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Review on Protectli Vault FW6A Firewall Micro Appliance/Mini PC - 6 Port, Intel Dual Core, AES-NI Barebone by Brian Shakey

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Stay patient if you have installation image challenges - this is an awesome piece hardware regardless :)

Like other reviewers I'm very impressed with the Protectli FW6A in terms of size, performance and build quality.This device provides professional grade capabilities that I needed beyond my Ubuquiti EdgeRouter Lite (which is also a pretty decent high performing device). My FW6A purchased after seeking some model advice from Protectli (big shout out to Brent) and was fulfilled by Revain.I got my FW6A set up and running very nicely using one outside and three inside ports. There were a few hardware set up issues along the way. The space for 2.5" SSD was very tight causing me concern with power and data cable room when closing the device - I went with an mSATA device to resolve that. Next the 8GB USB drive that I set up with a pfSense installation image was not recognized, which I suspected as a BIOS version issue. Installing the BIOS update required a bootable USB drive and I considered using a USB floppy drive to get around that. I had a old 512M USB drive tha

Pros
  • ‎3.1 GHz celeron
Cons
  • The size is quite large compared to other mini PCs