Fitlet2 J3455 alternative?

[kkoh]

So... did you pull the trigger? I'm looking to do something similar and wonder what model you ended up buying and how you're liking your decision.

[quickraven]

Hi,
Long time lurker, first time poster. I have always been on the other side of the f(s)ense if you catch my drift ;) and been using a j1900 device with 2 ports, which was good for my needs, but I just wanted to upgrade my homelab and try and use OPNsense. I bought the 4 port device from ebay. Now this one has an option to put in an extra 2.5 inch hdd which I would either use for a proxy cache or try and fiddle around to install some custom software packages. Let's see. But here is the link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/223290932744

Its same as the ones you get from china, but this seller supplies it from the us. So its safer I guess?

[Antaris]

I also observe these small PCs but for such moneay always will take second hand brand PC with haswell i5 + i340-T4 also second hand, and there is no comparison in performance and options...
Just players on the market are too few, and i will give them a time to evolve before buy something from them.
On other side HP, Dell, Lenovo are always stable for such use. I never had strange behavior or failure with them.
As i read this forum and pfSense that can't be said for Qotom.

[seized]

Whats wrong with the fitlet2 itself? Its onboard NICs are Intel i211s and its FACET add in card its two more i211s. So a total of four Intel NICs.

[Antaris]

Whats wrong with the fitlet2 itself? Its onboard NICs are Intel i211s and its FACET add in card its two more i211s. So a total of four Intel NICs.

The price.