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    What hardware is everyone using?

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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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            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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              • K Offline
                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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