I'm pretty sure that I'm going to update my lab firewall, my old HP T620 is having some issues when it boots, requires pressing power button to turn it back off, and press again to boot, then fine. Yes I have a fresh CMOS battery installed, I think it is just old and lived a long life with me and longer before I bought it.
I'm looking at things like n100/n150 powered devices, but more likely an HP T740. The other strong choice is a used Sophos device, but having trouble finding one with a CPU I like, needs to be at least an Atom 3000 series and would really like newer for the money they are charging.
Some of the REV 3 Sophos devices are going for over $200 and I can buy a new old stock T740 for around the same. I have network cards, ram, and SSD for expanding the T740 to do what I need, all the way up to quad x710 if I want to try and do some 10g lan to lan routing, but probably a quad i350 card.
Any tips on what I should be looking for in a Sophos device before I just get another T740 for the job? I want at least 4 ports, a fifth Realtek port is fine because I use it like a management port when things go wrong. I can also add an i226 port to the T740 giving me a total of 6 ports which is far more than I need in my lab. But power draw at idle for the T740 is higher than other choices, and it spends a lot of time at almost idle.
Quote from: Greg_E on May 14, 2026, 03:45:57 PMneeds to be at least an Atom 3000 series
Have you seen this topic : https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=46431.0 ??
IIRC most of the units being sold on eBay were on your side of the world :)
Thanks, I had not seen that post. I should have searched by processor instead of SOPHOS. I'm still thinking about this, most of the ones I'm looking at go up to 75 watts, which isn't much savings over a T740. Not going to jump into this purchase until I make up my mind.