Worth up/side-grading to SG-1100 from PC Engines system?
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Current board is:
PC Engines APU2
AMD GX-412TC SOC
4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)Any benefits in going with an SG-1100? Might be getting FTTP 300/30 at some stage. Might that affect the decision?
Thanks
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That APU2 board should be ok for that "future" 300/30 fiber internet connection.
My understanding on the APU2 systems is that, until you throw OpenVPN or other encrypted connections at it, it does fine. Enable those, where it really needs a fast-ish processor, and it starts to limp along. It's only got a 1GHz quad-core Jaguar processor in it. Are you running anything like this on that board now, or plan to in the future?
Here's a reddit thread about it, from a year ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/8y9jad/whats_currently_the_best_amd_option_for_a_pfsense/Jeff
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I've got a few site to site IPSec VPN's set up into my client's LANs, and might like to play with the inspection side of pfsense as an education.
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I'm pretty sure the apu2's cpu has aes-ni offload. That should be fine for quite a few years, even when using encryption. eg openvpn/ipsec vpns.
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Ive run both with similar perfromance experiences.
I prefer to run ZFS for reliability, and you'll have to stick to the PC Engines for that
