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    What hardware is everyone using?

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    • G Offline
      guardian Rebel Alliance
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      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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                    • 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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