Hardware sanity check please

[loganx1121]

So I decided my recoverypoint gen5 was too much of a power hog to build my firewall on.  My electric bill is already pushing $300 a month for the normal house stuff and all the cisco and other equipment I have running in my home lab.

So I ordered one of these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074XPR3VJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I just want to sanity check that this will do what I want it to.

- I'm sure it will route a gig internally, but I have a gig connection from the ISP so at least a gig down is a must for me
- Want to be able to NAT a gig
- I'm probably going to want to do some IPS/IDS stuff.  Nothing crazy but I'd like to play with it
- IPSEC VPN for 100Mbps or 200Mbps <-- this is just for me and my friends to access my NAS remotely.  Maybe stream a movie or two

As always, any advice is greatly appreciated.  It's going to take a week to get here but hasn't shipped yet, so if I should cancel and buy something bigger I'd like to know now.

Thanks in advance

[loganx1121]

It looks like AliExpress has a better one for just 100 bucks more but never ordered from them

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32888168919.html?algo_pvid=f85956ed-558e-4ca3-bac4-1d085abc19fe&algo_expid=f85956ed-558e-4ca3-bac4-1d085abc19fe-0&btsid=f26b52ac-2b06-48d9-a840-78cbca0d77b2&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_6,searchweb201603_52

[deekdeeker]

I have been using these quotom devices for some production sites for months, they work very well so far. I order them from aliepxress bare bones and add my own memory and SSD as i like to use samsung pro ssd's and generally decent memory like crucial or sammy.

OH btw if you do get these , you will need to open then up and set a jumper so that they power on from power loss by default. i learnt this the hard way. Mine did not ship with the jumper in this position so they did not auto power on. The BIOS is read only , you cannot save any settings within it. Also while setting the jumper i applied better thermal grease and noticed about 4-5 ~C temperature drop which is nice.