Picked up a DEC3920 from OPNsense Shop. US customs held it for 7+ days, after two docusign attempts with Fedex international customer service, they finally released it.
The hardware itself is very well made. Almost a work of art. There is fan noise, though its minor, not like a 1U Dell / Supermicro. You can hear the fan noise go up and down. AMD V3C18 CPU, comes with hyperthreads disabled.
Not sure how much more lab testing I will do before it replaces my Protectli VP2440. I only have 1 Gbps fiber, upgrading to 2 Gbps, so kept the testing simple to WAN on 2.5g interface and LAN on 10g. I didn't have a chance to setup and test wireguard, but since the VP2440 with N150 can handle ~2Gbps wireguard, this should have no problem with my use case.
Pleasantly surprised this thing idles less than the Protectli VP2440 (which is 12w with Coreboot 0.9.1-rc3 with ASPM enabled). Out of the box without having to mess with any settings or tuneables.
Memory
1x 16gb DDR5 Micron Technology CT16G56C46U5.C8H
Speed: 5600 MT/s
NVMe
Transcend TS256GMTE712A 256gb
NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x4
NAND Flash Type,112-layer 3D NAND (TLC)
Sequential Read Speed "Up to 3,800 MB/s"
Sequential Write Speed "Up to 3,200 MB/s"
Random Read / Write "Up to 350,000 IOPS / Up to 330,000 IOPS"
Endurance "Up to 4,000 TBW (Terabytes Written) / 1.84 DWPD"
MTBF "3,000,000 hours"
Network
igc i226-V nics ship with v2.25 firmware
Power and iperf tests
All power measured at wall outlet of 110v using PN2000 power meter.
reboot - 57.64s
idle - wan igc1, lan igc0 (first boot) - 8.78w
iperf upload - 18.75w - 2.35 Gbit/s
iperf download - 18.60w - 2.35 Gbit/s
idle - zenarmor, wan igc0, lan ax0 - 9.92w
iperf upload - 21.53w - 2.35 Gbit/s
iperf download - 22.04w - 2.35 Gbit/s
Zenarmor with SQLite database with default policy with more than 50% policy blocks turned on. adds about 1w to idle. ~5w to routing 2.5g.
Photos
(https://i.imgur.com/nweJfHN.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/fR7RawO.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/15cPDBf.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/fLjR1xB.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/FckQDc6.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yazC84q.jpeg)
This chassis design really is beautiful.
Quote from: dirtyfreebooter on April 03, 2026, 10:25:45 PMUS customs held it for 7+ days, after two docusign attempts with Fedex international customer service, they finally released it.
Maybe they were trying to figure out if it's a prohibited item under the new policy :P
https://protectli.com/news/statement-fcc-covered-list-update-to-ban-foreign-routers-in-the-us/
Quote from: dirtyfreebooter on April 03, 2026, 10:25:45 PMNot sure how much more lab testing I will do before it replaces my Protectli VP2440. I only have 1 Gbps fiber, upgrading to 2 Gbps, so kept the testing simple to WAN on 2.5g interface and LAN on 10g. I didn't have a chance to setup and test wireguard, but since the VP2440 with N150 can handle ~2Gbps wireguard, this should have no problem with my use case.
I'm just curious: if the VP2440 already does 2Gbps on WAN, where did it fall short? Is it just ZenArmor, or did you see bottlenecks in VLAN routing as well?
Quote from: dirtyfreebooter on April 03, 2026, 10:25:45 PMPleasantly surprised this thing idles less than the Protectli VP2440 (which is 12w with Coreboot 0.9.1-rc3 with ASPM enabled).
I wish coreboot had an option to disable the iGPU as that could be contributing a little to the power draw.
the vp2440 i think is pretty great. x710 is rock solid. the fanless design of the vp2440 is also well engineered.
i always wanted to support this project more. i do pay for business license for example. i always wanted to get some opnsense hardware but frankly the previous gen cpus were kinda lame. especially with zenarmor.
i just really appreciate this project and want it to stay around and prosper.