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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header. > http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
