Looking for fanless, low power, 64 bit
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This topic intrigued me. So I started looking around for options that might be:
Fanless
Low Power
64-bitHas anyone tried these:
Latte 2750 from http://www.cappuccinopc.com/Latte_2750_Mini_itx_Computer_Small_Mini_Server_with_32GB_64GB_RAM_Memory.asp this has 4 nics.
Intel NUC http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc5cpyh.html
HP T820 http://www8.hp.com/us/en/thin-clients/t820.html -
moved this to its own thread since it was a hijack of where it was originally posted.
My suggestion for fanless, low power and 64 bit would be the SG-2220, 2440 or 4860.
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Have a look in the vendors sub forum : https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=58.0
$US139 gets you low power (C1037U processor), fanless and 64 bit, with good reports back from several people that have bought them.
I'm waiting for one myself, to arrive in the next 2 days.
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I got one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157595
I disabled the onboard Ethernet and bought a dual 860T Ethernet card off Ebay (PCIe x4). It does require you to have a slightly larger ITX case, but I'm ok with that.
I have 2 case fans in push pull setup to "quiet" in the BIOS. I can't hear anything from the machine. Average power draw is <20 watts measured at the wall socket.
The nice thing about the board is it has a lot of CPU headroom, and it also does AES-NI (although right now I am not using VPN).
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Fanless
Low Power
64-bitA little bit more edge data for us would be making it easier to suggest something to you!
Which services are offered?
For how many peoples?
Which Internet connection?
VPN, Snort, Squid or nothing? -
Watch out, I've just purchased the Intel NUC5CPYH and the NIC is not working (not detected by OS) with latest pfsense 2.2.4 :(
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@BlueKobold:
Fanless
Low Power
64-bitA little bit more edge data for us would be making it easier to suggest something to you!
Which services are offered?
For how many peoples?
Which Internet connection?
VPN, Snort, Squid or nothing?When I was looking into this last I was interested in a newer system that ran 64 bit since that is what is more futureproof. I think the Services is a great question. I can see a need for 20 or so OpenSSL VPN connections, or perhaps IPSEC IKEv2 since strongSwan is available now. Also, I would like to learn more about Suricata and IPS in general, but I see a growing need for this technology. Squid is valuable, but I have another solution for that just inside the firewall at this time.
Approximately 150 systems, on a 40 Mbps connection.
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you might want to spend a bit more on such a setup and maybe go 4-8 core atom
if you want to be really cheap, an gigbyte celeron j itx build with 4gb and a 60-120gb ssd would fit the profile
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This topic intrigued me. So I started looking around for options that might be:
Fanless
Low Power
64-bitHas anyone tried these:
Latte 2750 from http://www.cappuccinopc.com/Latte_2750_Mini_itx_Computer_Small_Mini_Server_with_32GB_64GB_RAM_Memory.asp this has 4 nics.
Intel NUC http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc5cpyh.html
HP T820 http://www8.hp.com/us/en/thin-clients/t820.htmlThe setup I'm currently building is like this
2 nodes of each:
8core Atom
passive cooling (basically a industrial metal case)
supermicro board with ipmi, quad gigE Intel
8GB ECC - this can be upgraded
100GB Intel S3700 SSDThat's it, no other fancy pieces.
The CPUs do AES and have enough cores to maybe even fire up a few jails if that ever becomes a feature.
The price was ~$900 each which is pretty OK given it's a server board, good ssd and a "real" case, and all preassembled.