[Guide] Spice up your rack with these stylish & sexy chassis for your pfSense build!

Which one did you opt for Commander @JDM_WAAAT?

the top one is serverbuilds blue…
the 2nd one is the AMD one that looks cool
the red one I think is e3-1270 v2 w/ 16GB of RAM
the orange one at the bottom is LGA 2011

FireEye NX900

Got the FireEye NX900 today. It was very well packaged and extremely clean.

It’s actually very quiet once full boot is completed, but it does have the potential to be very loud. It has a huge blower style fan at the front that cools both the CPU and the network card/chipset area.
16GB of DDR3 ECC UDIMM is a sweet find as well, considering I paid $75 shipped for the entire thing.
Power supply is YM-5201D or PWS-202-1H.

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$35 OBO free shipping
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$20 + potentially expensive shipping
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I have two Nexpose 1U devices I got from our data center that use the same squirrel blowers…can hear those things purr from across the house :joy:

Tried to build out pfsense using your guide but just didn’t like the way it turned out…HP290 it is while I figure out what I can do with these…

What do you mean?

iBoss network filter

Similar case, fan, and PSU setup as the FireEye NX-900
Has a X9SRI-F LGA 2011 Supermicro Motherboard with 3x4GB DDR3 ECC REG (haven’t checked the CPU yet)
Also included a 160GB Intel DC S3500 SATA SSD
Again, pretty quiet on boot.

Gold mine! Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2

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I got the 1U fever, put in a low offer on two units and got accepted

nice grab. one thing to look out for is the motherboard generation. i was looking at these as well and some of the auctions that had the lid off you can see the motherboard and one has a x7 and the other has what i think is a x8 or later mobo. it’s close to the one jdm has but it has a pci slot at the bottom and dual internal usb ports. didn’t look to hard into it since it’s not the setup for me. hopefully you got x9s or something you can use :crossed_fingers:t3:(other than the cases)

just bought a qualys 4120 and two onesign os201. the 201s should be here wednesday and the 4120 between thursday and the following monday.

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Yeah, I think the iBoss went right from socket 775 to 2011. I haven’t seen anything 1155 or 1150.

interesting. all the ones i’ve seen are 775 then.

the fireeye 5300, have you been able to find any specs on it? i see it’s a dual socket proprietary motherboard but i can’t find what motherboard model. quessing 2011 socket but can’t find any specifics.

I believe the FireEye 5300 uses the H8DGU, a dual AMD operton motherboard.

FireEye 5300:

H8DGU:
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It looks like it’s using this riser.
RSC-R1UU-2E8:

The chassis is some variation of 113TQ-R700UB:
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interesting. is it worth it? assuming at that price it’d be good for proxmox or something similar but have heard that opterons aren’t worth it and draw a ton of power/produce a lot of heat.

Not supremely worth it, but it is really cheap. The chassis does look really cool and should be easy to repurpose.

Anyone want an…

Extreme Email Engine

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Barracuda Networks Firewall 660

It’s much longer than the CSE-512/S-1200 based models, but that’s mostly because it has hotswap 3.5" at the front.

Supermicro H8SCM-F motherboard with unknown AMD Opteron processor and 4GB of RAM. Power supply is a Supermicro 350W 1U PWS-351-1H that is 80+ Gold.

It has a very interesting Intel NIC that is wired to the front of the case. I’ll have to do some research on that and see if it’s usable.

It also came with 2 x WD 500GB WD5003ABYZ Enterprise class HDD and a sneaky little Apacer 8GB SSD tucked away.

the short depth 1u cases, do they need rails to be rackmounted or will the ears in the front be enough? not adding any drives other than a ssd for the os. main storage is on a nas.

They are light enough to be mounted with just the ears. The ears are made of thick steel and are very sturdy.