NEW 2.5GbE Fanless Router Firewall Virtualization Hosts

We review two NEW 4x 2.5GbE fanless firewall solutions to see how the new Intel Celeron N5105 units perform compared to the J4125 units we looked at previously. We have pfSense, OPNsense, and Proxmox VE virtualization running on these nodes. We are also going to discuss how these fanless mini PCs are to order, and some of the nuances of ordering via AliExpress.

STH Main Site Article: https://www.servethehome.com/two-fanless-intel-celeron-n5105-4x-2-5gbe-options-reviewed/
STH Merch on Spring: https://the-sth-merch-shop.myteespring.co/
STH Top 5 Weekly Newsletter: https://eepurl.com/dryM09

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Where to Find STH
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STH Forums: https://forums.servethehome.com
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ServeTheHome

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Where to Find The Unit We Purchased
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We are documenting where we purchased these units in the forums to keep one record. You can find that here for this unit: (Bitly to the STH forum resource since apparently YT does not like the URL)
https://bit.ly/3z9nv21

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
01:09 Pricing Barebones and Configured
03:04 External Hardware Overview
07:38 Internal Hardware Overview
12:06 Intel N5105 Performance
13:28 Networking Performance
14:21 BIOS Walk-through
15:34 pfSense – Proxmox VE – OPNsense Bare Metal and Virtualization
16:33 Power Consumption
09:11 Virtualized or Physical pfSense and OPNsense on Proxmox VE
18:18 Key Lessons Learned
21:42 Difference between this and the Netgate 4100 build quality
23:41 Wrap-up

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Other STH Content Mentioned in this Video
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– Topton J4125 4x i225 Unit: https://youtu.be/IJhlqb4iGn4
– Hunsn J4125 and i225 Unit: https://youtu.be/wUcDg_ms0is
– TinyPilot Raspberry Pi KVM: https://youtu.be/l7i-hm_E2ls
– Dell OptiPlex 7080 Micro: https://youtu.be/5mTUTX4QNkg
– Dell OptiPlex 7070 Micro: https://youtu.be/Ozzq_99Z3kw
– Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro: https://youtu.be/RZMf_DnRvq8
– HP EliteDesk 800 G6 Mini: https://youtu.be/o416e0iyE30
– HP EliteDesk 405 G4 Mini: https://youtu.be/SFBpQJoU8L0
– HP EliteDesk 705 G5 Mini: https://youtu.be/IBY-C8Ym7wU
– HP Not Enabling AMD PSB: https://www.servethehome.com/hp-amd-ryzen-pro-psb-status-tested-via-a-hp-elitedesk-805-g6-mini-asus-gigabyte/
– Lenovo PSB Locking Ryzen CPUs: https://youtu.be/KAVlHy05XzM
– Lenovo M90q Tiny: https://youtu.be/GTl8fiKEr8g
– Lenovo M80q Tiny: https://youtu.be/4_4Ulnfk0Sc
– Lenovo IdeaCentre 5i Tiny: https://youtu.be/ztn7VjNzY7k
– Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q-2 Tiny (Gen 2): https://youtu.be/Kr1tD6TEnek
– Apple Mac Mini M1 10GbE Edition: https://youtu.be/4gXUfAgLKj0
– Dell Megatrands: https://youtu.be/dUVmDcv782k .