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I'm very new to OPNsense. I got my start watching David Plumb on YouTube. My prime motivation is to isolate my IP video cameras from the rest of the world. And I've always been interested in networking. I did it for a living 25 years ago and I've since upgraded my network to 10 G fiber spanning several buildings supporting family members, IOT, backup file server numerous computers.
I bought a dual port 10G N105 off Amazon for OPNsense, which took 2 1/2 weeks to arrive shipped from China only to discover it had a bad drive controller on the motherboard.
I didn't want to order another one as I wanted to get my firewall configured up and running then it occurred to me. I could use an old file server that has been sitting on the shelf unused for a long time. I pulled it off removes the 16TB hard drive and installed a dual port Intel NIC.
It's been running great for me with a 300 W power supply and that gives me a little headroom to perhaps later upgrade the CPU to one with more cores.
My long term goal is to support the full 10G bandwidth, increase the cores, as I upgrade my ISP service.
To me
300 watts is low comfort food. I'd put 360'watts in the same category. Plenty and likely only using half of that.
I bought a dual port 10G N105 off Amazon for OPNsense, which took 2 1/2 weeks to arrive shipped from China only to discover it had a bad drive controller on the motherboard.
I didn't want to order another one as I wanted to get my firewall configured up and running then it occurred to me. I could use an old file server that has been sitting on the shelf unused for a long time. I pulled it off removes the 16TB hard drive and installed a dual port Intel NIC.
It's been running great for me with a 300 W power supply and that gives me a little headroom to perhaps later upgrade the CPU to one with more cores.
My long term goal is to support the full 10G bandwidth, increase the cores, as I upgrade my ISP service.
To me
300 watts is low comfort food. I'd put 360'watts in the same category. Plenty and likely only using half of that.
