Thanks. Now to find one.
I canāt seem to find any QGSA-4120-A1 units (or the 5120) for a reasonable price right now. There do seem to be plenty of low cost QGSA-3120-A1 however. It would appear that theyāre an earlier generation of hardware, but I can not find any information on the actual hardware inside of it. Does anyone happen to know what the hardware is inside or if it would be compatible with an opensense build?
Iād avoid the older model, itās definitely socket LGA1156 or older.
I know a fair number of users here used the recommended Titan low profile CPU cooler, so just as a data point, the fan on the Titan died on me after 2 years of use. Granted, thatās 2 years of always-on use.
If youāve got one of these in production, it might be worth checking to see if the fan is still working!
Solid premade option?
Or has pricing on the components/better hardware available?
There are significantly better options in the same price range.
Example : HP s01
I think thatās a pretty good price.
Iād rather have something with AES-NI personally
Still continuing my deep dive into a cheap route (Iām pretty frugal).
Local market place has Dell SFF with a 3470 for $50.
I was hoping I could get a much smaller profile, but I donāt think I can do that without a significant price increase.
Iām looking for something that I can eventually add into my rack for a router. I like the looks (and performance) of the Qualys QGSA-4120-A1 Guard Scanner Appliance mentioned above. Price wise, if I can find something <$500 Iām interested. So, two questions;
- In this price range and format, is there something other than the Qualys I should be looking for?
- I have found the Qualys on ebay, but have never bought anything there. What questions should be asking and what should I look out for?
Good luck finding oneā¦ they do not come up often.
You can get a HP 290 for around $100.
Cheapest on eBay right now is $150+shipping, which is similar pricing when checking the sold items.
My mistake. The recent sales were on the HP S01, which regularly come back in stock for ~$100.
Finally getting around to setting up the QualysGuard I got a few months back and was re-reading through the 1U and Mini-ITX threads. Have a Noctua Fan Controller and was curious how you set it up in the QualysGuard.
- Did you just use the 3 Way Splitter and keep 1 Fan disconnected or keep the 4th fan running?
- Where do you keep it set to keep the noise down but have sufficient cooling? āNo Stopā mode?
- Was there a free SATA connector on the Power Supply to use the NA-AC4 input cable?
are any of your intrusion detection settings are different? do you have an vpn tunnel running or so other features that you didnāt use on OpenWRT
On other thought is something OS and driveer wise is taxing the system causing the heat potential throttleing issues.
First things that come to mind - specifically the IDS bit.
Hey guys. I noticed there hasnāt been a lot of activity in this forum lately. The Dell mini PC I repurposed just died when we moved and I need a new pfSense box. I was curious if anyone would make a 2024 recommendation to handle home use, Frontier Gigabit, only one or two VPN connections (mainly myself), and playing around with the plug-ins from time to time to just check them out. Iām fine with used gear for this.
Thanks for your feedbackā¦
I never built a device but keep looking into something. every time I look at old used equipment for the task I find a few dollars more gets a new device with more power effecient hardware. I think I want to make a N100 processor based device using the ASROCK N100DC-ITX board. Embedded N100 processor, one PCI 4x slot (I think typing from memory) one M.2 NVME slot uses standard DDR4 ram.
Using a 2 port 2.5GB NIC, and 16GB of ram and the board I was around 225 for a new router/gateway device that is probably overkill but is only clicking 12 or so watts to run. the cost pays for itself in one year I think.
Should probably just look for something like a Prodesk 400 G4 or similar and add in whatever NIC you want. Itās going to be less and use approximately the same energy. Will also have full bandwidth slots which canāt hurt.
Granted, this IS a thread about building your own and on itx but, if your primary motivation is the total draw, no sense in throwing money after the n100