Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-11-26 Thread Ryan Coleman
I’ve done the full install and with a 64GB SSD - I sliced off 50GB for the OS and the rest for a swap (I like to overkill that sometimes). It’s performing VERY well. We don’t have to reboot the firewall… ever. On Nov 25, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Volker Kuhlmann hid...@paradise.net.nz wrote: On

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-11-26 Thread compdoc
Bottom line, squid and SSD are not a good combo. Ive used several SSDs over the years running pfSense and linux and windows OSes. Work just like hard drives, except might actually be more reliable. There is one exception: none of the SSDs I used were PC Engines.

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-11-26 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 27 Nov 2014 04:41:42 NZDT +1300, compdoc wrote: Bottom line, squid and SSD are not a good combo. Ive used several SSDs over the years running pfSense and linux and windows OSes. Work just like hard drives, except might actually be more reliable. From the discussion in this thread

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-11-25 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 30 Oct 2014 00:12:05 NZDT +1300, Odette Nsaka wrote: I'm going to switch from MMC/SD to SSD on APU. Good move. Does anyone have any suggestion or experience? Are SSD drives on PC engines shop reliable to make a full install or do you suggest to stay on NanoBSD install? Full of

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-11-03 Thread Sean
Ok. Admittedly I'm too lazy to read all of that but to throw in my 2 cents this is what i built my pfSense on back in summer of 2012 and I have no regrets. Total cost was just under $200 like 2 and a half years ago. It has no moving parts, low wattage, and I've not had a single issue. Very

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-11-03 Thread Jeppe Øland
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Sean m...@thegeekclub.net wrote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161493 -- notice the 4,000,000 MTBF Of course this stuff is all no longer for sale but my point here is I went out of my way to get an mSATA chip designed for embedded

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-11-03 Thread Sean
HA! well.. its been running non-stop for 2.5 yrs with zero issues so uhh.. 21,900 hours and counting so far. Not sure why you have such bad luck. I've not had a bad SSD yet. In my gaming PC i've got a couple Corsair 128GB SSD's in a software Raid 0 running good for 3 years now. Got a few

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-31 Thread Jim Thompson
On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Jeppe Øland jol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Jim Thompson j...@smallworks.com wrote: On the other hand, I tend to distrust manufacturers that shipped completely unreliable drives without any thought. Kingston/OCZ/Crucial are all in this

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: Jeppe Øland Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 18:46 I've been on an Atom board with a Kingston SSD for like 3 years now ... In that time I've gone through 3 dead SSDs (which Kingston replaced). Due to that I'm now running the nano build ... the SSD seems

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Jim Thompson
On Oct 30, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Jason Pyeron jpye...@pdinc.us wrote: -Original Message- From: Jeppe Øland Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 18:46 I've been on an Atom board with a Kingston SSD for like 3 years now ... In that time I've gone through 3 dead SSDs (which Kingston

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Jeppe Øland
3 year old Kingston SSDs are not like new Kingston SSDs. Agreed. On the other hand, I tend to distrust manufacturers that shipped completely unreliable drives without any thought. Kingston/OCZ/Crucial are all in this boat for me. As for Nano, I thought it mounted almost everything as RO and

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Jim Thompson
On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Jeppe Øland jol...@gmail.com wrote: 3 year old Kingston SSDs are not like new Kingston SSDs. Agreed. On the other hand, I tend to distrust manufacturers that shipped completely unreliable drives without any thought. Kingston/OCZ/Crucial are all in this

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Seth Mos
Jim Thompson schreef op 30-10-2014 16:33: On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Jeppe Øland jol...@gmail.com mailto:jol...@gmail.com wrote: 3 year old Kingston SSDs are not like new Kingston SSDs. Agreed. On the other hand, I tend to distrust manufacturers that shipped completely unreliable

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Jeppe Øland
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Jim Thompson j...@smallworks.com wrote: On the other hand, I tend to distrust manufacturers that shipped completely unreliable drives without any thought. Kingston/OCZ/Crucial are all in this boat for me. I’m sure I’ve been burned at least as badly by these,

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Josh Reynolds
Every data I've seen on them sucking has to do specifically with NTFS, which the newly released firmware update is supposed to fix. We are using 840Evo's in all of our storage arrays, and haven't seen any issues(EXT4/ZFS). Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer SPITwSPOTS,

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Jim Thompson
On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Dave Warren da...@hireahit.com wrote: On 2014-10-30 13:06, Jeppe Øland wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Jim Thompsonj...@smallworks.com wrote: On the other hand, I tend to distrust manufacturers that shipped completely unreliable drives without any

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-10-30 17:15, Jim Thompson wrote: On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Dave Warren da...@hireahit.com wrote: Buy quality instead of junk? ... Even a cheapo 30GB/60GB/whatever SSD is more than enough for pfSense and makes a far more reliable solution than external flash. I strongly disagree.

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread compdoc
Things will get outrageous soon with the advent of M.2 PCI SSDs on a x4 connection. The speeds of m.2 on x4 do look amazing, but the prices and sizes of them probably means that not many people will be tossing them into their firewalls anytime soon. For projects like firewalls, and to

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Jim Thompson
On Oct 30, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Dave Warren da...@hireahit.com wrote: On 2014-10-30 17:15, Jim Thompson wrote: On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Dave Warren da...@hireahit.com wrote: Buy quality instead of junk? ... Even a cheapo 30GB/60GB/whatever SSD is more than enough for pfSense and makes

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-30 Thread Jim Thompson
On Oct 30, 2014, at 8:00 PM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: Things will get outrageous soon with the advent of M.2 PCI SSDs on a x4 connection. The speeds of m.2 on x4 do look amazing. Now explain why a M.2 PCIe x4 SSD would be more expensive than a M.2 SATA SSD.

Re: [pfSense] APU and SSD: full install or NanoBSD

2014-10-29 Thread Ryan Coleman
I did a full install yesterday... It worked out pretty good - 50GB used on a 64GB drive and I went through the auto/guided setup instead of the manual (which I did the first time and it bombed). On 10/29/2014 6:12 AM, Odette Nsaka wrote: Hi all I'm going to switch from MMC/SD to SSD on