Just a note of personal experience. I've deployed ~20 pfSense firewalls that had SSDs (both cheap and rated 'good' from Newegg) over the past 2 years. I am not convinced SSDs are more reliable. Nearly every one has had an SSD die or become corrupt. We switched them all to USB sticks and haven't had any more issues. Plus it's easier for us to ship a replacement USB stick to the client and have them plug it in than to have them pop open the case and replace the drive.
Maybe we've just had bad luck with SSDs, but I'm not convinced they are ready. -A On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 12:40:34AM +0100, Chris Bagnall wrote: > > > Which brings me to the question: the last time I performed a pfSense > > 'full' install (i.e. not embedded) was several years, and many > > versions ago. What's the best practice when using an SSD? Use the > > CD-based installer to do a 'full' install, or continue to use the > > embedded NanoBSD image? > > Modern SSDs are at least as reliable as HDs. I've used SSDs > with pfSense for years (including IDE DoMs) with full install > and never had a failure yet. > > > As an aside, there are several options on the "Advanced" tab > > relating to NIC performance options: > > - Disable hardware checksum offload > > - Disable hardware TCP segmentation offload > > - Disable hardware large receive offload > > Has anyone done any tests / is there a list maintained anywhere with > > > details of which NICs are "problematic" with these, and hence should > > be disabled? The motherboard I'm using is a mix of Intel and Realtek > > gigabit NICs (em and re respectively). > > I've used Supermicro Atoms with 2 Intel NICs onboard and > with a dual-port Intel NIC added. I would be also interested in > suggested list of settings for Intel NICs. > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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