Intel NUC-like recommendations for home usage? (100MB fiber & ~3 VPN users)
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Your best bet is still:
https://store.pfsense.org/SG-2220/ or
http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-DFF-2220.aspxWith your purchase you support this project AND you get 1 year Gold-Membership ($99) with all the benefits as well.
As I've already stated I do not want Atom box because of poor AES-NI support.
I've just found this box under 200€ (excluding RAM) with dual Intel NICs: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Partaker-I4-Mini-Computer-Fanless-Mini-PC-Windows-10-Core-i3-4010U-i5-4200U-i7-4510U/32608793402.html
ps. Thans for the Prime Circle tip. Based on a few songs they sound very good. ;)
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As I've already stated I do not want Atom box because of poor AES-NI support.
That is not a very informed decision of you. You can't compare earlier 3-digit Atom CPUs with current top of the Line Atoms like the Exxxx or even the mentioned C2000 Atom Cores. Those are FAR better than their old bad reputation. As already confirmed, a C2758 Appliance for example DOES support AES-NI AND QuickAssist and can easily rund and encrypt near Gigabit wirespeed. A C2358 or C2558 (the 2 and 4 core variants) are also having support for AES and QA and do happen to satisfy those, that need around 100-200MBit/s fully encrypted. So no need for strange or shady desktop'ish CPUs with high TDPs.
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Can you be more specific, what do you mean by "poor AES-NI support"?
The ATOM CPU is running a different AES-NI instruction, or something else? My understanding is, the instructions are the same for all Intel CPU if they are marked as "AES-NI" capacbleYour best bet is still:
https://store.pfsense.org/SG-2220/ or
http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-DFF-2220.aspxWith your purchase you support this project AND you get 1 year Gold-Membership ($99) with all the benefits as well.
As I've already stated I do not want Atom box because of poor AES-NI support.
I've just found this box under 200€ (excluding RAM) with dual Intel NICs: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Partaker-I4-Mini-Computer-Fanless-Mini-PC-Windows-10-Core-i3-4010U-i5-4200U-i7-4510U/32608793402.html
ps. Thans for the Prime Circle tip. Based on a few songs they sound very good. ;)
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Another solid option for pfSense HW: https://geizhals.eu/shuttle-xpc-slim-ds68u-peb-ds68u001-a1525974.html
http://www.shuttle.eu/fileadmin/resources/download/docs/spec/barebones/DS68U_e.pdf
- Dual Intel NICs
- AES-NI support
- Various storage options (SD card, USB, SSD etc)
Quite solid price even with a single 2 or 4GB DDR3 memory stick.
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zoltac ci323/ci325
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One of the new NUC's has thunderbolt.
Does BSD support external pci cages for nics?
