On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:14 AM, mayak <[email protected]> wrote: > I have inherited a used an HP DL160 for use at a data center to act as a > principal firewall --
I have some HP DL120G5's in service. Initially they were set up with the built-in SATA hardware RAID. This is *useless* to protect your system on a disk failure. The whole machine comes tumbling down (at least that was the case with FreeBSD 8.x they were running). I reconfigured them to use geom mirror instead, and everything has been much better since. The FreeBSD kernel does a fine job managing the mirror all by itself. There is very little disk I/O that goes on with pfSense anyhow, so you won't notice the CPU load. All that said, I'd go with SSDs and configure pfsense to use memory file systems for /tmp and /var to limit wear. I do this on my main data center firewalls. I don't even bother mirroring the SSDs since the whole system is "mirrored" by pfsense to a twin box. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
