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Post by millerguts on Aug 18, 2011 7:33:08 GMT 7
Hey Shinger,
That makes sense. That also explains the 25MB/s throughput you've obtained. I had initially thought it may have been the Ubuntu 10.04 OS you've loaded. I had been able to get around 42MB/s to 45MB/s throughput, sustained at around the low 40s. that said, these figures are based on performance drives (at least 7200 RPM drives).
My next test is to load up the N5200 with 4x 750GB Seagate drives and see if it can handle this load on the SL7VB CPU. If this works, I'll add a 5th drive and cross my fingers! :-)
Congrats on your successful upgrades!
Miller
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Post by shinger on Aug 18, 2011 17:37:38 GMT 7
Hey Shinger, That makes sense. That also explains the 25MB/s throughput you've obtained. I had initially thought it may have been the Ubuntu 10.04 OS you've loaded. I had been able to get around 42MB/s to 45MB/s throughput, sustained at around the low 40s. that said, these figures are based on performance drives (at least 7200 RPM drives). My next test is to load up the N5200 with 4x 750GB Seagate drives and see if it can handle this load on the SL7VB CPU. If this works, I'll add a 5th drive and cross my fingers! :-) Congrats on your successful upgrades! Miller Hi Miller, AAh.. how stupid of me, i totally forgot about the low-performance the Green power HDD of WD give you. I always wondered why i only have like 25 MB/s despite my Gigabit network. I would have reached up to 125 MB/s theoretically speaking. But like you said now it makes sense. But im still happy with 25 MB/s and have no problems with streaming media over the network. The highest speed i have ever reached was a steady 34 MB/s. Ps. I got this after using ext4 filesystem so i guess this also gives you some boost. And its never a bad thing to have a latest version of the Linux kernel. Shinger |
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Post by artefact on Aug 19, 2011 16:54:33 GMT 7
Hello, I have a Pentium M 740 CPU, but I have a doubt about the jumper. Is that the jumper on photo please ?  Thank you for reply. EDIT: I see on german forum that is this jumper (for the other users) ! |
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Post by millerguts on Aug 19, 2011 21:53:57 GMT 7
Hey Artefact,
That is correct. If you open up the case, you'll find that there is only 1 jumper. Alternatively, you can go to page 4 of this thread, and you'll see a larger picture of the motherboard, taken by Jonas21.
Hey Shinger,
I'll try out the 750GB HDDs (Seagate 7200RPM) with the new CPU this weekend. I'll let you know how I go.
Miller
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Post by millerguts on Aug 24, 2011 8:54:21 GMT 7
Hey Shinger,
I have successfully created a new RAID (RAID0) using 4x 750GB Seagate 7200 HDDs with the 2.26GHz SL7VB CPU. Looks like I was right on the money with the original issue - the PSU could not handle 5x 2TB Hitachi HDDs.
I've copied a 7GB file as a test, and managed a sustained throughput of around 48 - 49MB/s.
Miller
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Post by shinger on Aug 25, 2011 20:48:08 GMT 7
Hey Shinger, I have successfully created a new RAID (RAID0) using 4x 750GB Seagate 7200 HDDs with the 2.26GHz SL7VB CPU. Looks like I was right on the money with the original issue - the PSU could not handle 5x 2TB Hitachi HDDs. I've copied a 7GB file as a test, and managed a sustained throughput of around 48 - 49MB/s. Miller Eey Miller, Good job, what are you planning to do now? Sell your Hitachi HDD's or look for a more powerful PSU? Shinger |
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Post by millerguts on Aug 27, 2011 22:51:12 GMT 7
Hey Shinger,
I am planning on moving the 5x 2TB drives to the new Thecus XXX range NAS (either N5200XXX or a potential N7700XXX, if Thecus ever releases one?). My N5200Pro with the new CPU will probably function as an iSCSI device for my VMs.
Miller
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Post by shinger on Aug 28, 2011 19:12:15 GMT 7
Hi Miller, Well that is indeed "a" idea. Im wondering how much you know about computer hardware. If you know alot about it, then i would advice you to build yourself a NAS. This way you get even more powerful/better hardware and much cheaper!! AND you don't have to rely on Thecus for there firmware updates. What you can do is just install a *nix distro on it. This way you'll even have more features then the Thecus Linux will ever give you!!. FreeNAS (Unix): www.freenas.org/ (i would advice the older version, because the new version has been build from scratch and now alot of features are still missing. ) OpenFiler (Linux): www.openfiler.com/ (Never worked with it, but it looks oke) Linux Distro: Or you can just install the server version of a Linux distro. It will give you even more features and is even more powerful. The downside is that you have to spend more time on it, if you don't know how Linux/Unix works. But you can always ask your questions here. I would be more then happy to help you with it  . Shinger |
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Post by millerguts on Aug 28, 2011 21:59:33 GMT 7
Hey Shinger,
Thanks for the suggestions. Admittedly, I have very limited Linux/Unix knowledge. However, I did build myself a Freenas some time ago. I played around with version 8, and ended up regressing back to the last version of 7, due to a raft of missing functions and features (as you mentioned). The critical one being RSync.
