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

Reply via email to