I use this exact model + RAM + mSATA drive and its more than powerful enough to sit in front of my SMB gigabit fiber connection while running DPI/OpenVPN/zabbix/etc.
pfsense is awesome and the learning curve is pretty reasonable if you understand basic network theory. I love it.
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I use this exact model + RAM + mSATA drive and its more than powerful enough to sit in front of my SMB gigabit fiber connection while running DPI/OpenVPN/zabbix/etc.
pfsense is awesome and the learning curve is pretty reasonable if you understand basic network theory. I love it.