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    What hardware is everyone using?

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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
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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
                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
                                last edited by

                                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
                                  last edited by

                                  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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