Looks nice. I like the fact that WAN/LAN ports are labelled and especially like
the COM port!
Will be a little pricey though compared with the Qotom but may be worth it.
Regards
Michael Knill
On 2/7/20, 5:14 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
A newly released hardware description and configuration has been added to
the AstLinux documentation:
Protectli FW4B Quad Core Fanless Celeron J3160
https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:board_protectli_fw4b
I personally purchased a Protectli FW4B (No RAM, No SSD, coreboot BIOS)
direct from Protectli, here in the US:
FW4B – 4 Port Intel J3160
https://protectli.com/product/fw4b/
$219.00 USD -- Protectli FW4B (coreboot BIOS) Celeron J3160
$ 7.00 USD -- Shipping (2-days from California)
I have plenty of mSATA SSDs and SO-DIMM (DDR3L-1600, 1.35v) laying around
to make it a system.
If you don't live in the US, Protectli ships worldwide, for a price.
The Protectli FW4B offers:
-- Small fanless case, 4.5 x 4.3 inch (115 x 108 mm) footprint (NUC-size)
-- Intel Celeron CPU J3160 @ 1.60GHz (burst to 2.24 GHz enabled)
-- Open source coreboot BIOS (recommended)
-- 4x Intel i210 NICs
-- Supports mSATA SSD
-- Supports Serial (RJ45) or Video (HDMI) Console
-- Piezo speaker
-- Power button
No surprise, line-speed 1Gbps network routing.
Additionally, near line-speed WireGuard VPN endpoint with ~40% CPU headroom
remaining.
This Protectli FW4B appliance makes a fine AstLinux box.
The Good:
* Great performance in a small footprint. slightly faster than the Qotom
Q190G4N.
* Protectli in-house QA, "Every device goes through rigorous testing before
it leaves our facilities"
* Open source coreboot BIOS
* Protectli tech support was very responsive, spoke with Brent (Founder &
CEO) and Luke.
The Bad:
* The only minor nit I discovered was at boot where a stray "l<CR><NL>"
character sequence coreboot (sometimes) spits out over a serial connection,
messing-up the boot.msg text. I informed Protectli about it.
The Protectli FW4B appliance has run solidly for several days, further
updates as needed.
Lonnie
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