Review on 💻 Qotom 4 LAN Mini PC I5 Q355G4: Intel Core I5-5200U, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 16GB SSD, OPNsense-Compatible by Raymond Iglesias

Found in Revain Warehouse/Market. This is quite rare with these devices. A bit overpriced for what you get new IMHO but spot on with a 20-30% discount. I have an i5/8GB and a cheap 16GB "ssd" is enough for pfSense. Too much for my 150/50 LTE connection, even with multiple OpenVPN tunnels, Snort IDS and a caching proxy working with massive state tables, but I think I'm ready for the future. The 4x Gigabit Intel ports are great. 1 WAN, 1 Green Zone, 1 WiFi Mesh, 1 IOT/Red Zone. Could do this across all VLANs since I'm running managed switches, but this allows me to force specific ports to connect to VLANs instead of tagged traffic which I prefer (physical security). Some time debated whether to get or not. Just take one, you won't regret it. ESX/Xen will probably work fine, but I like bare metal for the extra performance, thermals, etc. Also, there are other virtualization servers already out there.