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Title: Hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade
Post by: Mundan101 on July 01, 2021, 02:20:23 pm

Any hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade?

Currently have a qotom i7 been using for the past 2 years, absolutely love that thing.  Excellent performance.

Looking to explore options with 10G NIC.

Wish list:

Decent or lower power consumption
rack mount, 1U ideal but got plenty of space
Front face IO
Mix of 10G and 1G Intel Nics

TIA

Title: Re: Hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade
Post by: klox on May 10, 2022, 05:19:35 pm

Did you end up pulling the trigger on something? I am interested in very similar specs.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade
Post by: rungekutta on May 10, 2022, 05:41:11 pm

Is noise a concern?

Title: Re: Hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade
Post by: klox on May 10, 2022, 06:00:36 pm

Mild concern. It will be in a rack in a basement with a wall separating it from my office. My other 4Us have 120 mm fans and I don't hear anything. I should probably grab a 40mm to check how that will sound first.

Title: Re: Hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade
Post by: rungekutta on May 11, 2022, 07:11:05 pm

I’m asking because 1U, powerful and quiet may be a tough combo. You could build something around SuperMicro SuperChassis 515M-R804 and for example X12SPZ-LN4F motherboard? Won’t be quiet but plenty of performance.

Or alternatively a 3u or 4u white box around for example Inter-tech 4U-40248 and an ASRock Rack x570d4u with a modern Ryzen CPU. Will be power efficient, powerful, and can be made whisper-quiet particularly if you swap out the fans for Noctuas.

Or buy a secondhand Dell PowerEdge R730 which are supposed to be reasonably quiet (never seen one in the flesh).

Choices…

Edit: except out of those, only the first option front face i/o…

Title: Re: Hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade
Post by: supern00b on May 11, 2022, 09:29:04 pm

I can recommend the scope7 5510

Title: Re: Hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on May 11, 2022, 10:11:39 pm

Why not an official OPNsense appliance? We run 6 DEC3860 now and they are performing great. There are various models available, the DEC3860 being the top model and most expensive one.

HTH,
Patrick

Title: Re: Hardware recommendations for 10G upgrade
Post by: rungekutta on May 11, 2022, 10:46:24 pm

Looks sweet. I guess it’s based on the Epyc 3201. What kind of performance do you get out of it?