ODROID Rolling Out New Intel-Powered Single Board Computer After Trying With Ryzen

[speculatrix]

I'd like to know how good the NICs are, whether this would make a good firewall "appliance" running opnsense or pfsense or simply linux with iptables.. can you get really high packet rates with small packets for example with stateful inspection and a non-trivial rule set?

[andreano]

Amazing how just changing CPU ISA gives you

* non-soldered RAM
* SATA/M.2 storage options
* tons of ports
* supported GPU

that are sorely lacking on any ARM SBC.

[coder]

And it is not about the brand, it is about the performance and what you can do with it. Intel lists the J4105 at 107$, which considering what you are getting for it, is not a good deal by any metric. If the SOC is 107$, the add at least an additional 50$ for the PCB, extra parts and some basic profit margin to justify making the product in the first place, and you are already at 160$.

Those prices are a fiction. You can get a mini-ITX motherboard with a J4105 for $72.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157805

[coder]

Amazing how just changing CPU ISA gives you

I came to the same conclusion as ODROID, when looking to upgrade my Raspberry Pi media server, a couple years ago. I went with a mini-ITX Apollo Lake board. I wish it had been STX, but none were available. But it's fanless and let me use a SATA 3 SSD at full speed.