Qnap TVS-873 as router

[ollih85]

I have an old Qnap TVS-873 with a broken backplane. I was planning to convert it to an Opnsense router. It has an AMD R-Series RX-421BD quad-core 2.1 GHz processor, burst up to 3.4 GHz ja 64 Gb of memory. It has two SATA M.2 slots where I was planning to install the OS. The mother board has 4 Nics and live booting Opnsense sees all of them and I can access the web gui.

My question is: would this hardware handle 1 Gbit connection internet? If this is something you can say outright, before I buy the SSDs and plan a case for it  If test it with the live boot environment running from a USB drive will the result be the same as if the OS would be on a SSD?

[meyergru]

Should be sufficient if you do not plan to do anything fancy like IDS or zenarmor. However, the RAM won't help and add to the already high energy cost of that 2015 CPU.

If the system boots from a USB drive at all, it should not matter much that it is slower on storage.

[tiermutter]

For me this model as router is not a good choice due to its size and power consumption. Why not sell this device and spend the money for proper hardware? Even with broken backplane (really all slots?) it may give you about 200€ and more.