Google 1Gb hardware recomendations
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My recommendation is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128679
we also have 1 Gbit connections available in Romania from RCS & RDS ISP and these boards based on Celeron 1037U and 2 Gbit NICs are reported to match these famous 1000mbps -
Can you send me the link of the server you are referring to on amazon?
Sure, its not small but its fast, cheap and quiet.
Mind you that Dell among others have onboard NSA watchdogs embedded in the hardware.
If that is a real risk for you, stop buying new computer hardware at all. (seriously)
Its pretty much all fabbed in china or taiwan so PRC can add whatever they want with some extra transistors, and by the same token so could NSA et al. Ditto goes for anything that comes with factory firmware. (aka all motherboards, nics, harddrives, etc)
You cannot secure a mass market commodity supply chain against nation-state threats, period. -
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271393932928
This board $50 and an i5-2520m ~$55 might do you. I picked up 4 of these recently. Can't really beat the feature set for the price.
Dual Intel LAN,
Intel vpro with ip KVM, serial over lan
CF card slot (Watch mounting height)
Fullsize minipcie
Pretty low power
m-itx form factorThat is pretty nice, did it come with the heatsink hardware? Shows in the picture but their listing info is sparse.
Finding cheap socket G2 laptop cpus is easy but getting a desktop cooler with the proper mounts is not.
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Thanks everyone for the ideas!
Here is what I am thinking. Please let me know your thoughts.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108196 case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220867 RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128679 board suggested by maurer
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171667 Went SSD so I dont have to worry about moving parts and still have some storage. -
I was looking for the longest time a dedicated platform but I'm excited to be venturing into a HP microserver gen8 running esxi with pfsense + xpenology + win7 Remote Desktop server. I think this will justify the 30w that the microserver will draw.
Just food for thought.
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I was looking for the longest time a dedicated platform but I'm excited to be venturing into a HP microserver gen8 running esxi with pfsense + xpenology + win7 Remote Desktop server. I think this will justify the 30w that the microserver will draw.
Just food for thought.
GoldServe: This is going to make me think a bit….. I picked up a Synology 213j hoping to run Plex, but alas Plex so far is not supporting the armv7 proc. This might be the answer to my issue. I could get this, run Pf and some other OS that can run Plex....
Thanks for posting this! I am going to think about this some more. -
Ok so GoldServe got me thinking. I have an i7 kinda laying around, I use it for some video encoding. I also have a 3GHz Celleron D as well….. I would rather use the Celleron D for a VM box. ATM I really only need a Pfsense box and an OS box to run Plex. Other than that, I have what I need on my main comp. What are the thoughts on the hardware using the Celleron D? If needed I think I could find a dual core cpu to swap out..... Its running 2GB of DDR2 RAM, so I am thinking the only weak link is the CPU.
Thoughts?
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The Intense PC 2 won't have working NICs under 2.1. It may work under 2.1.1 but I'm not sure about the i218 port. I don't know that anyone has tested anything but the i210/i211. A safer bet would be the first generation part, though it's still really expensive for what you get.
Are you sure about that ? Can someone confirm is the intense PC 2 will work or not under 2.1.1 ?
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Some time ago I saw the new Avoton-boards going round. I don't know about drivers in FreeBSD 8.3 and if the most important ones are included- maybe someone can help out here? I'd suggest the supermicro board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182851
It's quite powerful, and as I'm writing this I read about the ethernetcontroller being supported in 2.2.. Perhaps a nice board for the future- or very enthusiastic bleeding-edge pfsense-fans in non-productive environments. -
I've got the C2758 variant. Works great under 2.1.1 now that the upgraded Intel drivers are back in the build. The only warning I'll give is that you'll have a grand total of (2) working USB ports. Most of the ports on this board are 3.0 and that doesn't work yet.