Protectli Vault FW4B - 4 Port, Firewall Micro Appliance/Mini PC - Intel Quad Core, AES-NI, 8GB RAM, 120GB mSATA SSD

Works great for pfsense. This is the third computer I purchased for this purpose. The first one no aes-ni... The second was doa... I was trying to get buy paying less than 300 for a router box, but in the end you gotta pay to play. This works.

Great device to use as a firewall and vpn client.

Easy install and operation with OPNSense. Reasonably fast operation with hardware for the money, too slow in my tests to run squid proxy with filtering if speed/heavy usage required but I don’t really need that. It is very reasonably warm in operation but I added an external usb quiet free standing fan to move low speed air across it and case stays cool to touch. Very satisfied, and recommended. Been running a month now, absolutely no issues.

Seamless OPNSense install from us and quick set up. No driver or hardware issues.

Why did i not find this sooner.....

Liked the size

I had trouble with my first device, and the company resolved the problem.

I use this unit with Untangle home version and it is rock solid. I have yet to see the CPU get over 40% load even with UTM enabled, email scanning, and ad blocking. Untangle setup took about 20 minutes from a bootable USB stick. All the ports were correctly detected during installation. It was super easy to create several vlans and it has no problem keeping up with many streaming devices going at once. The unit is completely silent and small.

I have purchased 3 of these for myself or for friends. They are great boxes that are available in multiple configurations to fit your needs. The only way to go when looking for a pfsense box.

Purchased to use as home router running pfSense. Well packaged, everything needed in the box. Inserted pfSense USB installer into usb slot, booted. The vault automatically recognized the usb installer and booted from it. Had pfSense installed in 5 minutes of powering up.