Running the WL700gE at 300MHz

[Hacksaw]

Mine gets pretty warm when the HDD is spinning, but I wouldn't call it "damn hot".

Well, if it was sitting in my lap it would get a little uncomfortable :-)

Looks like I will leave it be then.

Do you know of anyone who has tried to put a laptop HDD in the router? Might cut down on heat and noise. Of course you will loose capacity...

Hacksaw.

[n00ben]

nice you are trying to get the most out of the wl700 but none of you have written anything about expected, and actual performance gains. Can anyone elaborate on this?

/regards
Henrik

[kfurge]

nice you are trying to get the most out of the wl700 but none of you have written anything about expected, and actual performance gains. Can anyone elaborate on this?

Since the backplane frequency is essentially unchanged, I/O performance won't improve any.

However, CPU bound processes will see a 13.6% peformace improvement from the MHz bump alone.

- K.C.

[torretje]

Well, if it was sitting in my lap it would get a little uncomfortable :-)

Looks like I will leave it be then.

Do you know of anyone who has tried to put a laptop HDD in the router? Might cut down on heat and noise. Of course you will loose capacity...

Hacksaw.

great idea...will try this with my cable i found recently
on this cable is written :
'hung fu awm 2651 e97252-h vw-1 105˚C 300V 28awg -013'

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...C=SO&U=strat15

[Gregoire.Favre]

Wouldn't it be even better to use a cheap SSD ?

[kfurge]

Wouldn't it be even better to use a cheap SSD ?

I wouldn't. Solid state drives can only execute a finite number of write cycles. The router uses the HDD for swap and may hit this limit rather quickly.

A notebook HDD is probably a good option since it's data transfer speed matches the 264/300 MHz processor speed pretty well. A blazing fast HDD is no good when the processor is incapable of keeping up with the data rate anyway.

- K.C.