Recomendations Disk Drive to Work with PFSense

felipefonsecabh

HI!
I'm using PFSense as Firewall and router and my company and after a 1 year working, my harddrive (A commom SSD Kingston) presents bad sectors failures.

I would like your opinion, for uninterrupted operation is a SSD or normal HDD better?
I was looking at some business SSDs like the DC500R and DC500M, which one do you think is best to work with pfsense?

"According to Kingston, the DC500R is “optimized for read-intensive applications” while the DC500M is a jack-of-all-trades drive suited for heavy read and write access. Both drive families include error correcting code (ECC) to mitigate data corruption and are self-encrypting with AES 256-bit encryption."

Gertjan

@felipefonsecabh

A running-off-the-mill pfSense installation,
or do you have Suricata / ntopng / snort / pfblockerng / "get it get worse ?", all loaded to the max ?

The question is : how many write cycles ?
A 10 seconds search (freebsd show read writes to disk) told me :
iostat -c 3
systat -iostat

EEC for a pfSense drive ? Wow ... My pfSense data is important (that why I back up the most precious stats etc), but is certainly not mission critical. A daily (automated) backup of the config.xml will do it for me.

felipefonsecabh

@Gertjan hi!
I don't have any these packages installed.
I have many open-vpn site-to-site and ipsec site-to-site connections (50) .

Outputs:
systat -iostat

systat -iostat
					/0   /1   /2   /3   /4   /5   /6   /7   /8   /9   /10
	 Load Average   ||

		  /0%  /10  /20  /30  /40  /50  /60  /70  /80  /90  /100
cpu  user|
	 nice|
   system|
interrupt|X
	 idle|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

		  /0%  /10  /20  /30  /40  /50  /60  /70  /80  /90  /100
ada0  MB/s
	  tps|XXXXXXX
da0   MB/s
	  tps|
da1   MB/s
	  tps|
da2   MB/s
	  tps|
da3   MB/s
	  tps|
pass0 MB/s
	  tps|
pass1 MB/s
	  tps|
pass2 MB/s
	  tps|
pass3 MB/s
	  tps|
pass4 MB/s
	  tps|
pass5 MB/s
	  tps|

iostat -c 10

	   tty            ada0              da0              da1             cpu
 tin  tout KB/t  tps  MB/s  KB/t  tps  MB/s  KB/t  tps  MB/s  us ni sy in id
   0     0 11.0   12   0.1   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   2  0  2  3 93
   0   234  0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   1  0  0  3 96
   0    78  0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   2  0  1  3 94
   0    78  0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   1  0  1  2 96
   0    78 15.2   66   1.0   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   2  0  0  2 95
   0    78  0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   2  0  0  3 94
   0    78  0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   1  0  1  2 96
   0    78  0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   1  0  1  4 94
   0    78  0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   1  0  1  4 94
   0    78 10.8   55   0.6   0.0    0   0.0   0.0    0   0.0   2  0  2  5 92