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    What hardware is everyone using?

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    • W Offline
      Wolf666
      last edited by

      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
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        @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
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          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
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            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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                  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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                      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
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                          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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                                  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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                                            Com DAC
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                                            I'm running on this:

                                            Motherboard / CPU: ASRock Q1900M / Celeron J1900 (http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M/)
                                            RAM: 4GB
                                            NIC: 2x Intel Gigabit CT Adapters (https://ark.intel.com/products/50395/Intel-Gigabit-CT-Desktop-Adapter)
                                            HDD: old 400GB WD drive I had sitting around.

                                            The machine idles at ~14 watts and handles everything I throw at it. If I got a better powersupply and replaced the HDD with an SSD I could probably get the power consumption lower but the cost of the new parts would be more than the savings of electricity for the life of the rig.

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