Building a Low Power, All-in-One, Silent Server 

I use mine as a router and have it with the eth ports facing forward, so that isn't a problem for me.

I find the barrel connecter isn’t very secure. A little bit of movement and it falls out.

I made a rack with a tv dinner tray and haven't needed to touch it since

@@davidg5898 My 2 year old FW2B has a recessed power button but it faces away since it's just a PfSense router for me.

Try gluing some plastic washers around the power button?

I think protectli sells a rack mount shelf for this device (but not for all of them)

Get Well Soon dude

Thank you for the kind words and thank you for being here, not only on RU-vid but also on Earth. Get well my friend.

All the best in your recovery. Wish you good health.

So it's (plex on linux) working with prox running 6.2 kernel now? I'm considering getting one of these (a topton i5 1235U unit) but the lack of QSV would be the dealbreaker (it would replace what I need but I want the ability to migrate and retain plex hw capability).

What device do you have?

@@kenniltv I have the FW6E - 6 Port Intel® i7

What cage do you have? Been looking into getting one

Same here looking for a cage. What speeds do you get over USB?

@@kenniltv It's usb 3.0. Theoretical 5 GBs. It saturates 1 GbE network easy, even on writes. 1 gb (bits) = 125 MB (bytes).. if your going to cage ssd drives, maybe go with a usb 3.2 cage.

@@bearcountrypublishing5303 thanks for the tip! Currently using a slow Synology 4 bay NAS with 1Gbit LAN. Any tip on USB cage?

@@kenniltv the one i got was from syba. It was the cheapest i could find with usb3, 3 years ago. My zfs is like raid 10. 3 stripes mirrored. 6 disk total. I pass the drives straight to truenas from proxmox. No problems. If I was going use SSDs I would find something smaller and faster, like usb 3.1 or 3.2? I have recently seen single bay ones that were cheap and chainable. Just look around.

Thanks! I have tons of containers! Check out my docs site for a list!

I believe if we cool "core i9" like that , we can definitely cook something.....!!! 😂🤣

I'm showing around 11W idle and 25W with the CPU pegged at 100% using the stress tool in Linux. It comes with a 90W power adapter, which seems like massive overkill, but maybe they did that on purpose to keep it more efficient.

@@TexasAggieRC Thanks for the response! 11W doesn't sound too bad depending on the CPU. :) The 90W sound more like a reserve to cover for some power hungry configurations to me.

I think it's a limitation of the virtualization layer, you can't pass through the igpu or Quicksync to more than one VM.

@@kenniltv I don’t mean both at the same time. I mean getting HDMI for Windows & quick sync for Linux working separately. I’ve got similar unworking outcomes with my i7-8700T. ;(

See my video on GPU passthrough for proxmox! Same idea!

I also wish the resource and storage allocations were detailed, perhaps on the linked web page.

Yes I think so. There is mPCI you can use for slow SSD's (mSATA in a NvME looking connector, but pinout is different. Or use bad WiFi chips that pfsense or opnsense dont support. Regular connector in these devices. (Have only seen 2.4ghz WiFi chips in mPCI connector for example)

On the vp4630 (and I believe vp46xx models in general), there is an E-key m.2 slot (PCIE x1 for wifi) and a B-key m.2 slot (USB for 4G LTE). The E-key wifi slot is as versatile as any other - you can find 2230 E-key to 2280 M+B key modules so you can pop in another SSD, or even PCIe adapters if you want. You're limited to one gen 3 PCIe lane but that's enough to saturate 5GbE. On the other hand, the USB b-key slot is hard to repurpose because its USB wiring is quite rare. You'd probably have to design your own PCB if you want to do something besides LTE.

Valid point 👌

Yes and old Aliexpress ! From 3years ago! Now with Topton you can have N5105 with 40% more power less power consumption thanks to the newer intel 10nm against 14nm... With 2 SSD NVMe, true 2.5gbps and not 2.35gbps, etc etc for 180€ barebone !

​@@gaetanb6296There is even a newer model with the brand new N100 processor. Significantly faster than the N5105, with a TDP of 6W. There is hardly any difference in price.

lol

The one most people cant afford with corporate greed going on bc too many idiots think its inflation but then why do companies report giving their board partners more money? If its inflation that money goes to bills.

@@gaetanb6296i bought one with 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, an N100 and 6x2.5Gbit for 167€

I wonder how people do this. My pi4B 4GB struggles just to run apache guacamole with one session of RDP...

@@DrDingus Eh, theres nothing really fancy behind it other than masking certain services (journald, plymouth, tmpfiles), disabling both wifi and bluetooth and giving equal values to both arm_freq and arm_freq_min (1500, in my case.)

What livestream do you play?

@@GustavoMsTrashCan You are able to disable all of those services without repercussions?

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Should work with ESXi but can't guarantee. This device is only better if you need the 2.5Gb NICs. I would go for the NUC if you only need 1-2 NICs.

@@kenniltv What makes the NUC better? I mean..the NUC guarantees working with ESXi so from that point of view it's better but..has it also better hardware/support/cooling?

@@UniPer85 depends on what you want it for. NUC is more desktop and PC friendly. Protecli is more router server. You have to compare the CPU between the systems and max wattage draw. Other than that they are similar except the 6x i226 NICs.

I think my mini PC is suffering this! Going to have to plug in a usb fan to cook (nope COOL 😅) it. Got it really loaded up hardware wise, very impressed with it, and can power down my main server and disks whilst this lil powerhouse sips power (not over 500w idle!)

Unfortunately I don’t. Small, fan-less, performant, at least 64GB RAM is pretty specific and this is about all there is 😀

Proxmox uses the tools for managing logs built into systemd, and those have automatic log rotation out of the box. Unless you alter default behavior or have some critical issue spamming syslog, you should not runt into supermassive log files. I can speak from experience having proxmox running on a server from a 150 GB drive for more than 4 years now.

Unless you're logging *everything* (which would be pretty ridiculous for a homelab setup) the log files shouldn't get ridiculous in size nor have an obscene amount of write cycles. Proxmox being Linux based means you can also change where log files go -- make it write to the otherwise unused eMMC drive, for example (the 8GB or 16GB on these units is plenty of space for many years of typical logs).

Yes, at least eggs

It would be tricky as its using what amounts to a laptop CPU, so off the shelf parts for desktop, nah we couldn't do it. Convert a laptop, sure, there's a chance.

If you're using all of that then the CPU on a 6 port model will definitely do the trick. The issues I would see is that you probably won't need more than one Ethernet port for a machine like that, so if you can find a similarly spec'd machine with less networking at a lower price point, that would probably be a better use of money!

What would be the use cases for Coral TPU in this Protecli setup?

Its -runtime=nvidia

My bad… your would be -runtime=intel maybe?? Ive only HW passthrough to plex with nvidia so far

Minisforum ports are one 2.5gb and one 1gb, the 2.5 is not recognized by Pfsence

Verify its Intel NICs. Those work in pfsense. Remember this CPU is pretty good and the iGPU on it makes transcoding work great. Guessing Zimaboards use a less competent CPU?

@@TheBeardedLibertarian thank you, didn't know. I'm not sure if I'll end up using it for pfsense though had been thinking about it. I just like that is has 2 ports for the sake of redundancy. I might just buy both the Zimaboard for pfsense and the minisforum HM90 for Proxmox

@@kenniltv Yea the Zimaboards definitely have a worse CPU, they're just great for clustering or just running something like pfsense.

@@JobStoit miniforum doesn't use intel nics which have a better shot of working at 2.5 gbs with pfsence. This is where opnsence really shines over pfsence. They seem to recognize everything.