Pros & Cons
Pros
Barebone unit paired with teamgroup 8g ram and a msata ssd. That leaves me with a spare nic to do something with someday if i can think of anything that needs a dedicated nic. Gb router interface for around $300; what's not to like.
Cons
The patriot viper steel is definitely dual ranked and incompatible. There is a jumper inside that locks the unit on 100% of the time and disables the power button. Skill, patriot and corsair was not clearly labeled.
Highlights
Quality
I like that it's also future proof with the 2.
My unit only came with 4gig instead of 8, but a quick chat with the seller resolved the issue completely.
Shipping
Contacted support, performed some verification troubleshooting with them (time zone differences were a bit of a pain, but not u... Read More
Just received the credit, response was very fast.
Competitiveness
This is an awesome unit, works great with pfsense or opnsense.
I have it setup with pfsense, adblocker, and intrusion detection, and it's been stable and fast.
Like others have reported, after setup the unit that arrived would not post or boot with both sodimm slots populated.
Bought a barebone unit and paired with a teamgroup 8g ram and a msata ssd.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 24 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 11 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Received the first unit had some issues installing an os on the system
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Crashed during boot crashed during install never would complete install
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
During troubleshooting it was found that the ram was bad
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Reseating the ram didnt help unit was received doa
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Contacted support performed some verification troubleshooting with them time zone differences were a bit of a pain but not unexpected and received a shipping label to return the dead unit and a new one expedited to me
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I purchased the 8gb 64gb model but received the 4gb 64gb model a 23