Quick firewall hard drive question...

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Any suggestions as to the best method of storage for a firewall, that's going to be running pfsense and these packages; HAVP, Squid, SquidGuard, snort, traffic shaping and possibly a VPN at some point :rolleyes: and a few others....

Should I get a big USB stick? --How big?

Should I get a SATA 2.5" or 3.5" HD? --How big?
 
go with a harddrive. As small as you can get. In fact, I'd go with the cheapest HD with a 5 year warranty. Rotational speeds, throughput, IOPS don't really matter for this application.
 
A USB stick will ultimately die because of consumer flash memory's short lifetime of constant read and writes. Squid would cause this to happen soon. I suggest going with a traditional hard drive or SSD. Any size should work, pfSense can run on as little as 1GB of storage I believe. How much you want to dedicate to squid is what will decide things.
 
For reliability id say buy 2 of those hard drives drives and set up a mirror.
 
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