Shocking New 10GbE and 2.5GbE Firewall and Virtualization Hosts

Ooh 10 GbE! You gotta stop showing off these things, I'm going to soon have a pile of them almost as large as my pile of SBCs!

Man, I was looking for the reviews of these units. Right in time!

That's a lot of ports, both for a NAS and firewall, these are a lot of value. Also shoutout to Asmedia for taking up the slack on PLX chips

Thanks a ton for the very quick review between this and the n305. I'll wait for that with an 8 port. They already got the six port out.

I couldn't help but also notice the front panel connector block on the corner of the board. That would make this board super easy to drop into another case with better airflow and a little bit more robust cooling solution for that CPU rather than that semi-passive setup they're running. That would also give options to populate those SATA ports and make this a NAS. beast plus network and vm host. Although power consumption would go up, obviously because you'd probably want to power SATA drives separately from that 12v power brick.

That SFP+ unit is very cool. Would be awesome if someone could reduce cost and size a bit by just producing a unit with 1-2 2.5Gb Ethernet and another 2 SFP+ ports. I would imagine that most people using a unit like this would have managed switches and VLAN's and don't really need all the physical connections on their router.

Just ordered 3 on the same chassis with i5-1240p for Proxmox cluster, thanks for the video!

Nice little machine for pfsense! Love the two 10 gig SFP+ slots. If I get one I'd redo the thermal paste as it looks like a mess. 😁

This is cool! Would be Cool to see a small box like this with 2xSFP+ and 2x 2.5GBe, with like 4 or 6 M.2 slots so we can make our own fast NAS!

Hey Patrick, it would be great to see iperf stress testing for machines that are primary targeted as a networking device. You mentioned that you could do 10Gb NAT but didn't actually show any numbers.

I love your enthusiasm. Keep going!

Would have been great to actually test/verify that the onboard SATA ports and Molex power connectors are actually functional.

The dream would be one with a N100 or N305 with a x540 or newer 10Gb card. Airflow isn't too bad with a CPU that uses 15w or less.

Awesome Review. Keep it up. As usual, I enjoy watch it.

I'm sorry that would be me !! LOL. Good video Patrick !

yes yes, been waiting for this video, been eying these for a couple months now! *hits play

Would have been good to see some raw network throughput numbers on these network devices. It would also be good to see some performance analysis of the device configured as a firewall.

Now we need N305 with 10Gb/s ports (Topton please do it I'm going to buy one)

The orientation of the NICs on the 8-port model means that the RJ45 connector clips will be difficult to unplug when fully populated

Im curious about what kind of throughput these can hit while also doing stuff like IPS. Wonder how that i7 can handle that amount of packet inspection