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    What hardware is everyone using?

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    • jahonixJ Offline
      jahonix
      last edited by

      You may find this interesting  [ Show your pfSenses! ] - Thread - (bandwidth warning!)

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      • B Offline
        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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            • P Offline
              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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              • Z Offline
                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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                • K Offline
                  kugmo
                  last edited by

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

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                  • JailerJ Offline
                    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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                      • H Offline
                        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
                                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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