Hello, > Are we talking fan noise? Hard drive noise? Fan noise, the 2850 (2U box) have 600mm fans with high speed, so it is very noisy. And at the boot the fans are in full speed it is very noisy !
Hard drive at 15k, are noisy to, but less than CPU. I have a 2850, with ESX you can't have VM in 64bits (CPU to old and VMWare don't work on this CPU family), but ESX is in 64bits I have now a 2900 (4U box), fans are bigger 800mm, so they turn slower and the 2900 is less nosily. And you can have 64bits VM on ESX. For the power consumption : on 2850 one CPU = 110W (if my memory is good), so I think it is more 300W. The 2900 consume more. I don't remember my consumption measure. It is probably overkill for home, but not when you have, firewall, layer 7, squid, traffic shapper, vpn for 50Mbits traffic with a lot of computers ! 2014-05-20 18:00 GMT+02:00 Brian Caouette <[email protected]>: > Are we talking fan noise? Hard drive noise? > > Also a comment was made about power. What are we talking? > > > On 5/20/2014 2:59 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > > On 20/05/2014 02:12, Chris Bagnall wrote: > > Forgive me for saying so, but that's a massive overkill for routing a > 15Mbps connection. Granted, it'd be entirely appropriate if you were > routing multiple gig transits in a datacentre environment where the power > consumption might be justified, but in a home environment, you're just > burning through electricity for the sake of it. Of course, if you're going > to run pfSense as a VM under a hypervisor with several other VMs, then I > take all the above back :-) Kind regards, Chris > > Not to mention that if I ran a PE 2850 at home there would probably be > complaints about the noise!!! Those things *scream* in the audible sense!!! > > > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing > [email protected]https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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