I've used one for over 5 years and it's been great.

Vlans  OK  read this thread  https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=113392.msg631783#msg631783

64-128GB SSD is enough for you. I suggest you to install squid as well, 150 devices accessing internet would be beneficial from squid proxy in general, especially when you only have slow ADSL connection. I did it once 8+ years ago, only 2M+5M ADSL and my pfSense with squid was serving 150-200 users without any issue, not to mention that I was still using spinning HDD as cache drive at that moment. @jhancock: Hi, I'm looking to purchase a SG-4860.  I don't know if there is any value to having a 128GB SSD instead of the standard memory card. The device is to be used for our medium sized office firewall/vpn.  Around 150 devices internal. I may want to eventually use some traffic/source database to filter malware.  I will certainly want to log traffic for purposes of understanding usage trends so I can decide on sensible bandwidth shaping policies.  I do not need to keep logs long term for audit/policing purposes. So I'm asking if there will ever be a need for such storage?  I haven't used pfSense in about 6 years so am not familiar with the disk usage needs for common features. thanks, Jon

@BlueKobold: I fail to see the need for trim on something with as few writes as pfSense.  Just some log entries now and then. Together with squid and snort or squid as a caching proxy it would be speeding up many things if you are going with a mSATA or SSD and yes also TRIM can be interesting then. Why not using the actual given features and options? I didn't bother with trim on mine, as it really isn't necessary .  Heck even an SSD is not necessary.  I used to boot pfSense from a USB stick and it worked just fine. But running Squid as a caching proxy you might be not able to realize with that set up. Not going to do that with a 16GB SSD anyway :p That being said, squid proxies are not very effective anyway.  Most traffic is effectively cached on the local machine.  Only if you have very many machines on the same network all downloading the same OS updates does it really make sense.

This was owed to the Squid usage as a caching proxy and not the syslogs! I haven't read pretty well your post about squid, I edited my last post as well saying about 120gb should not be enough for caching? Here is a dual 19" rack mount case for ~60 € that can hold two of this boards with ease Wow that rack is very cool, thanks for the link!

I've had much success running pfsense in VMware on cpus ranging from older Core2 based Xeons to the  X5550.  I would not use any of them for a 1Gbps connection in a VM.  I'd suggest running all your other workloads virtualized and get a dedicated box to run pfsense.

@khorton: @Sekrit: I tried Jetway but decided to return it.  Instead, I changed my server to XeonE3-1245 and supermicro X11 motherboard with a 4 port intel LAN and running pfsense on Vmware under Windows 10.  Addons are snort, pfblocker and Squid proxy. It has been very stable and fast for 6 months. Which Jetway board did you have, and why did you decide to return it? I had a Jetway JC320U93W-2930-B Intel Celeron N2930 Dual Intel LAN Fanless NUC It generated too much heat. SO-DIMM was defective or the motherboard was causing memtest errors. SSD I received was DOA. The USB drive that I was using temporarily eventually failed too.  I had enough problems.  I wanted to give it a shot to vmware installation and never looked back.

Hello, you could try that: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=106078.msg630826#msg630826 it works on my AC785S and it's the same idVendor and idProduct good luck

@Jailer: Looks like it's supported by FreeBSD so it should work. thank you i didnt think about looking here thank you so much thats good

@Aluminum: ECC on the system ram will mostly just give you higher potential uptime between random flipped-bit crashes IMO, it can't hurt but no big deal. Yeah, that is what I thought, but it doesn't hurt to confirm with others on occasion. For me uptime has never been an issue.  My uptime is always governed by the need to reboot for a hardware/software upgrade, one power outage in the last 10 years the times I moved, never based on system instability :p

@whosmatt: The SG-2440 will be more than enough for that usage. Yes.

I was getting errors until I bought a new switch.  If you have another around, give that a shot.

Please check the discussion about E5372 which looks similar to E5573 discussed here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=106477.msg594536#msg594536

True that, i just checked on NewEgg, only $20 difference. I just gotta  figure out what would be good CPU to get for my Gigabit (down) / 50mbit (up) (Cable/DHCP) connection.

@jwt: We understand the issue now, and the good news is that it can be fixed by a change to coreboot. I've tested a preliminary fix. Now we just have to do the engineering / testing of same to get it to production. Thanks for the update. I'm really pleased with this news and look forward to the coreboot update. @bkraptor: This is a PSA for anyone looking to buy a RCC-VE – keep in mind that the devices may not meet the specs. I know it may sound like a rant, but this is not the kind of support I expected from a company that wants to break into the Enterprise space. Wanted to update on this because jwt has provided excellent support since my last post here. I am happy with the outcome of my support case.

Digression or not, I appreciate the extra info and feedback!  Definitely relevant to my interests. I probably won't have a server anywhere close to yours,  I can justify a lot of things (see: previous thread entries where I went somehow from APU2C4 to C2778), but that is a truly massive amount of storage.  12 spinning discs and 9 SSDs, wow!  I'll have only 5 spinning discs and a boot SSD. I'm just going to go from 5x2TB to 5x4TB and pick up transcoding ability and general purpose server functionality in the process.  I already have link aggregation, so I'll be keeping that, too. Thanks for taking the time to help educate me.  I'll definitely be referring back to my notes from this thread when it is time to build my new NAS.

Big thanks for that information, appreciated. Just ordered SG300-20.