how you setup Cache Proxy to a cache drive
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Years and years of life for sure, most SSD's endurance is measured in Terabytes Written. Newer SSD's (samsung all the way) will be MORE than adequate for this level of use. Yes there is a lot of read/writes going on but for VERY small amounts of data. You will burn out a low end SSD by read/writing tons of BIG data, for example with Linus they are storing lots of video/audio on a NAS and read/writing from it constantly. Web files are tiny, and you should get A LOT of life out of a consumer SSD for your use case. With windows update caching, keep in mind that SSL items are not cached, you can set up a windows update cache but it does require extra steps (I have not done it personally though).
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Any of those systems should be fine, put a new CMOS battery in that Asrock board and you wont have that issue anymore. That's like $5 USD at most. In an ideal world, just make sure the system is 64 bit, and the CPU ideally supports the AES-NI instruction set. (you can look that up on ark.intel.com, or cpu-world.com). You should make sure you are using a Gigabit NIC for your LAN, but your WAN could certainly be a 100Mbs NIC since your internet is so slow. In short, the "power" of the system isn't as important as how new it is. I would take a newer PC that was less powerful over an older more powerful machine for pfsense.
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ah ok so ill see about a samsung i usually shop at
www.canadacomputers.com as its an 1.5 hours from me but has better options then staples and bestbuy..
and i planning on picking up a WD Gold 10TB drive finance over 6 months they offer since i want space and my older WD are starting to have errors least thats what Unraid is saying which i dont understand what they saying..
as for the extra network card in my dell comp its free and so is the PCI card was free had it kicking around so dotn need to build a computer but its a 100baseTX but i figure dont need 1000 since its just a DHCP server and internet.. as the files be accessing through the switch to my other computers and i planning to change my cabling to cat 6 or cat 7 sometimei did swap out the battery and it still didnt help i going to swap it out of my good machines as i think all the cmos batteries are the same least size wise and give it a shot
as the board isnt bad its defently newer id have to get u specs .. but im always using Asus Rog boards like Crosshair or Maxmiums or Rampage... i cant really afford supermicro or server grade boards to make my home NAS's it be nice but i dont think id benefit it as i just copy my photos and install programsso all my newer computers i built then turn into servers are all high power gaming ones basiclly quad 6 8 core cpus i know over kill for a pfsense
i was looking at getting a low power motherboard just for pfsense what do you use
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Make sure the jumper to reset the CMOS is in the correct position, that could be the problem too and make sure the BIOS/UEFI is up to date. You don't need a server board, I have a pretty intense setup but even I am just using an ASUS H110M-E/M.2 . I want to upgrade it to a server board with ECC ram someday but realistically speaking it's not necessary for my use case, it's mostly just a quality of life thing and having a board with IMPI (remote KVM). My NAS on the otherhand DOES have a supermicro board with IPMI, C236 chipset and ECC ram, but that's because it needs to be reliable to protect my data etc.
Unraid is probably just reading SMART data that's saying your drive is starting to fail by producing read/write errors. I would replace it. Ideally I would go with several smaller drives for redundancy, I have six 2 TB drives in my NAS running in RAID-Z6. In theory I could have 2 drives fail and I wouldn't lose data.
Remember that Bits are not Bytes, 100 Mbps = about 10 MBps, and 1000 Mbps = about 100 MBps. Your 100BaseTX is fine for your internet since it is only getting 5 Mbps from the ISP, but as you're caching web content you can supply it back to your network at whatever speed your Cache source and NIC are capable of. The move from HDD to SSD for cache/OS install is really going to benefit you in terms of latency. Which is the real appreciable difference when it comes to general web browsing. The size of the files in websites is quite small, but the time it takes to process a request is the killer, with a HDD as a cache you may actually experience "slower" internet for general web browsing over no cache at all. The HDD would only really help on big downloads, but even then the HDD wouldn't be able to handle multiple requests very well as HDD's are very limited on IOPS on top of the latency itself. (IOPS = Input/output operations per second)
A great option is second hand "T" series intel CPU (i.e. i3-2120T vs i3-2120) they are usually only found in OEM systems and so you have to buy the CPU's from EBAY or 2nd hand stores/e-recyclers. But they are throttled down, lower TDP versions of the same CPU. The aforementioned i3-2120T is a 35 Watt cpu vs the standard i3-2120 is 65 watts. That allows you to grab ANY socket 1155 motherboard and run it at a MUCH lower power/heat setup which is perfect for pfsense.
EDIT: Not that it's super applicable but keep in mind that modern Intel Pentium/Celeron/i3's support ECC ram when used with a motherboard that supports it as well. It can be hit or miss on what non-server boards will let you run ECC ram with those CPU's but I have done it successfully before even with H-series chipsets etc. The downside to those CPU's is usually the lack of instruction set support like AES-NI & Vt-d. Among other performance limitations of course.
