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YOU SUCK I keep buying stuff. It's fun though.

Great video 🎉 What are your thoughts on virtual firewall vs physical? You mentioned potentially converting it to running a virtual firewall instance and I’m curious your thoughts and opinion on running a virtual firewall on proxmox or some other vm as a primary boundary

Sir good day, sir I want to ask, if the OS of this dell 3050 micro is installed on the 2.5inch ssd, but you put an NVME SSD that also has the OS installed, but you don't use the 2.5inch ssd will it boot up?

It's just a shame they don't do a slightly larger version that would allow a 3.5" drive. I could whack my 20TB drive in it and run it as a mini server with all my media , CCTV, etc, then cluster it.

how ironic, I was just looking at this system as I wanted the qotom unit with 4 10GBIT ports that you reviewed in Feb but in a 1U case. I am probably going to pick one up this week :)

Uh oh. I got the fanless version coming in soon and got 64gb of ecc rdimm memory to go with it. You said you were having issues with ecc memory though? Could you elaborate? I specifically got this kit: A-Tech 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR4 2400MHz PC4-19200 ECC RDIMM 2Rx4 1.2V Dual Rank ECC Registered DIMM Awesome video as always!

I want a 2 or 3u with 1 pcie slot for a half height gpu and 5bays for plex / jelly

I have a question. Am I the only one who doesn't care for the idea of an all in one unit? I know it's overkill for a home lab, but my NAS doesn't do anything but NAS stuff. My router doesn't do anything but pfSense. My other services I don't consider 'critical' and can live in VMs on any of a number of mini-PCs I have around, but to my way of thinking a NAS and a router should always be stand alone devices.

I bought one after seeing this video and just had it die in my home lab. I would be wary of this PC as a home lab server, doesn't seem to be up to running over a long period of time. I've only had it a little over a month, so that doesn't bode well for it running as a server.

Can this ATOM CPU drive storage performance enough to saturate a 10Gbps link? To me it doesn't seem like it would be a viable choice for fast storage. I could be wrong but I am guessing the performance would be similar to the performance you might expect from an external USB 3.0 drive and no where near capable of 10Gbps.

I have the small, fanless version. It chokes hard on paperlessngx.

This is something we can finally recommend!

My only gripe about this is the cpu in this pretty much

Sweet.... but never heard of them ...

Is this or the Minisforum MS-01 better for a 10gb router with OPNsense /pfSense?

WHY did they put the fan there? I've been tearing my hair out all day looking for something affordable to be a router. I thought the Epyc 4004 would be affordable. Those systems aren't remotely affordable. Neither any Xeon E-2xxx no matter how old.

Plex Transcoding would be my only concern. And the lack of cheap network rack depth SATA expansion bays.

What app are you using to monitor the statistics of the unit?

I *just* bought myself a new router, if I had known about this I might have spent a little more and grabbed it instead. Heck I might get one anyway just because Qotom actually followed up with a rackmount version.

this is the first time sth shows something thats actually cheap for what you’re getting. a comparable solution would cost over $500

Look neat. Having a dual power source function would be cool feature to add. Even better would be PoE power support. I am surprised they didn't make the chassis out of extruded aluminum.

These look to be pretty awesome but damn - I wish there was some type of distributor here in the US. On both Amazon and Aliexpress, you're looking at $40 - $50 for shipping.

I would buy this in a HEARTBEAT, but Proxmox 8.x has a broken ixgbe driver in the 6.x kernel series! If they had used something other than the X553 10GbE SFP+ ports, this would be an instant sale. I already bought the previous desktop version and it works great, but I have to keep the Proxmox kernel at 5.15 - otherwise no 10Gig-E!!

What is the benchmark/CPU info program that you are using?

WHY use such a low-spec CPU, though? :(

I like this unit. Looks like aa good Christmas gift for me.

What I'd like to see is a drive cage inside the box to support the 1 or 2 3.5inch drivers, so why make the user makeshift a way to make it fit? Give us a inexpensive solution that works nicely.

Really dig the new Key Lessons Learned section. That MBA is really paying off! 😊

These use DDR5!?

What kind of throughput can you route through it if you put an SQM rate limiter (fq-codel or CAKE) on the interface that'd be acting as a WAN? If you gradually adjust the rate limit up, does the actual throughput reach the configured rate? Some ARM machines can't even do 1 gigabit with SQM. On my 1-gigabit home network connection, I run OpenWRT on an x86 box with an Intel X550, with a 2.5-gigabit link to the cable modem and a 10-gigabit link to the LAN switch. I've seen some places say that gigabit internet doesn't need SQM, but I still see a huge improvement when I go from SQM disabled to SQM enabled, with it set a bit below my max steady-state upstream and downstream rates.

