Firewall Mini PC N100

Since you mentioned it’s mainly for media streaming. Get an intel gpu with integrated graphics over any AMD chip. Quicksync will benefit you so much, AMD (even dGPU’s) are much worse than Intel’s iGPU. If you ever plan on expanding with say immich, the argument would even be enhanced. I would recomm

I went with CWWK Mini PC N100 Firewall Hardware 2 x 10GbE SFP+, 2 x i226V 2.5GbE LAN. I had to add my own SSD and RAM, but both of which I had lying around anyway, so it was put to use. I have a 2 gig fiber connection, and it never bottlenecks it. Not doing a whole lot with it, just some VPN and dyn

The N100 is a great platform. I've had a few variants and I am a fan of the CWWK CW-NAS-ADLN-K. I think the sacrifice of 2 NICs in preference for a real x4 PCIe slot is a good call. Also being this is a Gen2 board, it moved from a JMB585 to ASM1166 SATA controller with helps dramatically with power

You won’t do much better than a CWWK N150 board m-itx board like https://cwwk.net/products/cwwk-12th-gen-i3-n305-n100-2-intel-i226-v-2-5g-nas-motherboard-6-sata3-0-6-bay-soft-rout-1-ddr5-4800mhz-firewall-itx-mainboard I’ve got this as my mini lab NAS in my 100W mini lab and it draws 28W doing a pari

I would say so... CWWK mini pcs on Amazon has dual 10gig SFP+ ports with quad 2.5gb ports I have the low powered N100 ones added 16Gb of ddr5ram and 128GB Nvme running Pfsense with Works great for multiwan/multigateway purposes I have 1 SFP+ port going to ONT for 2gig fiber 1 SFP+ port going to 10G

its probably a good question to ask specifically what you are aiming for / chasing? because some of thes are a bit contradictory and overspecced the n100 / n150 / n305 etc setups are great for power efficiency and using them as routers / firewalls is great in general but from what you've suggested i

Hello, I did not really know what to expect of the N100 in terms of thermal dissipation so to be on the safe side I went for the Noctua instead of the passive cooling. Now, the Noctua is really really, really quiet. I set it to spin at ~1,100 rpm (35%) and honestly I cannot hear it. So in terms of n

If silent is your goal then this is going to take you down the N100 with NVMe path. Given your low disk requirements you could do this easily with a small all in one N100 system from the likes of CWWK/GMKtec. Start by installing a pair of 1 or 2TB NVMe drives in a RAIDZ1 cluster and you have a nice

I use this CWWK N100 board with this RAM and it has been solid for me (pics). I haven't been able to get it to idle under 20W, however.

I run a 3-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph, and Opnsense as firewall and AdGuard as DNS server. Works extremely well, low TDP and highly stable. Two of the nodes, an N100 and N5150 system are from Topton and the third one, another N100 based mini PC is from CWWK. In hindsight, I would get all CWWK wit