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Just my own preference, but I was going the route of NUC and instead landed on Protectli routers. They are meant to be routers/firewalls but work as general pu
by LinuxBender 4y ago
Just my own preference, but I was going the route of NUC and instead landed on Protectli routers. They are meant to be routers/firewalls but work as general purpose PC's and at least at the time costed less than a NUC and have more interface options. They are air cooled and generally run cool unless doing heavy workloads but not a problem in my case. I just set them next to my HEPA filter. One can chose between CoreBoot and AMI bios and many different CPU options.
[1] - https://protectli.com/ https://protectli.com/
- atmosx 4y agoThese are rather expensive for SoHo. I would go with a carambola2 or another module from 8-devices running OpenWRT.
- LinuxBender 4y agoThose are also good options for routers/firewalls. I think Protectli is aiming for devices that can handle VPN encryption/decryption at a decent rate on their Core i5/i7 models. I only mention the Protectli devices because for me at least they were a decent alternative to NUC's and for general computing whereas some of the SoHo devices are less apt for general computing in my experience.
- atmosx 4y agoRight, makes sense.