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Upgrade Readynas Pro 6
I'm a happy owner of a newly aquired elderly ReadyNAS Pro 6 running lates OS 6.10.3 in otherwise stock configuration: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @1.80GH 1 GB Installed Memory BIOS 08/20/20...
Hi Sandshark and thanks for kind input !
Bit of a bummer with the old BIOS. When I read the "bios_ver.log" file it read "08/20/2008 FLAME6-MB V1.5". Since I have already purchased both the Memory sticks and both processors (all found cheap second hand), I could just give it a try and see if it will work out with no BIOS upgrade.
Since I have not started to use the NAS yet, there are no data on it, so if none of the new hardware is accepted I gues I could do a factory reset to revert to OS 4, and then run "IOS_Update_Package_0.5-x86.bin" to see if it will update BIOS.
The only thing I'm a bit worried about if I do a factory reset, is that I had the issue with incorrrect Serial Number being shown preventing me from logging on to ReadyCloud, which "JohnCM_S" kindly sorted out for me (fantasc help I got there). If I factory reset, will I then also delete the correct serial and end up where I were before JohnCM_S helped out....
Oh well, fiddeling with old stuff is not easy - but fun, and as I really like the unit I would love to extend the life of it...
Just to give you a heads up, the likelihood that the e7600 will work is very slim. The e7600 is of a different architecture and back in the lga775 days if the bios didn't support the newer architecture, it wouldn't work. :(
That being said, the x3230 you're looking at should work as long as the nas supports a 1066 front side bus. But I would expect your fan to run faster in order to cool it since it is a 100w processor vs 65w. I've done a lot of upgrades (on computers not nas units) like this and as long as the fan runs faster or 100% all the time, you won't have an issue with cooling.
But the real question on processor upgrade choice is what matters more--cores or single thread performance? Because if it's single thread performance, the e2220 has a very high chance of working and providing a serious boost:
Please report back if the e7600 works. :) It sucks that all this has been done before and is lost due to system transitions...seems like the entire Internet is only 10 years old because of all this data loss. :(
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