync hardware accelerated transcoding and also let's face it the Atom processors are pretty anemic (as anyone who has used a netbook can attest to). A bottom of the range Sandy Bridge would not consume significantly more power on average than an Atom but it would make the whole ReadyNAS platform capable of so much more. Of course, the purchase price would be higher but within reasonable limits it could be justified if it saves buying a separate streaming device. Tomshardware showed that even a Core2 has better performance per watt than an Atom. Another possibility might be to build it around AMD's new Brazos platform which is slightly faster than an Atom but has much better graphics capabilities. I guess they could call it a ReadyMedia or something. I would wager that for most home ReadyNAS users the majority of the disk space on their NAS is consumed by Media files. It makes perfect sense to add an HDMI output to the device rather than needing two separate devices (NAS plus Streaming box) to be switched on.Here's another idea: I'd like a ReadyNAS that can achieve >100 MB/s read and write speeds under all circumstances (i.e. even for doing a Windows directory copy that contains lots of smaller files). The Ultra 4 can only manage about 14 MB/s which doesn't come close to saturating a single gigabit ethernet connection. Perhaps Netgear could put an optional (Sandforce controller based) SSD cache into their products to accelerate beyond the limits that can be achieved with 4 mechanical disks, or even better provide an additional 6gbps SATA slot where customers can optionally install the SSD of their choice. With this sort of solution and dual-gigabit ethernet we could even exceed 200MB/s for a cost of an additional $150 for the SSD. There would also of course need to be some additional smartness built into the caching implementation so that the contents of cache does not get flushed when the nightly rsync backup reads the contents of the RAID volume. Perhaps this could be done my providing an additional read-only mount point (for use by non network based services like rsync or media indexing processes etc) that bypasses the SSD cache driver.

mjw wrote:Here's another idea: I'd like a ReadyNAS that can achieve >100 MB/s read and write speedsviewtopic.php?f=19&t=51208under all circumstances (i.e. even for doing a Windows directory copy that contains lots of smaller files). The Ultra 4 can only manage about 14 MB/sI think its highly dependant on the disks.I wish SNB standardized testing with SSD's for every nas, then we could see the real performance of the nas, instead of the disks that came with them.

TeknoJnky wrote:viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51208under all circumstances (i.e. even for doing a Windows directory copy that contains lots of smaller files). The Ultra 4 can only manage about 14 MB/sI think its highly dependant on the disks.Interesting to see your performance results in the thread you referenced however I notice that although these numbers exceed 100MB/s you are mostly copying large files (movies, music) and also you seem to be measuring the aggregate performance across multiple concurrent reads. Is that correct? I would expect that if you did the same test with a single user process copying thousands of 4K files you would get much lower than 100MB/s.For example, if you look a the results for the WD20EARS drives that you use in your NAS, the 4K read/write performance is less than 1MB/s! Here is the worst-case performance of a single disk. You should get higher performance with 4 disks in RAID-5 but not 4 times the performance:So, I think there is a lot of potential performance benefit by adding an SSD cache like the Vertex 3 that can approach 70MB/s for a 4K read (which is over 100 times better performance than possible with a WD20EARS drive).and 200MB/s for a 4K write:

wishlist - ultra 2/4/6 with sandybridge and hdmi

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TeknoJnky

Hero

Nov 15, 2013

qnap built it.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas- ... ding-nases

A hardware platform based on a dual-core 3.3 GHz Intel Core i3 processor and 2 GB of DDR3 RAM is intended to provide enough power for HD digital playback via the built-in HDMI port using its bundled XBMC media player.

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 15, 2013
The ReadyNAS 300 series and 500 series have a HDMI port for possible future use.
mjw1
Aspirant
Nov 15, 2013
QNAP also now has SSD caching too!
TeknoJnky
Hero
Nov 15, 2013
mdgm wrote:
The ReadyNAS 300 series and 500 series have a HDMI port for possible future use.

Why trust to 'possible' and 'future' when it is already possible to get it now.

Netgear had over 2 years opportunity to take my money.

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