On 12/13/2025 1:06 PM PST [email protected] wrote:
> Have I just been unlucky with the PN42, and I should give it a second chance?
> Any other recommendation?
Protectli appliances are engineered for OPNsense, so they run FreeBSD and are
highly likely to support OpenBSD as well. A 2 TB storage requirement is easily
met, and the larger models can hold two drives in RAID 1 for added redundancy.
I have used Protectli units for both clients and personal projects with OpenBSD
and FreeBSD for many years; this message is sent from an older Protectli FW6D
(see the attached file). Further information is available at
https://protectli.com/.
I welcome recommendations for alternative hardware.
Good luck.
- deimos
2025-12-14T01:06:39
_ Host: FW6D (1.0)
(_) OS: OpenBSD 7.8 amd64
| . Kernel: OpenBSD 7.8
. |L /| . _ CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U (4)
@ 3.40 GHz
_ . |\ _| \--+._/| . (_) GPU: Mesa llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256
bits)
/ ||\| Y J ) / |/| ./ Uptime: 10 days, 17 hours, 8 mins
J |)'( | ` F`.'/ _ Packages: 133 (pkg)
-<| F __ .-< (_) Memory: 1.01 GiB / 30.90 GiB (3%)
| / .-'. `. /-. L___ Disk (/): 155.03 MiB / 985.76 MiB
(16%) - ffs
J \ < \ | | O\|.-' _ Disk (/home): 4.55 GiB / 286.66 GiB
(2%) - ffs
_J \ .- \/ O | | \ |F (_) Disk (/tmp): 14.00 KiB / 3.87 GiB
(0%) - ffs
'-F -<_. \ .-' `-' L__ Disk (/usr): 2.62 GiB / 29.06 GiB
(9%) - ffs
__J _ _. >-' )._. |-' Disk (/usr/X11R6): 433.56 MiB /
985.76 MiB (44%) - ffs
`-|.' /_. \_| F Disk (/usr/local): 3.09 GiB / 19.37
GiB (16%) - ffs
/.- . _.< Disk (/usr/obj): 2.00 KiB / 5.81 GiB
(0%) - ffs
/' /.' .' `\ Disk (/usr/src): 1.66 GiB / 4.84 GiB
(34%) - ffs
/L /' |/ _.-'-\ Disk (/var): 137.46 MiB / 54.96 GiB
(0%) - ffs
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