Drive recommendation for pfSense

[cactus]

Packages will include:
Squid Caching
Snort IDS
HAVP

All running on a D525 Supermicro Atom. Internet connection of 5/1Mbps. This is for a friends home office and will have 3 trusts, office, wireless, and house(wired). I was thinking a ~30GB SSD, but am unsure how much snort logs to the drive. TIA

 

[ehorn]

<irrelevant response> No idea how to answer the Q, but I lol'd at the names "Squid" and "snort"...</irrelevant response>

P.S Nice "How-To" on Infiniband/Ubuntu... Thanks for compiling.

peace,

 

[Patrick]

Personally for that type of application I would just over provision and let the thing go. This is my Supermicro X7SPE-HF-D525 based pfSense config. Speed wise, that is going to be plenty. Big thing there is that you do not want to deal with ever needing to replace the drive. One thing I would advise against is using a USB drive for this.

 

[apnar]

I'd drop in any old laptop drive if you have one laying around. Performance is likely not a factor at all. The 30g SSD would be great if you have one already but may be overkill, although as Patrick says you don't want to worry about replacing it and the SSD may give you a longer life without any moving parts.

 

[cactus]

This will be all new parts so nothing is going to be reused. He is not a very computer savvy and keeps hardware for a long time(his current workstation and server are 6 years old this month), so reliability is first priority.

 

[Patrick]

The real reason I like the SSD is just because you have someone that might move the box and crash a drive. The "good" news is that snort logs are not something that are 100% necessary for functioning Internet access.