Make sure to tick the coupon to get the $50 off.
As far as I can see, this is the cheapest its been posted here for
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What are you trying to do? Make this a router hotspot? Media hub?
thinking of setting up something to act as primary firewall/router with something like pfsense
First review on Amazon says its performance is terrible running pfsense
@BROKENKEYBOARD: Even running virtualized, 8G should be enough. - plus you can replace the DIMM with a 16GB one later.
I'm running my pfsense VM constrainted to 2GB, and it runs fine.
All the other stuff I run on a similar box to this (beelink EQ12) runs in containers, total memory usage is less than 8GB (about 4.5GB right now).
CPU usage when routing 100Mbit NBN is only 6% (doing a speed test), so not sure what is wrong with the amazon reviewers setup).
@qwijibo: Yeah, that's more what I would expect.
Looks like the reviewer is running it virtualised on Windows 11 which seems unusual and certainly can't be helping.
@ESEMCE: Oh yeh .. that sounds like as much fun as hitting yourself in the nads.
Use the right tool for the job - proxmox + pfsense/opnsense is a pretty awesome combo - under windows … not so much.
CPU usage when routing 100Mbit NBN is only 6% (doing a speed test), so not sure what is wrong with the amazon reviewers setup).
Maybe he's routing a 1Gb connection and the 60% CPU use is too much for one core? Not sure how multithreaded the actual routing is 🤔
This is part of one of the reviews on it:
"Small, quiet, low power, all good.
Runs Windows 11 fine, and would not hesitate to use for simple desktop work, was surprised to find Hyper-V can be installed.
Despite disabling a large chunk of services though, 8gb ram isn't enough and deploying a virtualised pfsense firewall brought it immeditely to it's knees. The two NIC cards make this the sensible option for a cheap simple perimeter firewall but throughput capped out at 600mbps (gigabit internet was capable of 870mbps before the pfsense was istalled). CPU's hit 100% instantly on a throughput test."
I personally don't know a thing about pfense, so I can't comment on it.
Probably a driver issue. Proxmox is Linux so there should be good driver options.
Duel gigabit ethernet so yes. Over powered for just that though. Install proxmox and put opnsense on top. Then you can install various other VMs and containers on proxmox
good to be a cheap nas
Image looked like a robot vacuum cleaner.
I don’t see the coupon.
can this one's ram upgrade to 16gb?
It's LPDDR5 ram, so no.
LPDDR5 are chips soldered to the board.
Good alternative to a Odroid N2+ for running home assistant?
is this any good for a router?