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RN516 Memory Upgrade
Curious if anyone knows if it is possible to upgrade the memory on the RN516? From what I can gather, the RN516 is using one slot (2 available) with a single innoDisk 4GB 1600 W/ECC DIMM, model # M3C...
My RN104 uses around 300Mbytes... To fill up the whole 4Gb you have some room... File transfers should impact the CPU more than the RAM, network is also likely to limit you before that, not to mention the disks. RAM is used for other applications than what is provided by Netgear, everything Netgear provides will fit in the 512Mb ram (otherwise they couldn't maintain a single OS version across their NAS), let's say 1Gb if you have many clients.
4gb is already more than enough unless you plan on using your NAS to run virtual machines, or use heavy clients like crashplan. It could make a difference if you host a webserver that serves several hundreds users per hour.
Other than that I don't think you will need it, you could install and launch all the applications available within your 4Gb ram. That's mainly a selling point for Netgear, people like numbers. But honestly 2Gb is enough for 95% of the users. and if you avoid using a cloud heavy client (by using dropbox or readynas vault that are already integrated for exemple), 1Gb is more than enough, even 512Mb could do but would be filled all the time.
I wouldn't bother upgrading, particularly if you are unsure of which RAM you need, manufacturers don't like people opening their boxes and you may have to revert to the original configuration each time you do a ticket.
Indeed I think a CPU upgrade makes more sense but you'll void the warranty for sure with that.
4gb is already more than enough unless you plan on using your NAS to run virtual machines, or use heavy clients like crashplan. It could make a difference if you host a webserver that serves several hundreds users per hour.
Other than that I don't think you will need it, you could install and launch all the applications available within your 4Gb ram. That's mainly a selling point for Netgear, people like numbers. But honestly 2Gb is enough for 95% of the users. and if you avoid using a cloud heavy client (by using dropbox or readynas vault that are already integrated for exemple), 1Gb is more than enough, even 512Mb could do but would be filled all the time.
I wouldn't bother upgrading, particularly if you are unsure of which RAM you need, manufacturers don't like people opening their boxes and you may have to revert to the original configuration each time you do a ticket.
Indeed I think a CPU upgrade makes more sense but you'll void the warranty for sure with that.
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