Got this to use as my primary firewall, as the i226-v nics are compatible with Opnsense, and power efficient. The processor is also very efficient while still giving decent performance, even with IDS/IPS enabled on a Gigabit Internet connection. My only gripe is that this should still have a fan. Without the fan, it would regularly get up to 70c when busy, but adding a silent 140mm on top of the heatsink with some stands and a grill has dropped it to 30c avg and 45c max. Also, unless you actually want/need 6 ports, there are cheaper ones out there with 2/4/5 ports that are similarly good options for Opnsense. Read more

Purchased the barebones version of the unit, and added 32GB of DDR5 Corair 4800MHz sodimm. On first boot, didn't see anything on the screen, but after a few minutes, the unit POSTed. It must have took a few minutes to do a memory check with new memory. After than subsequent boot were fast. This unit is great for a firewall. Running pfsense 2.7.2 and using 5 of the interfaces in a homelab setting. Read more

Starts up, but never responded to keyboard, never attempted to load OS from flash drive. Got very hot quickly. No output to display. No instructions included. Returned for refund. Read more