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    What hardware is everyone using?

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    • M Offline
      MrGlasspoole
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      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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            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
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              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
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                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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