1u Home Build

[Exactly]

Hello all,

Recently found OPNsense and love the concept.

I'm looking to make my own 1u build, has anyone else give this a try?

This is what I am looking at, advice/suggestions/critique all welcome  :P
(yes this may be over the top, but consider it a bit of fun/hobby)

Chassis: https://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/512/SC512F-441B
Mobo: https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSM-F.cfm
CPU: https://ark.intel.com/products/88179/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G4400-3M-Cache-3_30-GHz  (Socket: 1151, supports AES)
RAM: 4GB (Mobo is DDR4, so 1 stick of 4GB low profile)
SSD: 850 EVO

As I say, anyone got any suggestions to this build, or advice, it'll be greatly appreciated.

(this isn't to avoid buying a ready built firewall from one of the recommended vendors, I just enjoy building PCs etc. - once I am up and running, I will be making a donation to this project)

Thank you

[weust]

Don't forget the 1U CPU cooler.

And it depends on what you plan to do with it, and your internet speed up/down.
The dual core might not pull IPS/IDS and VPN, etc all at once.

I have a C2758F Supermicro board. 20W TDP, four onboard NICs.
Mine runs as a hypervisor running a two core VM for my 300/30 connection.
Not using IPS/IDS as I would need all 8 cores for that.

Just something to keep in mind.

[Exactly]

Thanks for the reply

Of course on the cooler  :)

At the minute it's hypothetical, connection speed will be FTTC, so approx 40-60Mbps down and 15-20Mbps up

Nice setup! I may upgrade the CPU to a i5-6500, or similar, that should do the trick?

[weust]

That still depends on what you want to enable in terms of features.

[bringha]

Well,

this board is not the optimum wrt power consumption and some of the components are somewhat oversized

Perhaps consider
+Supermicros X11SBA-LN4F-O (Attention: Must be hardware revision 1.02)
+ with 8 G RAM (4 is also sufficient)
+ Supermicro SuperDOM with 16 GB
+ 1 U chassis is SC505-203B

I build already the 5th system with that config and I am very happy with that (since using 1.02  ;))

Br br

[weust]

But you also don't know what type of features he wants to use.