@GabrieleMax said in IBM System x3550 M2:
@stephenw10
Tomorrow when I'll come to the office I'll remove two of the fours disks and I'll re-install PfSense in ZFS mode, I prefer to remove the hardware which I don't need to take care them in a drawer!
Let’s put my 5c on this:
x3550 M2 are old, but sufficient machine for pfSense, especially You give them 2 x Xeon X5690 (same stepping and version! + GREAT thermal grease!) and 24Gb of 1.333 ECC RAM (Hynix, Micron, Nanya…) AND switch OFF ALL unused hardware (except DVD/CD) and COM port sharing/redirects;
not forgot to FW update ALL (IMM -> uEFI -> DSA -> RAID -> backplane -> HDD -> onboard NIC) from IBM Support web System x3550 M2, 7978
FW UPDATE ARE IMPORTANT!
And better to replace HDD on SSD (better to set 2 in mirror as system and other 2 in mirror as for system logs exclusively).
And this hoarse able to grinding 5Gb traffic with Suricata/Snort + bunch of FW rules, VPNs and shapers… ;)
You may sure that this x3550 m2 working for You next 5-8+ years.
(Just buy 1 x EXTRA PSU (power supply unit) for hot-spare change if one of old would die because capacitors die.)