I use Freenas as a backup to my Thecus. I may give Linux Distro a go, but will build this on VMware to start with. I may very well be coming back here for some advice.
Cheers!
Miller
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Post by shinger on Aug 29, 2011 4:54:25 GMT 7
Hi Miller, Well what you can do is start from the beginning. Try something with a GUI first to get a taste and observe how things work. Install Virtualbox on your system or VMware. (Virtualbox is free). I would advice you to download Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS desktop. And little by little get to know things especially the terminal. After a while you'll get the hang of it. There is nothing hard about it XD...You'll be amazed by the amount of possibilities it has. I started back in 2008 and still EVERY time (without exaggeration) im being blown away by the power, flexibility and lazyness it gives you  . Nowadays i just get bored to not to do stuff manually because the OS does it automatically. The only "bad" thing Linux gives you, is that your head is even more stuffed with knowledge. Shinger |
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Post by wydchr on Sept 16, 2011 1:27:53 GMT 7
Hi guys, after reading the thread I've just tried to upgrade my N5200Pro, first I increased the memory with a Kingston 1Gb PC2300 CL3 without any problems then I changed the CPU to a Intel® Pentium® M Processor 2.0 GHz/2M SL7SM following what Jonas21 had done including changing the jumper settings but when I tried it the system shut down when reaching 'Loading driver' after going through the 'Self test' and 'Booting' sections OK. I changed the jumper back again and the NAS booted up OK but only lasted for about 30 seconds before shutting down again?
Do you think it would work with the 400MHz 2.0 GHz/2M SL7EM CPU??
I am running firmware 2.01.09.
Cheers, David.
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Post by wydchr on Oct 27, 2011 16:59:23 GMT 7
Hi, I finally got the hardware upgrades completed OK with the Intel® Pentium® M Processor 2.0 GHz/2M SL7SM installed and working along with the 1GB memory upgrade. I think my initial problems were caused by not applying CPU/heatsink cooling compound causing the CPU to overheat and shutting itself down.
David.
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Post by howarddavidp on Jan 18, 2013 11:40:17 GMT 7
So how much more of a CPU will we need to run:
2.26 CPU
1GB RAM
5 x 2TB Hitachi's?
Would it be better to run the Green drives, or some 5400rpm drives of 2TB size?
I know with the GReen drives you need to set TLER and IDLE settings, or else they get kicked out of the RAID array.
Thanks,
David
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Post by nairda on Apr 8, 2013 14:41:06 GMT 7
Just confirming that on n5200Pro version 2 board, SL7SA 1.73ghz 533mhz 2mb cache pentium M works fine. took the sl8mm out put some Arctic silver 5 on the SL7SA, switched the cpus over, gave it a quick clean and switched the jumper from 1-2 to 2-3 and it works fine. No issues at all. SL7SA is going for very cheap.
ALso due to my standard psu blowing earlier this year, and i didnt want to pay $100-150 for a new thecus one, managed to hook up a standard atx psu. it doesnt look as nice, but it works. So if you dont mind the psu "hanging outside" the NAS, you can use a standard atx psu if you want to power bigger 2tb hard drives
Also i took off the 40x40mm fan, and put in a Scythe Kaze Jyu slim 100mm fan. Replacing the standard heat conduction pad with AS5 meant that the thermal conductivity was much more efficient (the heatsink gets very hot). I managed to mount the fan using some foam 3m double sided tape and various bits and pieces of thin metal screwed into the screw holes. It is much quieter and theres more air flowing for the heatsink.
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Post by nairda on Aug 13, 2013 15:38:42 GMT 7
Hi guys,
Just having some problems recently with my upgrade. If i try to copy over large files, and stream music from the server, the server overheats and crashes.
Has anyone suffered similar issues? Any solutions? I think the aluminium heatsink is pretty bad, but dont have any alternatives.
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. Nowadays i just get bored to not to do stuff manually because the OS does it automatically. The only "bad" thing Linux gives you, is that your head is even more stuffed with knowledge.