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      Adding an additional harddrive is failing with soft update inconsistency
      General pfSense Questions • hardware fsck • • Gorf

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      stephenw10

      Of course FreeBSD supports multiple devices. 🙄
      pfSense is a firewall/router and was never intended to support multiple storage devices other than as a drive mirror. That's not to say it can't be done. If you search the forum there are multiple threads with users describing their own solutions for making it work. However all of them operate outside the default pfSense config such that if you need to reinstall and restore for example you need to be sure you can restore any custom scripting you added.
      It's far simpler to just install and boot from the larger drive directly.

      Steve

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      It crashes..
      General pfSense Questions • crash fanless pc hardware • • crc_error_79

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      @stephenw10 Thank you

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      Low budget hardware supported by pfsense
      Hardware • router pfsense hardware • • shoebeee

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      Take a look at a HP t620plus thin client, it needs to be the plus model though not the t620.
      The t620plus is thicker than the non plus because it has a pcie port to add a network card.

      They are quad core 2.0ghz and use around 12-15w of power, you can find them on ebay for around £100.

      The link below has some good information on the t620plus.
      Link to parkytowers site

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      TNSR Hardware recommendations for 10-40gb routing in home network
      TNSR • processor hardware • • MrSliff

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      CAM Status SCSI Status Error usb / cd / AMT
      Installation and Upgrades • hardware • • cloneman

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      I can confirmed this also happens with FreeNAS USB installers.

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      Looking for pfsense compatible 2500Mbps PCIE RJ45 NIC
      Hardware • driver pfsense setup hardware newbie newbuild • • boogz411

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      @stephenw10 probably, I'm not super knowledgeable on how this stuff works in the back end. It does make sense that its a driver limitation, or maybe bug? Either way its nice that autoselect works as it should. Can't wait to get my other cards in and top out my provisioned speed. I can see when running a speed test it maxes out my 1Gbe nic in my desktop 😂

    • luis.gil

      Hardware choice for home/office upgrade
      Hardware • minisys qotom xcy hardware vpn • • luis.gil

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      Raffi_

      All of those links take me to a page that requires login on aliexpress.

      Is there any reason the official netgate solution wouldn't work for you?

      I'm not sure if the SG-3100 would work for the home, office and guest setup using the LAN and OPT1 interfaces. Not sure if the RT-AC87u setup as an access point with a separate guest login would prevent the guest users from accessing the rest of the LAN it's connected to. My feeling is it wouldn't so you might need another interface and AP for the guest if that's the case (SG-5100).

      If price is an issue, I hear good things about the apu2 platform.

    • Sergei_Shablovsky

      How "Firewall Maximum Table Entries size" correspond or depend to total amount of avail for FreeBSD system memory?
      Firewalling • firewall rules hardware throughput speed • • Sergei_Shablovsky

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    • Sergei_Shablovsky

      How pfSense utilize multicore processors and multi-CPU systems ?
      General pfSense Questions • hardware multi core multi cpu setup tuning • • Sergei_Shablovsky

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      Sergei_Shablovsky

      At the first let me say BIG THANKS for briefly but “all that you need” answer!
      And for patience, because I thinking this is one of the most asking question on that forum (and on FreeBSD.org also). :) Take my respect!

      @andyrh said in How pfSense utilize multicore processors and multi-CPU systems ?:

      @sergei_shablovsky Your question from 2/2021 is slightly flawed. The CPU package count is not relevant. Cores (threads) and frequency are relevant.

      Because most of all rack servers are 2xCPU packaged, this is something like default for users that prefer own rackmounted hardware.
      But for Netgate original brand firewalls - may be this is not true default because most of their Motherboards (I remember NetGate using LANNER MB in early models, but after switch to SuperMicro, is this still true using SuperMicro?) are 1 x CPU package. And in this case there are only one ability to increasing performance when You bandwidth grow - more speedy processor with a large Cache 3 level.

      For tasks that are single threaded frequency is what you want, for tasks that are multi threaded you want enough threads to allow the concurrency you need.

      So, may be great idea for NetGate create some reference table for users that prefer own hardware, in which some characteristics (single/multithreaded, requirements of CPU frequency, memory) linked to main services and additional packages (like Snort, Suricata, etc...) that require much system resources?
      To help choose right NICs and server platform.
      Reasonable ?

      The result is a balance based on your goals. If single threaded tasks are your number one concern, you will lean to frequency at the expense of cores. However if you have several packages and many NICs, you will lean to core count at the expense of frequency because you will have many threads needing to execute at the same time and it is more efficient for the computer to have many threads vs having to share.

      The initial question in this topic combine inside two:

      how FreeBSD core manage threads between CPU packages in multi-CPU packages systems (2, 4), because bus between CPUs packages involved, NUMA/non-NUMA/chipkill memory configuration in BIOS, etc...; how different packages/services in pfSense depends on NICs configuration and tuning, CPUs packages numbers and frequencies;

      I hope that helps.

      Really, thank You.

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      Suggestion for Mini-ITX motherboard
      Hardware • hardware newbuild newbie • • Ohiobuckeye7

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      stephenw10

      Generally speaking most things should work. If something works with FreeBSD 11.1 it will almost certainly work with 11.2 or 11.3 (or 12). The sort of regression that would prevent that is very unusual.
      Brand new hardware may require FreeBSD 12 for example or even not be supported at all so it's better to use stuff that has been around for a while in most cases.

      I don't have any specific recommendations though.

      Steve

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      Recommendations for upgrade from apu2?
      Hardware • hardware openvpn gigabit • • DavidGA

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      2nd vote for an SG-5100.

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      pfsense on a fortiwifi 50e
      Hardware • hardware • • Bishop007

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      stephenw10

      What are the specs on it? Is it even x86?

      Steve

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      pfSense hardware selection help
      Off-Topic & Non-Support Discussion • hardware gigabit fiber pppoe router • • alpineaudio

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      @alpineaudio said in pfSense hardware selection help:

      @akuma1x said in pfSense hardware selection help:

      firewall black-boxes

      and more specific, this one's an i5 https://www.amazon.com/QOTOM-Q355G4-Factory-Firewall-Multi-Function-Appliance/dp/B06XNWLR3J/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?keywords=pfsense+firewall+black-boxes+i5&qid=1553882807&s=gateway&sr=8-2-fkmr2

      This one is a much better choice!

      I'm going to get up on my soap box here... keep in mind, you should try to support the pfsense open source project as much as you can. With the Qotom box you found, you're only about $60 away from the "official" Netgate SG-3100 box. I'm not trying to guilt you into a purchase, and I'm not saying you're going to get a better experience with name-brand or not, but being that close in price, I would send my money to Netgate and the firewall project itself.

      Jeff

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      Will this work at gigabit speeds?
      Hardware • hardware intel pfsense newbuild newbie • • tscolin

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      stephenw10

      Like an i3-8100t? Then yes. Easily.

      Steve

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      Hardware 1 Gbits
      Hardware • hardware router config configuration • • Jules13

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      stephenw10

      Hmm, well if you use Squid/Squidguard to do web filtering I would want to see 2 cores there really, at least.

      Steve