What hardware is everyone using?

Guest

Jetway NF9HG-2930 (actual today)
Supermicro D-1508, 1518 or 1528 as a bare bone!
For the near future

Tzvia

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

moscato359

Netgate sg-8860

Official hardware

Expensive, but nice as hell.

Also, foss all the way down to the bios.

jahonix

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bbrendon

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.

W4RH34D

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.

guardian

Nano ITX Fanless Server PC J1900 N10A 4LAN

Details:

Intel J1900 Quad Core 2.0GHz;
Intel HD Graphics;
1VGA
4USB2.0;
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:134126*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.

pfBasic

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.

Zflash76

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.

kugmo

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

Jailer

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.

MrGlasspoole

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

Harvy66

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.

ats1995

PCEngines APU2C4 with 16GB Phison S9 mSata SSD.

Nnyan

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
123TB 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.

Com DAC

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.

sporkme

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/