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Steve Gailey
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2022
East to build and add disk and memory to. Performance seems great too. Nice that it has six NICs too.
Guilherme
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2021
PfSense running with quite a good setup and some vlans, working like a charm
LegoDad
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2021
If you want to have a reliable PFSense firewall, cant do much better than this. Enough network ports, plenty of grunt and can add enough memory and storage for caching, etc. Runs slightly warm to the touch which is showing the passive heatsink is doing its stuff. Wish it was cheaper but you get what you pay for - Not a lot of money gets a badly specced generic chinese mini pc that's badly cooled so buy once and get something decent.
CS
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2021
Have had it run solid for around 2 months now and it has not missed a beat, hopefully will be equally as reliable long term. Rock solid metal case which doubles as a heat sink makes it feel a very premium product which partly justifies it’s price.Celeron CPU copes well with multiple VLANS, VPN server and client and a 500mbit WAN connection.Have mounted it sideways on the wall so that it’s tucked away out of the way. Best of all, if you have your own WiFi APs and have FTTP with BT, you can use this to connect directly to the Openreach modem and skip having to have the BT Hub router altogether.
Pat
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2020
I think this is a great product! Protectli's level of support is why I purchased this - for my primary pfSense router, not big on "maybes" for this device. But the support afterwards, only self-support at this time, has been nothing short of steller so far. I have not contacted them, but probably will be, as I'm not able to get HDMI to VGA adapters working with any computer monitor, but my 60' Samsung TV loved it (and wife not impressed with bootup sequence on family TV *grin*). So, I think they note this, but I need to find out a bit more about that.Hardware wise, it is SOLID and heavy! Probably the most solid hardware device I've bought in a very long time. with an SSD, I almost feel like I could drop this on the deck and it wouldn't care (yeah, but ...no...) No fan, but temp is consistent with
ropel
Reviewed in Italy on July 21, 2020
MiniPC veramente eccezionale. Performance di tutto rispetto, soprattutto in base all'utilizzo cui è destinato. Corredato di tutti gli accessori necessari (ad esempio cavi sata e supporto per un disco da 2"1/2), due slot sodimm per la memoria, msata, connettore per schedina wifi opzionale. Costruzione molto robusta, silenziosissimo (non avendo ventole), lasciato acceso senza interruzioni lo chassis esterno si scalda un po' (arriverà al massimo a 40°, in questo periodo in cui in casa ce ne sono più di 30), ma dissipa perfettamente. Le 4 porte USB, la HDMI e ben 6 porte di rete ne fanno lo strumento ideale per farne un firewall molto più potente e versatile di molte soluzioni in commercio, potendo installare una infinità di sistemi differenti come pfsense, distribuzioni linux generiche o customizzate
jcgoobee
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2019
I've been a die-hard fan of Ubiquiti gear and have been using my EdgeRouter Pro-8 for a few years. It's a very reliable router and the configuration learning curve has been fun and challenging at the beginning. As much as I like the EdgeRouter, it has its limitation and something just doesn't seem to work, such as the L2TP and OpenVPN (which is a pain in the behind to configure).A few months earlier, I have been hearing some good things about pfsense so I have started digging up some YouTube videos about it. A few months later, I took the plunge and purchased a Protectli Vault, installed pfsense in there, and I couldn't be any happier. The hardware is not cheap, nor I believe a good quality and prosumer class of router / firewall should be cheap to begin with, but is it worth it? After using it for a few days, I would say YES! I put 32G of DDR4 and a 256 mSATA in there, and the box is able to handle everything, and more than everything that my EdgeRouter was unable to handle. The speed is amazing and it just works! It does not have a fan, so it's completely silent. The temperate is always less than 29 degrees at the highest but could go down to 26 in general. I did the raw ISP test and was able to do have 950mbps down from my 1G connection, did the iperf tests and able to get close to 99% full speed. With pfblocker and suricata running, the WAN speed reduction is no more than 5 to 8% and I am totally fine with it, considering that there's a lot of filtering going on in the background.The box is still in the lab VLAN for now, as I want to migrate my good old configs from my EdgeRouter (firewall rules, VLANs, NAT etc) and make sure they work, before I put it in the production LAN, but I'm quite confident that this box will do a great job.One thing that I wanted to bring up, was that I did return the other Protectli 4-port vault, since the HDMI port could not function properly without resetting the CMOS. I do not have problem with this one. Also, I contacted Protecli support via their email for an inquiry, and within an hour, I got an email back from Brent, their technical support employee with feedback, even with his direct line and asked me to call him back if needed. I did and he picked up the phone right away and helped me out on the spot. TOP NOTCH CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!! I rarely see this level of support nowadays and good luck to get support from Ubiquiti unless you use their forum. Protectli does not just make great products, but their support is amazing. You spend quite a bit on the hardware, but you do know that the company supports what they sell without giving the customers grief.Please give me a thumbs up if you find this helpful. Thank you!
KMShark
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2017
4-stars so far - will likely upgrade to 5 stars if it's stable. So far there is a LOT to like, very sturdy due to heavy heatsink - which provides confidence in it's reliability. After hours of run-time, the temp of the heatsink stays the same. The power adapter is also high quality - it doesn't even get warm.Everything included worked well to get 16GB of ram and a 1TB SATA SSD installed. No 'quirks' with BIOS settings, it just seems to work well and just hope that it will be reliable.I did get ESXi 6.5U1 installed after a few hours of hair-pulling - but if you have trouble search for ESXi customizer powershell script. Have to do a few things to get the ISO you need with the ne1000 drivers disabled (VMWare loads that driver but it doesn't support the specific intel nics on this board) so that forces vmware to load the e1000 drivers which include support for these nics.
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