Any new hardware planned for 2021?

[NetMartin23]

Hi guys,
is there any new hardware planned for 2021? Btw. is anyone of you guys attending CES 2021?

Regards
Martin

[audian]

@netmartin23

Yes to new hardware, but no details to share just yet. Stay tuned.
No to CES this year, perhaps next year.

[jchasta1n]

Seems reasonable to assume new hardware will be available with rollout of pfSense+. If I were looking to release a new software brand that was intended to become the future of my company, I would certainly try to do so on fancy new hardware to create as big a halo as possible. I suspect and hope we will see new devices within the next few weeks as I intend to do an upgrade once new hardware is released and would love to be able to pull that trigger this month.

[akuma1x]

Please, please, please, a rack mount version of the SG-5100, please and thank you. Or maybe, because it would be an obvious upgrade, name it the NEW SG-5200.

Jeff

[mwastart]

I hope we see something with some higher clocks. Snort is the most important package to me and I'm not confident in the ability of the current appliances with circa 2015 Xeon D chips running it with a lot of rules at >= 1Gb.

I hope we get something with a Xeon D-1600N series chip or Xeon E.

[Oremountain]

if theres anything coming on the basis of XG-1541 but with a second PCIe Interface/ 8+ 10GBIT Ports i´d buy that without thinking...

[Forsaked]

I hope for something like an Epyc Embedded Platform, like OPNsense did with their current hardware.

[DaddyGo]

@forsaked said in Any new hardware planned for 2021?:

I hope for something like an Epyc Embedded Platform

It has been running for a couple of years, hassle free...
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/M11SDV-4C-LN4F

[Forsaked]

@daddygo said in Any new hardware planned for 2021?:

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/M11SDV-4C-LN4F

Which case did u use, the SCE300?
I also want SFP+ on this Platform!

[DaddyGo]

@forsaked said in Any new hardware planned for 2021?:

Which case did u use, the SCE300?

Yes SCE300 + Noctua (3.pcs.)

• Intel X710-D4 + Supermicro RISER for SFP+ and / or dual rate SFP(s) Intel E1/10GSFPSR
  https://www.fs.com/de-en/products/36431.html

this makes it very configurable

[DaddyGo]

@forsaked said in Any new hardware planned for 2021?:

Which case did u use, the SCE300?

but can be built into this chassis with a smaller trick:
CSE-505-203B

[Forsaked]

Something like this would be awesome:

https://www.lannerinc.com/products/network-appliances/x86-rackmount-network-appliances/nca-4112

[mwastart]

All the Eypc solutions suggested would be awesome! I'm worried though, that Netgate is biased against AMD architectures. I can recall several posts over the last few years railing against AMD over CCX and memory latency :/

[DaddyGo]

@mwastart said in Any new hardware planned for 2021?:

I'm worried though, that Netgate is biased against AMD architectures.

Nope... I hope so

AMD is starting to "eat" Intel.
Xeon vs. Epyc
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/24/digitalocean_premium_droplets_amd/

I have been using the AMD Epyc embedded series for a long time, -
no question with pfSense.

Synology has just switched to:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-ryzen-v1000-series
https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RS1221+

Wonderful solution with 2x10Gig Ethernet
So there are opportunities

BTW:

Of course my desktop pc:
Xeon W-1270 + Intel W480E chipset
Supermicro mini-ITX X12SCV-LVDS-O