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 course, come on, you've got a pretty decent PC with heaps of
RAM. Not exactly embedded-sized, save the VGA output you never need
anyway, and the power consumption. Nano is for rock-bottom hardware
specs, which the APU is not.

Thinking SSDs are the way to go I put in a PC Engines SSD (good price,
afterall) with updated firmware as soon as it became available in
mid/late May, and added squid and squidguard for my own protection. Bad
idea. Pfsense locked dead for the first time in early Sep, got pretty
hot too (does the CPU clock/power control fail with disk IO errors?).
Bottom line, squid and SSD are not a good combo.

The new SSDs from PC Engines with physon controller are much better,
good SMART support too, but my plan is to run pfsense of the SSD and
locate the squid cache and log files on a 2.5" spinning platter. With PC
Engines' special SATA cable it might still all fit into the case.

pfsense 2.1.5

Volker

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