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    What hardware is everyone using?

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    • KOMK Offline
      KOM
      last edited by

      Dell PowerVault NX3000, 32 GB, 6 NICs

      pfSense VM under ESXi 6.5.0, 2 vCPU, 2 GB vRAM, 60 GB disk

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        Wolf666
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        As per signature

        Modem Draytek Vigor 130
        pfSense 2.4 Supermicro A1SRi-2558 - 8GB ECC RAM - Intel S3500 SSD 80GB - M350 Case
        Switch Cisco SG350-10
        AP Netgear R7000 (Stock FW)
        HTPC Intel NUC5i3RYH
        NAS Synology DS1515+
        NAS Synology DS213+

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          marvosa
          last edited by

          @Home
          HP Slimline Desktop
          CPU - Core i3
          RAM - 8 GB
          NICs - 1 Onboard + 1 PCIe

          @Colo on Gigabit Fiber
          IBM System x3650
          CPU - Dual Quad Core Xeon @ 2.66Ghz
          RAM - 32 GB
          NIC's - 2 Onboard + 2 Quad port PCIe

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            kpa
            last edited by

            Self built Mini-ITX system. The motherboard is a "Jetway JNC96-510-LF 1.66GHz Dual Core Atom D510", 4GBs of RAM, 32 GB 2.5"SATA SSD, one Intel PCI gigabit NIC for WAN, one Intel miniPCIe gigabit NIC for LAN, integrated realtek NIC unused so far.

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              sprinteroz
              last edited by

              Pfsense Firewall
              motherboard: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5E_Deluxe/overview/
              3.2GHz cpu: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Extreme+X9770+%40+3.20GHz
              6Gig Ram: http://www.corsair.com/en-au/twin2x2048-8500c5d
              120gig HDD
              2x netgear 1 gig nic's, NetGear GA311 card
              1x builtin Nic 1 gig

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                Guest
                last edited by

                • Jetway NF9HG-2930 (actual today)

                • Supermicro D-1508, 1518 or 1528 as a bare bone!
                  For the near future

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                  Tzvia
                  last edited by

                  Cheap and works well for my home use.
                  (In my sig.)

                  Tzvia

                  Current build:
                  Hunsn/CWWK Pentium Gold 8505, 6x i226v 'micro firewall'
                  16 gigs ram
                  500gig WD Blue nvme
                  Using modded BIOS (enabled CSTATES)
                  PFSense 2.72-RELEASE
                  Enabled Intel SpeedShift
                  Snort
                  PFBlockerNG
                  LAN and 5 VLANS

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                  • M Offline
                    moscato359
                    last edited by

                    Netgate sg-8860

                    Official hardware

                    Expensive, but nice as hell.

                    Also, foss all the way down to the bios.

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                      jahonix
                      last edited by

                      You may find this interesting  [ Show your pfSenses! ] - Thread - (bandwidth warning!)

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                      • B Offline
                        bbrendon
                        last edited by

                        All Netgate models. 2220, 2440, 4860. All work great. No issues.

                        I haven't tried the 1000. I probably won't because its ARM. I'd rather stay on one architecture.

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                          W4RH34D
                          last edited by

                          I use a few things - on a budget otherwise I'd just get the netgate stuff.

                          I ebayed a 6core xeon dell that is for when theres issues and i can lazily throw cpu at it until i figure it out.

                          For serious stuff I like the AM1 - though no one makes a motherboard with more pci-e slots in case i need to expand.
                          Luckily they are cheap and use minimal power.

                          Did you really check your cables?

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                            guardian Rebel Alliance
                            last edited by

                            Nano ITX Fanless Server PC J1900 N10A 4LAN

                            Details:

                            Intel J1900 Quad Core 2.0GHz;
                                Intel HD Graphics;
                                1VGA
                                4
                            USB2.0;
                                Support 2G,4G,or 8G DDR3 RAM and MSATA SSD
                                DC 12V Power Supply
                                4LAN Intel WG82583 10/100/1000M Ethernet
                                Realtek ALC662 HD Audio CODEC
                                High-quality aluminum alloy case, size:134
                            126*36mm

                            http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Popular-Nano-ITX-Fanless-Server-PC-J1900-N10A-4LAN/1463008_32596461105.html

                            There's a lot of info here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=113308.msg638972#msg638972

                            Been using it for about 6 months… so far so good for the money... pushed over 3250mbps through it and it wasn't breaking a sweat. 
                            So far it's been good for the money.

                            If you find my post useful, please give it a thumbs up!
                            pfSense 2.7.2-RELEASE

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                              pfBasic Banned
                              last edited by

                              i5-2400
                              PRO/1000 dual NIC
                              8GB RAM
                              4x8GB SanDisk Cruzer Blades in raidz2 +1 as automatic hot spare
                              Consumes ~34W, stupid overkill for my uses.

                              Bought it on eBay for $130 to get into pfSense.

