Hardware check for pfsense
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Hi folks..
I'm looking at returning to pfsense as a main FW instead of router rubbish, so im looking at running pfsense on this.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-ProLiant-DL160-G6-Rack-Server-Dual-Quad-Core-L5630-Xeon-2-13GHz-16GB-DDR3-RAM-/121918899445?hash=item1c62eec4f5:g:KdQAAOSwu4BVrlsP
Anyone shed any light on this ? Any good,
Ill be running squid off this to and a few other things.
Keyz
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Looks like overkill to me. I'd be concerned about power consumption and noise level.
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Ill shed some light.
I'm not really fussed about power or noise as its getting tucked up out of the way into a sound proof room :)
It will be fed by a dedicated 1Gb symetrical fibre line.
It will also be linked to a 10Gb switch Via SPF+ which will also see a 25 x 3TB hdd server ( 70TB ) attached. This will also connect to the net and have a FTP running off it.
Id like to know it will be able to cope with the internal demand and demand from the net.
I will no doubt also be running a little wireless lan off this also for local gaming partys , so being able to cope as max speed as possible would be reassuring.
Plus i want it to be future proof, as to when i fibre my home network as the kids never seem to go out and love watching films, downloading crap 24x7.
Keyz
