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    What hardware is everyone using?

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    • S Offline
      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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        • Jetway NF9HG-2930 (actual today)

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

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          Tzvia
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          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
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              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
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                      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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                                        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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