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Aspirant

Jan 07, 2018

ReadyNas Pro Business upgrading hardware and to OS6

Hi, I have been using this in my home since this model came out all those years ago and am looking to bring it more up to speed. I am running bios version 07/26/2010 FLAME6-MB V2.0 The CPU is C...

ReadyNAS OS 6 on Legacy models

sfg

Aspirant

Jan 08, 2018

Sandshark wrote:
You have the latest BIOS, so the E7500 is a good CPU choice.

Are there any other ones I could go faster/quadcore while using the standard heatsink/arctic5, etc...

My Pro Business is one of the models where the Serial No. is the MAC address

mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 08, 2018

So you'd have a very old board rev so your motherboard would be compatible with a smaller range of CPUs than some newer units.

Sandshark
Sensei
Jan 08, 2018
It has always been my understanding that the older version motherboard would not accept FLAME6-MB V2.0, so having that revision BIOS says the board is the latest. mdgm-ntgr, you have other info?

Unless you do a lot of extensive parallel processing (like multiple transcodings), the quad core is not going to help you much, and the higher TDP can cause issues.
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Jan 09, 2018
  I’m not sure on that. It is quite a long time ago now and the first gen Pro was discontinued a long time before I joined NETGEAR.
  
  I understand there’s a sticker on the motherboard showing the board rev. There’s a long thread on CPU upgrades for the Pro with lots of info.
  - sfg
    Aspirant
    Jan 12, 2018
    CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7600 @ 3.06GHz stepping 0a
    4096 MB [6-6-6-18 DDR2]
    
    Fan SYS 1308 RPM OK
    Fan CPU 2008 RPM OK
    Temp SYS 58 C / 136 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
    Temp CPU
    23 C / 73 F [Normal 0-60 C / 32-140 F]