Hardware support for Intel QuickAssist?
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"I built my own and saved a few bucks!" doesn't induce me to invest the huge sums of money involved in fixing all of this. There isn't enough glory to make up the spend.
@jwt
well that might be true in the US. In europe the price difference between a pfsense branded unit or a similar supermicro unit is significant.
for example:
sg-4860 @pf store = $699
sg-4860 @EU-webshop = $1066
so around $367 difference in price between US & Europe.Now the thing is, you can get a supermicro c2758 for around $1100 in europe / a c2558 for around$850. (in 1U case)
To conclude:
there is a $200 price difference .I work in the education/non-profit business, they are scraping by as it is …. $200 is a big deal for them.As a member of this community i would love to pay the extra $$ because i think it is more then worth it.
Unfortunately at work, it'll be supermicro until the price difference is <= $100 -
So between this:
@jwt:
The QAT unit in some (not all) C2000 SoCs is a cut-down (about 1/2 the execution units) version of the older "Cave Creek" core.
and your earlier statement that Cave Creek will not be supported by the QAT implementation in FreeBSD, does that mean that FreeBSD won't support the built-in QAT in Rangeley, either?
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"I built my own and saved a few bucks!" doesn't induce me to invest the huge sums of money involved in fixing all of this. There isn't enough glory to make up the spend.
@jwt
well that might be true in the US. In europe the price difference between a pfsense branded unit or a similar supermicro unit is significant.
for example:
sg-4860 @pf store = $699
sg-4860 @EU-webshop = $1066
so around $367 difference in price between US & Europe.Now the thing is, you can get a supermicro c2758 for around $1100 in europe / a c2558 for around$850. (in 1U case)
To conclude:
there is a $200 price difference .I work in the education/non-profit business, they are scraping by as it is …. $200 is a big deal for them.As a member of this community i would love to pay the extra $$ because i think it is more then worth it.
Unfortunately at work, it'll be supermicro until the price difference is <= $100Even worse here I guess.
when I buy a SG4860 from Germany I pay €980,56 +shipping at around €20 (around $1110)
https://shop.voleatech.de/en/shop/sg-4860/ (so Yes a pfSense partner)When I build one myself:
A Supermicro A1SRi-2558F (€290), Supermicro SC-101i case (€70), 8 GB DDR3L ECC memory (€50), 120 GB Adata SP550 SSD (€45) and PicoPSU of 80 watts with a brick (€75) I pay €530,00 (around $600)That's almost half the price. Dont get me wrong here jwt if it was affordable I would get it from the pfSense shop/partner but it clearly isn't in my case and it's not that Supermicro is an obscure manufacturer.