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    What hardware is everyone using?

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    • M Offline
      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
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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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              • 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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                    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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                                Jailer
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                                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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                                            sporkme
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                                            For home use I keep using old/refurb Dell slimline boxes.  They are very cheap, nearly silent, and tend to be power efficient.  For a long time I had a Dell P-III-600MHz box, that finally ran out of CPU when I moved to FiOS (usenet downloads maxed at maybe 70Mb/s).  Now I'm running a Core2Duo slimline Dell, picked it up on Amazon (free Prime shipping) for $80.  Something similar to this, they're all over Amazon and Ebay: https://smile.amazon.com/OptiPlex-Core2Duo-2-66GHz-160GB-DVD-RW/dp/B00J8K4KZ4/

                                            Also found Realtek cards with full or low profile brackets that actually work well with FreeBSD:

                                            https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B008FAELF2/

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