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> It's hard to beat a $50 craigslist dual+ core box, a second nic and pfSense unless you pay for your own power. An edge router lite uses <10w. How much does
by justinsaccount 8y ago
> It's hard to beat a $50 craigslist dual+ core box, a second nic and pfSense
unless you pay for your own power. An edge router lite uses <10w.
How much does it cost to run the pfsense box over the course of 2 years?
- FooHentai 8y agoThose dells pull about 30W at near-idle. Let's assume 40W given an extra NIC and the workload running. US domestic power averages about 12.3 cents per kWh. So 36 bucks a year versus 8 bucks per year for the ERL.
- inferiorhuman 8y agoDon't forget that the ERL will cook itself to death unless you improve the cooling. The case itself will reach temps of about 40C under normal operating conditions. https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/CPU-fan-mod-cpu-temperature/td-p/431105/page/3 https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/CPU-fan-mod-cpu-tem...
- Fnoord 8y ago> Don't forget that the ERL will cook itself to death unless you improve the cooling. It will? No, that implies it is inevitably going to happen with every device which is not the case. A better wording is it might, depending on (unclear) circumstances.
- inferiorhuman 8y ago> It will? No, that implies it is inevitably going to happen with every device which is not the case. A better wording is it might, depending on (unclear) circumstances. At those temperatures (40C exterior temp at idle) cooking to death is pretty certain. Look at the complaints of glitchy ERLs as a proxy for impending death. Meanwhile it's pretty clear that the Octeon runs hot and UBNT didn't provide sufficient cooling.
- Fnoord 8y agoAgain, I am not denying there are people who have issues what I am saying is we don't have enough data to figure what the signal/noise ratio is regarding dying devices.