[Guide] What equipment to buy for Sonic 10 Gigabits Fiber

[haodiep]

I posted earlier in the thread about a $200 machine from Woot and a 10G card from ebay. I've found the same machine on ebay without storage for $70: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155674136738

Find a cheap m.2 or sata drive you've got laying around (ask the IT team at work?), install your ebay 10G card and pfsense/opnsense and carry on.

Use that HP PC as the router?

[tarzxf]

I posted earlier in the thread about a $200 machine from Woot and a 10G card from ebay. I've found the same machine on ebay without storage for $70: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155674136738

Find a cheap m.2 or sata drive you've got laying around (ask the IT team at work?), install your ebay 10G card and pfsense/opnsense and carry on.

Use that HP PC as the router?

Yes. Add a 2-port RJ45 10GBe PCIe card, and install pfSense. That's my plan. There are smaller machines, but for $70 + $50-60 for a 10g card and an old hdd/ssd/NVMe, it's not a bad start.

[artakamoose]

Yes. Add a 2-port RJ45 10GBe PCIe card, and install pfSense. That's my plan. There are smaller machines, but for $70 + $50-60 for a 10g card and an old hdd/ssd/NVMe, it's not a bad start.

Be very, very careful buying 10G cards on eBay or even Craigslist. A lot of those cards are knockoffs of questionable origin. If you do take a chance, be sure there's a return policy and verify the yotamark before you install it in your machine. If buying off craigslist, you should be able to verify the yotamark before handing over the cash.

[haodiep]

I posted earlier in the thread about a $200 machine from Woot and a 10G card from ebay. I've found the same machine on ebay without storage for $70: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155674136738

Find a cheap m.2 or sata drive you've got laying around (ask the IT team at work?), install your ebay 10G card and pfsense/opnsense and carry on.

Use that HP PC as the router?

Yes. Add a 2-port RJ45 10GBe PCIe card, and install pfSense. That's my plan. There are smaller machines, but for $70 + $50-60 for a 10g card and an old hdd/ssd/NVMe, it's not a bad start.

Can I buy the HP Elitedesk 800G3 Mini instead? The SFF is too big.

Can the 800G3 Mini upgrade with 10Gb card?

[tarzxf]

Use that HP PC as the router?

Yes. Add a 2-port RJ45 10GBe PCIe card, and install pfSense. That's my plan. There are smaller machines, but for $70 + $50-60 for a 10g card and an old hdd/ssd/NVMe, it's not a bad start.

Can I buy the HP Elitedesk 800G3 Mini instead? The SFF is too big.

Can the 800G3 Mini upgrade with 10Gb card?

Per https://www.hardware-corner.net/desktop ... 0-G3-Mini/ it lacks a PCIe slot.

[haodiep]

Yes. Add a 2-port RJ45 10GBe PCIe card, and install pfSense. That's my plan. There are smaller machines, but for $70 + $50-60 for a 10g card and an old hdd/ssd/NVMe, it's not a bad start.

Can I buy the HP Elitedesk 800G3 Mini instead? The SFF is too big.

Can the 800G3 Mini upgrade with 10Gb card?

Per https://www.hardware-corner.net/desktop ... 0-G3-Mini/ it lacks a PCIe slot.

It has M.2 PCIe x4 slot.

Can use M.2 slot of 10Gb card?

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05371240#AbT12

[artakamoose]

Can I buy the HP Elitedesk 800G3 Mini instead? The SFF is too big.

Can the 800G3 Mini upgrade with 10Gb card?

Per https://www.hardware-corner.net/desktop ... 0-G3-Mini/ it lacks a PCIe slot.

It has M.2 PCIe x4 slot.

Can use M.2 slot of 10Gb card?

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05371240#AbT12

The M.2 slot is for a WLAN card. Besides that, there's no external opening for a PCIe card.

[artakamoose]

I just found out you can't use a Netgate XG-7100. For whatever reason, they don't support SFP+ RJ45 modules. Thankfully, I found this out before I pulled the trigger on a used one.

[haodiep]

Per https://www.hardware-corner.net/desktop ... 0-G3-Mini/ it lacks a PCIe slot.

It has M.2 PCIe x4 slot.

Can use M.2 slot of 10Gb card?

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05371240#AbT12

The M.2 slot is for a WLAN card. Besides that, there's no external opening for a PCIe card.

There is M.2 to PCIe riser.

How about thr Lenovo Thinkcenter tiny M720Q or M920Q?

It seems we can use the pcie riser for those models.

[artakamoose]

It has M.2 PCIe x4 slot.

Can use M.2 slot of 10Gb card?

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05371240#AbT12

The M.2 slot is for a WLAN card. Besides that, there's no external opening for a PCIe card.

There is M.2 to PCIe riser.

How about thr Lenovo Thinkcenter tiny M720Q or M920Q?

It seems we can use the pcie riser for those models.

Good catch!!!

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