HUNSN Micro Firewall Appliance, Mini PC, VPN, Router PC, Intel J6413, RJ14, AES-NI, 6 x Intel 2.5GbE I226-V LAN, Console, HDMI, GPIO, SIM Slot, Barebone, NO RAM, NO Storage, NO System

This Review is for the BARE BONES model, 6 NICS, Intel J6413 CPU, i226VI own several of these Intel x86-based mini PC's. This one has six (6) i226V NICs, and all I can say is, the more NICs, the better. Dual WAN? No problem, you'll still have 4 extra NICs to use as you please...LAGG them all together with a LACP-capable switch and let this thing rip on your home or small business network.Opted for the bare bones model...tossed in a 256GB mSATA SSD and 16GB of RAM. Why not...RAM and mSATA drives are pretty inexpensive these days. All you need to do is remove 4 screws on the bottom plate and it pops right off, giving you access to the internals for installing your storage and RAM. This appliance has 2 DDR4 SO-DIMM slots, so make sure you load it up with 32GB of DDR4, don't cheap out and stop at 16GB like I did. No one wants an empty SO-DIMM slot in their device. Throw Proxmox on there, now you have a bunch of servers in one. Can't go wrong.Only downside...mSATA. Why not just standardize on NVMe? mSATA drives are pretty cheap and readily available, but NVMe is just a much better performer, and NVMe SSD drives continue to rapidly fall in price as they flood the market.I'd recommend OPNsense on this device over pfSense. OPNSense has full driver support for the i226V 2.5Gbe NIC. pfSense might be a little dicey and some extra work, so if you enjoy searching for and installing new drivers, go for it.Docking a star for mSATA and price. These cost $100 less on aliexpress, but I wanted instant gratification and didn't want to grow old waiting for this to arrive on my doorstep. HUNSN seems to be building these with quality parts, so I recommend you stock up on these like a doomsday prepper and decorate your server rack or wall with them before they go further up in price. You won't find a consumer router/firewall on the market that will perform as well as one of these running pfSense and OPNsense. ASUS/Netgear/whatever network junk stocked at Best Buy simply doesn't compare to these in terms of performance and reliability.

Compatible with the RAM and SSD I already had, runs pfsense nicely with no downtime. It can get hot though which is expected since the whole chassis is a heatsink

I got a box via DHL took some time, packaging was good. However upon testing discovered that mini-PCIe did not work, it simply would not detect adapters. I have tried few models on hand both from Atheros and Intel but it simply would not detect them, pciconf -vl would only show 6x intel i226 NICs. I have reached out to seller unfortunately they could not help with issue. Seems to be some kind of quality control issue from factory. Requested refund seller provided label to ship back. Box was shipped back. Now pending refund on my account.