I'm using the non rack-mount version and unfortunatly I don't achieve 10gbps over SMB. I have a fast enough NVMe installed and as OS I'm using OpenMediaVault which is based on Debian. Maybe this is related to the bug you mention in the video at the end.

So you can't hook the SFP+ port to switch using Pfsense?

I'll be receiving my new pfsense box with 4x2.5g and 2x 10g sfp+ ports im the mail by the end of this week. Powered by am intel n100. Wonder how they stack up in comparison. Would you go with the n100 or c3558 for a pure pfsense / opnsense with 10g?

You should test if you can run these off of one of those POE ethernet splitters

What Programm is used for the Test in the background 15:16 ?

I bought this a while ago. FYI the Intel Atom C3758R is not good enough to route 4 gbit of nasty legacy PPPoE connection under FreeBSD 13 based OPNSense, because that is single threaded it seems. It will work great with modern ISP's that use DHCP instead of legacy PPPoE like my ISP does. It will also work with a Openwrt VM, but it will get like 2.5 gbit per thread on PPPoE after you enable the multicore setting I don't exactly remember.it works well but I don't like the fan at the bottom. They at least now have a grill instead of a hole at the bottom.I'm going to build a NAS from it. another thing I had was some weird bug turning it on sometimes. You can adjust some setting I don't remember in the BIOS for that. I had no problem using ECC memory I had (Think I used crucial). Also IOMMU groups worked well. I had to replace it with a MS-01 to get full speed internet because of the PPPoE and having no ASIC to deal with that.. the I5 MS-01 is more then enough. I did not find a way to have the QAT used for the PPPoE connection. I also do not like I could not use something like 40 mm Noctua fans to get rid of the heat. the X553 gets quite hot with copper modules in it. I had a problem also with my QNAP QSW-M2108-2C switch with the X553 ports, it nearly drived me crazy until I changed the switch. My Chinesium "Onti" switch and later bought Mikrotik CRS310+2S(long model number) worked fine.

Now if they only sold it in my region...

I got really excited when I saw the AST2400 chip onboard but too bad they dont use it as BMC. Its more useful then a console port.

Did you guys read my mind? I was literally on Amazon looking for something like this, with just enough ports for my needs and a decent value ($).

X553 has given me quite a bit of grief, but mostly only when linking to Mellanox/Nvidia based cards and switches (fiber and DAC). The X553 ports will lock up so hard even a reboot and even a poweroff/poweron through the BMC wont fix it, had to physically yank the power a few times to get the port back up.

I don't need a fabulous desktop experience. I just need Winserv 2022, NordVpn and Qbittorent on a super power efficient box that I can rdp into from my laptop.

Is this fan noise related to being ran sitting on a table with no gap for air to escape?

NCA-1515A :) Brand new on eBay with 16GB ecc ram, sata ssd, WiFi, lte and fully functioning IPMI

Wow, I bought this 2 months ago, and now there's a video for it.

cute little system but with a fan on the BOTTOM they need their head examined. it's a rack mount unit so there is no way to get any air INTO the system when mounted. fan should be on the back. Also would really love to see a Xeon D series here for a firewall appliance (C3758R is just to slow for application inspection) and they need to fix ECC support.

Are there people who uses this device as an OPNsense machine wich some vlans some a VPN server some vpn clients and a gbit internet connection and tell how itnperforms i'm curious to this device... Currently have an dell optiplex i5 and want to replace it with something like this ...Worth it? And do you guys have some thoughts on backdoors or bios updates on those qotom devices?

What's the idle power consumption?

Does 18.6Gbps routing capacity mean that when all 4 10Gb ports are used, the effectively run at half the speed?

You asked what I wanted to see. I want to see a real NIC SPF+ 4 port NIC like the intel 700 series that just works of out the box with proxmox etc. Even after the latest upgrade to proxmox 8.8 the intel 553 nic still doesn't work properly out the box. I still have to recompile 5.20.3 and fix compilation errors to get the 553 NIC working!!!

you should look at the (OpenWRT dev board) Banana Pi R4 that has 2x 10GbE SFP+, 4x GbE and HW acceleration with a new MediaTek chipset. All for 100$. Bit tinkery but super cool hardware and for the price unbeatable