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    What hardware is everyone using?

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    • W Offline
      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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                  • 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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                      • N Offline
                        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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