Athlon 5350 pfsense box
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I'm sure it will work fine - I have pfsense in a few places.
The one I like the best is an old Athlon X2 with a bunch of intel NICs in all its slots.
Including the video slot.
Its old and ugly but it always works.
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What sort of throughput are you looking for?
Are you going to be running any packages? VPNs?Steve
Edit: typo
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cable @ 60/10
I run one vpn for my torrents
will be running a openvpm server to allow someone to connect to my network
this is overkill, but should work ok
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what should I use for storage?
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Depends what packages you're running. If you're not running Snort or Squid then just run Nano and boot from flash.
There is a tremendous amount of misinformation regarding SSDs floating about here. If you buy a decent SSD you will have no problems with it. Much of the bad rep is based on early SSDs with bad firmware.
Steve
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cable @ 60/10
So the AES-NI-support (even when it comes to pfSense in the future) will make no difference.
I don't care what you choose and I'm not saying anything against the Athlon here, only recommending that you shouldn't over-interpret the AES-NI-difference.
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^ Exactly. ;)
The Athlon has a lower idle power consumption for example so make sense from that point of view. AES-NI is going to make a huge difference in high end applications but for soho use most hardware is already easily capable.
Steve
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You have a computer the size of a house with real sata interfaces…
For god sake, don't run nano.
Run a normal full install - You will be glad you did.Unless being pen pals with the nano support crew is how you want to spend your weekends at every update?
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Unless being pen pals with the nano support crew is how you want to spend your weekends at every update?
I'm nowhere near being as experienced as you but I run two nanos and one full install in production since the initial 2.1 release. I have (so far) experienced no upgrade problems with any of them.
I hope not but maybe it's just because I'm a very lucky guy my nanos work well…
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AMD for home use may be OK.
For anything else, AMD is not getting my money. They may have improved over time, but I've had some real bad issues with AMD platforms in the past.Cheers.
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Different approach then…
Why do you dislike a full install for your application?
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Unless being pen pals with the nano support crew is how you want to spend your weekends at every update?
;D Ha!
Yes, the last two updates suffered an unfortunate error that affected some hardware. That was an exception though and the built in backup in Nano made it easy to recover (as long as you had local access to the box!).Steve
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I have an old 60gb vertex2 that I can use.
I will have local access, box will be in the basement by the cable modem
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I have a couple of those and they haven't given my any trouble (not running under pfSense though). However they do not have a good reputation for reliability.
Steve
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I've been interested to give one of these a try for a while.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kingspec-Industrial-Disk-on-Module-SATA-DOM-7Pins-16GB-SLC-1CH-for-POS-Machines-/161299486599?pt=US_Solid_State_Drives&hash=item258e32d787
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yes, afordable SLC at last.
Found a larger one, two channels:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kingspec-Industrial-Disk-on-Module-SATA-DOM-7Pins-32GB-SLC-2CH-for-POS-Machines-/161279269555?talgo=origal&tfrom=151281943955&ttype=price&tpos=unknow
I'll try one my SM2558.
Cheers.
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Yeah - I have an idea that those are not the fastest in the world but might be reliable.
Otherwise the people who sell them would have bad ratings already. Ebay ratings don't usually lie.
I'm also a big fan of SLC because I've never had one fail - ever.
Please do PM me and post what you find about those DOMs.
I may want to try one in my next build.
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Will do, I just bought the 32GB 2-channel SLC.
It will take a while to get here, this is Colombia and it really is the arse of the world.
Anyway when it's running I'll post about it here.I also found some cheap Kdata SLC SSD:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Industrial-SLC-Chip-32GB-SSD-Drive-for-Laptop-PC-SATAII-Solid-State-Disk-32GB-/161395330944?pt=US_Solid_State_Drives&hash=item2593e94f80
But power consumption (6W) seems a little high, and the sustained r/w speeds are rather low (in fact not much better than conventional HD's).
Also, Kdata brand is totally unknown.
So I skipped that one.As an alternative to SLC and MLC, eMLC SSD's would be worth trying. Didn't have time to research it yet.
Cheers.
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Thats cool, thanks. But why does the SLC kdata have trim?
I guess there is no reason TRIM and SLC can't be used together, but none of mine have TRIM.
Yep - I will keep an eye out for that.
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I am going to go pickup parts next week. Using a single stick of 8gb ecc ddr3 with this cpu/build
