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  1. J

    Pfsense on Zotec Zbox

    Were you by chance referring to the ZBOX-BI320-U-W2 originally? It's got the 64GB SSD, 2GB RAM, Haswell celeron 2957U, Win8 w/Bing... but only a one NIC. Anyway, I've been struggling not to buy the ZBOX-BI320-U-W2. In recent past it's gone on sale for $150-160 at Amazon and Newegg. I have...
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    Pfsense on Zotec Zbox

    Which Zbox has two Gb LAN ports? I've scanned their product line and don't see this model/config.
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    ZyXEL Introduces Cheaper UTM Gateway

    Like I said, you would know better than I would. I have no finger on this pulse. I was looking at it from the perspective: mainstream gear = bread & butter low margin, high volume; enthusiast gear = low volume, high margin. It's probably in any OEM's interest to have a horse in both races...
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    ZyXEL Introduces Cheaper UTM Gateway

    Tim you surely have oceans more data than I... Although the $200-300 router market is apparently large enough to keep manufacturers producing them, what % of deployments are they? I'm thinking of all my friends/family/neighbors who use whatever router/gateway their ISP provides them. People...
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    ZyXEL Introduces Cheaper UTM Gateway

    For the home market, I agree. The first consumer OEM to package a hardware appliance with no-cost updates and make it relatively plug-and-play will disrupt the market. It will require a vendor willing to subsidize their own licensing costs via hardware sales & upgrades. OEMs with their own...
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    ZyXEL Introduces Cheaper UTM Gateway

    Fortinet sponsored a book Unified Threat Management For Dummies that's a good overview. Their site asks you to complete a form to access it. But Google finds the direct link to the PDF. And I found this blog post illuminating: https://blog.anitian.com/utm-v-ngfw-a-single-shade-of-gray/...
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    ZyXEL Introduces Cheaper UTM Gateway

    Would need to know what services were all engaged when the 50 Mbps was measured... @ thiggins - Did zyxel offer any subscription pricing details? If we assume home users upgrade infrequently, let's say this is a 5-year commitment. That's $199 (hw + 1st year subs) + 4 renewal years of...
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    ZyXEL Introduces Cheaper UTM Gateway

    Now there's the recently announced zyxel USG40HE for home use, MSRP $199. A general question about these UTM/NGFW appliances: when the IP/ID, AV and anti-spam subscriptions expire, are those features disabled? Or do they continue functioning but no longer receive definition updates? Gateway...
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    Insignia NS-BRDVD4 Blu-Ray + Netflix streamer

    I've had the Insignia (Best Buy's house-brand) NS-BRDVD4 for a few weeks. It replaces their NS-BRDVD3. There are some comparison photos of the two models in this AVSForum thread. I bought it primarily for use as a Netflix streaming box in our secondary TV viewing room. Our main home theater...
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    What a Intel Dual Port Server card can do for you...

    Definitely a drool-worthy graphic! Can your drives keep up?
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    New Nas Build

    Biostar A760G-M2+ - 30W barrier broken I can't find the Asrock A330ION for sale anywhere. The ASUS AT3IONT-I DELUXE is around $200 USD. If you're interested in low power consumption in principle, go for it. If you're interested in low power consumption to save money on your electric bill...
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    New Nas Build

    My opinions... 1) why are you looking at ITX boards if you foresee needing 4+ hard drives? Expanding this with an additional PCIe SATA controller means additional drives. A case that can accommodate all those drives will certainly fit a mATX board. There's literally 100's of mATX boards out...
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    DIY NAS high performance vs. Vendor NAS low power consumption

    Sammy - excellent results! 45W is terrific considering your high-performance. I've always been curious how raid-ed drives would react to hdparm spindown commands - for example, would it break the array if only 1 spun down? or if they all spun down at different times? Maybe not in your case...
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    Small 4 bay (ZFS?) NAS advice please

    Another negative for me with Opensolaris was that CPU frequency scaling was not supported on my CPU. I was using the 45W TDP AMD 4050e CPU. CPU scaling is supported on Phenom and Phenom derivatives. See this 2008 sun.com blog post for more detail: AMD PowerNow! for Solaris. With modern...
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    Small 4 bay (ZFS?) NAS advice please

    Nice :D Wow that IEI thing is expensive. £167, yikes. And its rarity probably means support would be a nightmare. I don't know if you have this model in the UK, but in the US the Zotac GF6100-E-E is $50. It's an Am2 board, DDR2, 4 sata ports. I can't determine if it supports ECC ram...
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