I swear availability of HW suitable for a small firewall for 500 - 1000 Mbit/s is really bad.
What's available, what's affordable, ... preferably in Germany.
Any suggestions?
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what i hate about the bigger nucs is that they still use sodims ... when the case and motherboard is big enough to fit normal size ram , is it cause normal ram cant be mounted sideways/flat ?
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I find it awkward that those ASRock nucs and mini PCs with Ryzen embedded processors are not really available.
ASRock links to shops in your country, but those again don't publish prices, they look like they don't take private customers (only businesses) and you have to "ask for a price".
These were all the options from the Minisforum (only 2x LAN devices):
I tend towards the EliteMini HM80 option, because it comes with 32, instead of 16 Gb RAM for the same price or less.
They all fulfill my requirements and some... the only way to chose is for future proof-ness and "what else" you can dow ith them.
What do you think? They're all available and in stock from EU, so it's 3-4 days delivery to Germany. (Expect NAB6, that's from HongKong, but I think it's overkill...)
Prices are ok-ish.
16GB of RAM is something what datacenter level firewalls have. You absolutely do not need such amount for home usage let alone 32GB.
Fell free to load all Suricatas, Snorts, Squids (which none of them I recommend in the first place) and you will barelly exceed 8GB.
See what the problem with "not wasting money" is now?
You're not wasting any...
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