THIS 25GbE Server and Firewall Has it All

The 150W PSU is probably to ensure it can deliver all its functionality at once. Your benchmarks showed that it was already using ~51W under load, which looked like it was with none of the front I/O populated. If we add 15W for PoE, dual 10GBaseT SFPs at 3W apiece, USBs in all four ports taking 4.5W apiece, we're already looking at ~90W without adding in populating both SATA and M.2 slots and some potential extra load for populating the 1G and 2.5G ethernet. That's also not taking into account AC-DC conversion on all those wattages, which are wattage at the device, 100W wouldn't be enough for the system fully loaded.

I would run Windows Server 2022 Standard (Education subscription). Call it a day. Run all your drives and run a firewall and router/ remote in Windows.

This would make a great piracy platform. And home media server.

With these types of devices, what is rhe practical use for this? Maybe a head unit for storage and combo networking appliance? Are these for custom firewall?

AAAAAAAAAAAND they dont sell to EU …. F

Hi, is there a link where the product can be bought?

IPMI is absent 💩

GoWin is trusted, and I have two of these. I should be returning 1 unit due to a Nic issue. Other than that, it's a fantastic unit.

This looks like it ticks all the boxes 🤔, I only prefer a Ryzen in there.

What you got here is a China special. It takes a brave person to rev this up in a production environment.

Nothing to see except the new Pfsense or Mikrotik router. 🙂 Also I can run a Mine Craft Server on it.

I would love to know what their thinking is behind the POE Port and what their expected use case is, I'm racking my brain thinking of a use case, and I'm not really seeing it.

So how much do 25gbE switches cost?

They REALLY should have taken a design hint from old stereo equipment for the 'fanless' unit.
Put the heatsinks on the back and/or sides, so air can rise through the fins with convection.
Further, I have decided the ideal way to quietly cool a 1U chassis is with a blower fan ~2/3U thick.
Plop it in there flat, blowing at your parts, Sucking in air from the 'top' which has room because it isn't as thick as 1U.
Route the intake to a slot in the front.
They can be quiet by running at a lower RPM and still push a lot of air.
They just take up a bigger internal footprint. So not ideal for maximum density servers where everything is LEGO tight.
For switches and systems like this one with big empty spaces in them it's great though.

The fanless one looks pretty easy to swap over to a picoPSU, if the PSU fan annoys you. I'm not sure where you'd get the rack full of other fanless things from though…

I love the execution of this and might just pick one up(and supply my own fan-free PSU)
Basically exactly what i've been looking for.

For the i3-N305, instead of Intel taking an Atom/Celeron class processor with the top die being 8E cores 32Xe cores, 1 channel of RAM and 9 PCIe 3.0 lanes, just branded it as an i3
I wish Intel had taked the die used in the i3-1215U and just cut it down differently, since the i3-1215U and i3-N305 at least had the same MSP/CSP(they both used to say $309 before people got mad and intel took them all down shortly after the i3-N305 release). The 1215U is cut down from the i7-1265U starting with 2P8E and 96Xe, cut down to 2P4E 64Xe in the 1215u. For the N305 i wish they had Instead taken the 1265U down to 0P8E 32-64Xe, while still retain 2 channels, ~20PCIe lanes of gen4.
IIRC its mixed so maybe some are 3.0, but even if it were all gen 3, its still 20 lanes VS 9 in the Atom/Celeron class die.

I'd actually pay more for this than the i3-1215U/N305. Yes i do realise that i could order an i5-1245UL and just disable the P cores, and then i'd be left with even more Xe cores, but if there are that many defective i5/i7 that require disabling 4 E cores to make the i3, there must be similar ammounts of defective P cores that could have been disabled to make an 8E core i3, but with lots of RAM and PCIe.

And to counter the other argument: If the i3-1215 exist(ed) at $309 MSP, then an 8E core could exist around the same price as they are all from the same i7-1265U mother die, down to the lowest die, the 2P4E 1210U. i'd personally pay more for a theoretical i3-1220UE/UL, say an extra $30 just to get 4 more E cores, and not have to mess with a mixed architecture.

Yes it would ue more power because it is a larger die, with double the RAM and double the PCIe, but thats a price i'd be willing to pay.

It's decent but missing a few things.

1. In data center world you need dual psu for A/B and hotswap
2. Hot swap fans