What hardware is everyone using?
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Cheap and works well for my home use.
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Netgate sg-8860
Official hardware
Expensive, but nice as hell.
Also, foss all the way down to the bios.
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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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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.
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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*36mmThere'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.
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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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Jetway JNC9C-550-LF Atom N550 (added active cooling to increase livespan)
2GB RAM
2GB SATADOMPFsense 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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gigabyte el20-3710-32gb
4gb ram
120gb msata -
Current setup
Supermicro X7SBE-O
Core2Duo E8400
4GB Samsung DDR2 non ECC
Extremely old and used up 250GB Seagate SATA driveSoon to be replaced with:
APU2C4
16GB mSATA SSDShould 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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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-HolePower consumption is around ~20W
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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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PCEngines APU2C4 with 16GB Phison S9 mSata SSD.
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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 DrivesVM'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 CoresIN 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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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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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/
