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    What hardware is everyone using?

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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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        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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            • M Offline
              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
                      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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                      • S Offline
                        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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