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If you want something less "risky", ASRock Industrial has mini PCs which are great. I have an AliExpress N150, fully passive which worked just fine but then I s

by p_ing 1y ago

If you want something less "risky", ASRock Industrial has mini PCs which are great. I have an AliExpress N150, fully passive which worked just fine but then I saw the shiny of the Arrow Lake-H platform. Ended up getting a NUC BOX-225H for Opnsense. Way overkill, it's great! https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/industrial-computer-system https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/industrial-computer-system The Arrow Lake-H platform can have up to 28 PCIe lanes where as the N150 gets 9. Something to think about if you want dual NIC + plenty of NVMe drives.

enronmusk 1y ago
That's $550 on amazon/newegg. It's not in the same price range at all.
- p_ing 1y ago
  Oh, my bad, I don't recall mentioning price in my post. Rather I mentioned a system that has the PCIe lanes to accomidate 2.5G NICs + 4 NVMe drives without compromises.
  - akho 1y ago
    For the price, you can get four N150, with 36 lanes. It's a pointless comparison.
  - wokkel 1y ago
    Use an odroid h4: 2x2.5gbe and a 4*1 m.2 bifurcation card to get 4 nvme drives there. Performance is limited due to ethernet anyway.
moondev 1y ago
I have several asrockrack mobos and this is the first time I am hearing of asrockind, very interesting and there are a TON of different models here Do any of these asrockind machines have a BMC? I just got a minisforum s100, it's 4c8g n100 and POE which is pretty sweet. If only it had Intel vpro or some sort of BMC it would be perfect. I can attach a pikvm but looks like I need to do surgery on it to interface with the power switch. WakeOnLan has been really unreliable in my tests so far.