The biggest processor innovation in a decade for these fanless firewalls and virtualization nodes brings a massive performance boost. We take a look at the newest fanless firewall and virtualization hosts from CWWK and Topton and see why this might be the OPNsense, pfSense, and Proxmox VE node of choice for quiet #homelab setups in the future.
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Where to Find The Unit We Purchased
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– CWWK N305:
– CWWK Amazon:
– Topton N305:
If you are trying to save money with the barebones, this is probably what I would outfit the system with:
– Amazon (Affiliate) G.Skill 16GB DDR5:
– Amazon (Affiliate) WD Blue 500GB SSD:
You want something cool with fanless systems, not hot and fast.
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Other STH Content Mentioned in this Video
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– Intel N100 and N200 Fanless:
– Intel Alder Lake Fanless:
– Beelink EQ12 Pro with i3-N305:
– Example of setting up Proxmox VE with OPNsense/ pfSense:
– iKoolCore R1 N6005 Review:
– R86S Review –
– ASRock 4×4 AMD Ryzen 7 5800U:
– Three 6x 2.5GbE Fanless Systems:
– Two Fanless N5105 Systems:
– VMware ESXi and pfSense on a 6x 2.5GbE Core i7 Fanless System:
– 4x 2.5GbE J4125 Unit (Topton):
– 4x 2.5GbE J4125 Unit (Hnsun):
– 4x 2.5GbE N5105 Unit:
– 4x 2.5GbE N6005 Unit:
– Netgate 4100 pfSense Plus Review:
– TinyPilot Raspberry Pi KVM:
– Lenovo M80q Tiny Gen 3 review:
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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
01:38 External Hardware Overview
05:05 Internal Hardware Overview
10:38 Performance
13:17 Power Consumption
15:52 Key Lessons Learned
18:02 Wrap-up
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