Best EVER Fanless Mini PCs for Virtualization and Firewalls?

The biggest processor innovation in a decade for these fanless firewalls and virtualization nodes brings a massive performance boost. We take a look at the newest fanless firewall and virtualization hosts from CWWK and Topton and see why this might be the OPNsense, pfSense, and Proxmox VE node of choice for quiet #homelab setups in the future.

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Where to Find The Unit We Purchased
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- CWWK N305: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DEK...
- CWWK Amazon: https://amzn.to/3qhLmKN
- Topton N305: hhttps://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DD9...

If you are trying to save money with the barebones, this is probably what I would outfit the system with:
- Amazon (Affiliate) G.Skill 16GB DDR5: https://amzn.to/45QicSX
- Amazon (Affiliate) WD Blue 500GB SSD: https://amzn.to/42pf7WY
You want something cool with fanless systems, not hot and fast.

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
01:38 External Hardware Overview
05:05 Internal Hardware Overview
10:38 Performance
13:17 Power Consumption
15:52 Key Lessons Learned
18:02 Wrap-up