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ah ok ill check later the motherboard jumper its just a pain in butt i tell ya but when you get for free cant complain lol.. and i seen this remote KVM how you do that i did read synology or synergery i forget.. Linus Tech tips showed it.. 4 computers 1 keyboard mouse on 1 screen and you can slide from each OS like it was 1 computer.. thats cool
but also lower drives start not easy to come by but i figured i slowly move to 10tb so id get another 10 and another 10.. right now i copying files from my freenas drive in unraid... and is RAID-Z6 thats just the data and 2 parity as i dont know tha Z6... right now in my server i using a Crosshair ROG Asus board.. and i have 1TB 2TB 2.5TB 6tbnas red pro.. mixed Green Black and Red Drives.. if you know much about the errors or reports i can shoot you an email comet424@msn.com maybe you can explain it better
this computer AES-NI CPU Crypto: No not sure what that does..
so i wantedto slowly upgrade my drives to bigger ones go with enterprise or Red pro as they basiclly the same..and when you need server grade memory and board.. how much that roughly cost.. i figuredi need that but even Acer Home Server H340 doesnt even use server grade ram..
i was looking at a Dell R710 computers from usedservers.ca but i also like those bays 24 hard drive bays.. and no point in going to SAS drives no one seems to carry them and they soo expensive too
i did see at canada computers mini itx board ll51 version but they dont sell the cpus for it or i have to goto a Gaming mini itx ll51 and go with the 8th gen version..
but i can also use my crosshair v mobo as the pfsense router.. i just try to keep hydro low since in ontario we pay more for hydro then anyone else.
so many options and for your data to be reliable what so special..
id like to make a server that.. but if you have 2 servers making copies is there no program to double check that the 2nd server has the file uncorrupted so you wouldnt need ecc ram and board -
I agree 100% with this.
Install on any decent SSD and you'll have no problems.
If it really concerns you you can remove SWAP and move /var and /tmp to RAM. But it shouldn't concern you. The write life of any reasonable quality SSD will far exceed whatever pfSense can do to it.
Steve
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ah ok no i just asked because when i started to try it they talked about you install on a usb and then you install a ssd for cache... and ive never bought a ssd as they always been too expensive and i had laptop drives... so i have never even tried.. frig i have never tried water cooling cpus either...
but ill get a SSD 250 gig or 500gb i guess. i still figuring pfsense there is some things i like some other things i dont like.. like not being able to edit the dhcp leases names without having to add it at the bottom.. i wanna rename stuff like i can with my asus router...... plus i not sure what the AES-NI CPU Crypto but ill probably convert one of my asus gaming motherboard and cpus to it and forget this low power crap cpu ill just use like quad core... -
@squarecircle also for your important data you mentioned raidz6 which is that one and i read unraid not best for data checksum what you use to make sure it secure no corrupt files as i even seen flexraid as i want a secure data using pfsense want secure network from hackers or whoever and secure data or is windows server 2016 best way to go
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AES-NI is an encryption cpu instruction set, instruction sets are like sets of computer code that are set in "stone" (silicon), this is more secure because the code cannot be altered or messed with as it is a physical structure of transistors. It's also faster to process things this way too. Pfsense community edition 2.5 (coming in the future) will require a CPU with AES-NI, so future proofing yourself by getting one now is a good idea. (See this article: https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-and-aes-ni.htm )
So RaidZ6 is just the ZFS file system version of Raid 6, ZFS is just an awesome file system that has a lot built in to protect against bit rot and other rare issues and errors. It really protects data integrity, which is why I choose it with FreeNAS. Google it up and read up on ZFS, it's a next-gen file system like BTRFS which is also awesome but I've only used ZFS myself. This is really only relevant for long term data storage on a NAS or SAN.
Also Comet424, try and finish each sentence and organize your thoughts a little better, it can be hard to read and understand what you're trying to ask. I struggle with it a bit too as I have ADD, but just try work on it a bit.
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ah ok ya my ADD gets better of me
its because i read alot there is so much info.. frig i went to college in 2000 for network technician job or administrator graduated but there were no jobs it was so saturated. but since i let most of it slack not keeping up to date i find technology gone soooo fast beyond me lolso you dont use unraid at all... the reason i went to unraid i was getting annoyed with zfs i having issues i transfering files the data sets the i cant move files off my freenas i can copy to but cant move or delete as i dont have a unix user rights or something i forget the error windows cant delete or move its frustrating.. i think i may use it or windows server2016 or as a backup server of the more important data from unraid.. and i didnt like freenas if and when i moved files from the freenas to my windows machines the diskspace didnt get more in freenas it was taking up more space i was running out of diskspace yet i moved 500 gb off the freenas..
maybe its not setup right but i just got fed up and plex server doesnt update on its own and unraid does..
as for btrfs i read it talks about its bad to use not mature yet... and go with refs i dunno too many file systems when you look upbut ill try to look for a server grade least pfsense working on these old dell desktops and ill just use a gaming machine..
i picked up a ssd wd blue yesterday first SSD with a 12TB gold drive.. man those SSDs are soooooooooooooooo light i was like is there anything in there ... so i got a 250gb one to try man she light..
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also if i wrote something you confused about above re ask what i ment.. to me it all makes sense but i know with dislexia it comes out wrong or i dont use enough periods..... etc it gets better of me.. for that ya i truly sorry (: -
i know this pfsense chat but you seem very smart in this other stuff too i had another question if i have a unraid and it rsyncs to a freenas if data on teh unraid bit rots wont it bit rot the freenas or should i be scrapping unraid all together. i just like it its easier to use then freenas but i do like some things freenas has so there is no happy medium or best solution windows i guess lol