                              Eventually will switch to a supermicro, low-end xeon or i3 board with integrated 10GbE & SAS to run multiple platforms to include pfSense in ESXi.

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                                Zflash76
                                last edited by

                                Jetway JNC9C-550-LF Atom N550 (added active cooling to increase livespan)
                                2GB RAM
                                2GB SATADOM

                                PFsense is only used at home with SNORT and OpenVPN for max 2 users. No real power is needed. Runs stable as a rock.

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                                  kugmo
                                  last edited by

                                  gigabyte el20-3710-32gb
                                  4gb ram
                                  120gb msata

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                                  • JailerJ Offline
                                    Jailer
                                    last edited by

                                    Current setup

                                    Supermicro X7SBE-O
                                    Core2Duo  E8400
                                    4GB Samsung DDR2 non ECC
                                    Extremely old and used up 250GB Seagate SATA drive

                                    Soon to be replaced with:

                                    APU2C4
                                    16GB mSATA SSD

                                    Should provide a considerable power savings as well as silent running. MY crappy WISP (only option) is 6Mb down 1.4Mb up so no worries about needing to upgrade hardware for quite some time.

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                                      MrGlasspoole
                                      last edited by

                                      Hyper-V Server 2016 on:
                                      ASRock Rack Z97M WS
                                      Core i3-4160
                                      16GB (2x8GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport VLP
                                      128GB SanDisk Z400s SSD <- for Hyper-V
                                      240GB Intel SSD 530 <- for VM's
                                      320GB 2.5" WD Blue <- for downloads
                                      Delta Electronics DPS-250AB-53A (250Watt|80Plus Bronze)

                                      VM's:
                                      pfSense > 2048 RAM assigned
                                      Win8.1 > 3072 RAM assigned | For stuff that works only on Windows and needs to run all the time
                                      Debian > 2048 RAM assigned | Webserver / MQTT-Server - Nginx, HiveMQ, MariaDB, InfluxDB, Grafana, ExpressionEngine
                                      Debian > 1024 RAM assigned | FreeSWITCH Telephony platform
                                      Debian > 512 RAM assigned | Pi-Hole

                                      Power consumption is around ~20W

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                                        Harvy66
                                        last edited by

                                        Home built 3.2ghz i5 Haswell, 8GiB memory, dual Samsung SSDs in GEOM RAID1(gmirror), Intel i350-T2 NIC.

                                        ~15-20% cpu @ ~1.4M pps(~1Gb/s of 64byte packets) LAN->WAN(NAT) with HFSC and 4 UDP streams.

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                                          ats1995
                                          last edited by

                                          PCEngines APU2C4 with 16GB Phison S9 mSata SSD.

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                                            Nnyan
                                            last edited by

                                            CURRENT:
                                            ESXi 6.5a AIO Server()
                                            Rosewill RSV-L4500 Case
                                            Supermicro X8DT6-F
                                            Dual L5640 CPU
                                            64GB (8x8) Hynix MEM-DR380L-HL05-ER13
                                            80GB Intel SSDSCKHB080G4 S3500 Boot Disk
                                            400GB Intel SSDSC2BA400G4 S3710 VM Datastore Disk
                                            1TB HGST Ultrastar A7K2000 Data Files Disk
                                            12
                                            3TB WD RED Hard Drives

                                            VM's
                                            pfSense:  4GB RAM / 4 Cores
                                            Adtran vWLAN: 2GB RAM / 2 Cores
                                            Windows Server 2016: 8GB RAM / 4 Cores
                                            Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials: 4GB RAM / 2 Cores
                                            Windows Nano Server 2016: 2GB RAM / 2 Cores
                                            RancherOS: 4GB RAM / 4 Cores
                                            Centos 7: 2GB RAM / 2 Cores
                                            CentOS Atomic Host: 2GB RAM / 2 Cores
                                            Debian Pi-Hole: 1GB RAM / 2 Cores
                                            Debian Guacamole: 4GB RAM / 4 Cores
                                            Debian Test: 2GB RAM / 2 Cores

                                            IN STAGING:
                                            Future Virtualization Server
                                            Intel R2208GZ4GC "Grizzly Pass" 2U Server
                                            Intel S2600GZ4 Motherboard Rev. C
                                            Dual E5-2670 V1 (keeping an eye on V2 prices)
                                            128GB (8x16GB) HMA42GR7AFR4N
                                            Will migrate the SSDs from current Server.

                                            TEST BOX:
                                            ESXi 6.5/ProxMox/HyperVM
                                            Dell 7010 SFF
                                            HP365T Quad Port NIC
                                            Core i5-3470T 4C 35w (%)
                                            8GB Corsair DDR3 RAM
                                            100GB Dell MLC SSD

                                            (*) Converting this server to be my Storage Server
                                            (%) Until replacement arrives running i3-3240.

                                            Some of this may be out of date as I did a few changes/upgrades and I don't think I always put down the make/model number down on my build list doc.

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