Firewall Mini PC N100

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

A N100 is overkill unless you're using upside features. That said they can be very power efficient, mine idles at either 9 or 22 watts, can't remember but it's low. I don't think N100/N150/N250 will make any difference, get whatever is most reliable/power saving in your budget. Mine is a CWWK and it

You don’t need bigger than an N100 for a 1Gb link. Fanless can be tricky even in an N100 because they still pull 10-15w which means they will run warm without good airflow. I have multiple CWWK systems N5105/N100/N305 and they have been rock solid for years. They are great bang for buck.

No, it's still a NAS. What you would be building is a NAS. SAS is a different type of connection capable of higher speeds, 12GB/s whilst SATA is 6GB/s. Now in a NAS, you're not going to notice this, at all. It's simply the protocol. An SAS HBA (Host Bus Adapter) would simply allow the use of cheaper

I use this: 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?_pos=2&_sid=e4ff5d3f5&_ss=r Rock stable, their older products have gotten a lot of praise, so I decided to try it out. Very happy with th

CWWK N100 is fine, Just follow all the recommended settings and they just work ! been running N100 16 gb ram, 512 ssd 4 x 2.5 GB intel NICs ! If in a Hot area you Can use USB Case fans or the ones made for Consoles for Extra Airflow (In Fla ! ) A few Years running and no issues "As is Tradition" wit

CWWK Firewall Mini PC Intel N Series N100, DDR5 16G RAM 512G NVMe SSD, 4 x 2.5GbE i226V LAN Got it off amazon like 2 years ago to replace another one I had that wasn't working because it had Realtek for Lan , This one works well, and does good for Home use , especially for the price. I run 1 GB Cabl

In the ITX N100 world, CWWK is the main player. I have a few systems using the CW-NAD-ADLN-K which was a really popular board but I think has been replaced by the NAS-N150-6P. I wrote a post on STH about squeezing the most out of the board and how to upgrade the BIOS and various firmwares.

I have a dedicated ethernet port on the proxmox node that I can use to reliably access the node even if the router is down. Still, I'm worried that the upgrade process will be in a situation where the router is down but it still needs internet access. Is this a concern? I just moved OPNsense from a

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