N150 Mini PC Firewall (N100 Upgrade), 6 x 2.5GbE i226V LAN Fanless OPNsense Desktop Computer, DDR5 Barebone No RAM No SSD, AES-NI, 2HD + USB-C 3 Display, 2 x M.2 NVMe Slot

My old router finally bit the dust after 8 years and I was in the market for a new one. Originally I purchased another router, but didn't like the fact that while it had 5 ethernet ports, the device only had two interfaces. Four ports shared one interface (the LAN interface). This didn't sit well with me so I returned it.I was told to look at OPNSense as it will run on x86 hardware and has no limitations. But I needed a device to run it on and I needed a device with multiple ethernet ports to do what I wanted to do with my network.In comes the Glovary Firewall Mini PC... I honestly can't remember why I chose this one, but I remember that Amazon served me this as a suggested item. I saw that it had five ethernet ports, the price was right, and OPNSense was supported 100%. So I bought it.First Glance:When I pulled it out of the box, I was greeted with a MiniPC with a big honky metal case that acts as the heatsink for the device. It also came with a VESA mount adapter, a wall-mount bracket, and a cable so you could install a SATA drive inside the unit.I took off the cover to take a peek inside (which btw the cover comes off with ease!) and what I found surprised me. A completely user-upgradable machine. You can replace and add RAM. You can replace the stock 120GB drive, add a second drive, AND add a SATA SSD drive for a total of three drives. For this price point I did not expect it to be this upgradable. Yay!Outside, the machine has four USB 2.0 ports, 1 USB 3 ports (Type B), and 1 USB C port. It also has two HDMI ports, a TF slot (SD Card), and as stated before 5 2.5GBs ethernet ports.First Start Up:At first start up, it booked into a very zippy Windows 11 pre-installed system. I was impressed at how snappy it ran. Gave me hope that this machine wasn't going to be dog slow. Unfortunately, I am not going to use Windows 11, so I ran a SysInfo and printed it out so I had all the hardware (just in case).Note: If you are going to use Windows 11, this pre-installed version is unregistered but Glovary will provide a key upon request.Installation:I inserted the USB key I made with OPNSense on it, booted the MiniPC off the key, installed OPNSense and voila! Within 30 minutes I had a working firewall (again).Once I was happy with my installation, using the provided brackets, I installed the device on my 'lan wall' in my house.The Break Down:Pros:- lots of 2.5gb ethernet ports- Lots of USB ports- Ability to upgrade is A++- Seems like a zippy machine (well in Windows)- Extra stuff with it (mounting bracket, USB cable)- Completely Fanless design (although you can request one for free from Glovary)Con'sHonestly none that come to mind right off, except for two points that are not really con's.1. This firewall will live on my LAN wall, which is in my laundry room. I do not have central air, so this room does not get cooled in the summer. My concern with the fanless design is that it will not cool the system enough when it is super hot out. Its spring here at the moment, and the heatsink case is rather warm now (and we're in the mid 60's F these days). I will probably request a fan from Glovary just to be safe. Rather not have this burn out too fast because of heat.2. This isn't a con really but more a regret. My only regret is not waiting and buying the upgraded model with more disk and ram. Amazon didnt have it on Prime and woulda taken a week or more. It's great I can upgrade the device in the future, which is why this isn't much of a regret, except it would have been nice to set it up once and be done with it and not to basically have to re-setup the device if I replace the NVE drive in it.Bottom Line:Buy it. Don't wait. Just get it. Its an awesome device. I've only had it for a month and I am really impressed so far. But time will tell on the quality and if it lasts. I'd like to think it will. I'm impressed so far.

Solid Intel mini PC. Amazing value. fanless sitting in my office closet, the temperate gets warm, but not hot to affect the performance.I am running OpnSense (FreeBSD) on it... no issues, just works.While all of this is good, the customer service from the company has been awesome... I had reached out to them a couple of times for help, the response was quick and thorough. Amazing!!Aug'2026 updateCustomer service is truly awesome, I had an issue with internal NVME drive reporting health issues, reached out to their rep, who guided me through the whole process, when the replacement drive was lost in the US postal service, they went the extra step to help with a credit to get a replacement drive through Amazon.

Works well. Operating with pfSense, and if you know what you are doing, setup went well and in use.Of course pfSense is a firewall routing environment that is not off the shelf, and requires a bit of work to setup and configure properly. The physical construction was wonderful and well built, and the massive heat sink keeps the unit running cool. I was able to configure with pfSense right off the bat, and had my gizmo in operation with a reasonable timeframe.Very happy with purchase, and will recommend to customers.

I bought this computer to use it as a PFSense firewall. My experience has been terrific. The system came right up. The bios was easy to configure, the product is stable. This little unit is on 24X7 and has not glitched or gone down ever. I highly recommend this product for this type of application. I put it on my wattmeter and it pulls about 8 watts. Couple of caveats: 1. The bios has a watchdog option. Don't turn this on. I did this assuming it was self monitoring. It is not. It requires a WDT kick from the OS and without this it just reboots endlessly. 2. The unit gets quite warm. The exterior is a big heatsink which over an hour or so gets very warm. Maybe around 45C. I had an old computer fan lying around so I re-wired it using a chopped USB cable. 12V fan running on 5V from one of its USB ports. The fan spins at half speed (which is nice and quiet) and I just have it lying on top of the heat sink body of the computer. Cools it way down to around 30C. The fanless concept is great but it really needs some convective solution to be functional. I would have given 5 stars if I didn't need to add the fan. Overall, I like it and recommend the product.

I purchased this to use as my internet gateway/router/firewall using OPNsense. It was the barebones model and I installed my own choices for NVME storage and RAM. These are solid units! The case is metal (not plastic) and engineered for heat dissipation.It has been running for a month now with no issues. Most of these mini-PCs can generate some heat, so I also installed an 80mm slim fan (10.8mm/0.43" height) connected to the available fan header before using it. CPU temps have stayed well within safe operating range. It is generally between 55C and 60C.Overall, I am very happy with the purchase.

I bought this firewall seven months ago and it has been fantastic -- fast, with zero downtime. This was my second attempt at building my own firewall; my first was a name-brand unit that left me disappointed. I chose the Glovary because it had good reviews, an excellent price, and room to grow: upgradeable memory, two NVMe slots, and a SATA connector.It booted straight into a pre-configured pfSense setup running on FreeBSD 15.0. I'd assumed it would ship with OPNsense, but the difference between the two branches wasn't significant for my needs, and pfSense has served me well. Over seven months it's been consistently fast and stable. It sits on a bookshelf (see photo) with no size or heat concerns — it holds a steady 27.9°C.I'm not a network engineer, and this was the first time I'd ever configured anything more complex than a consumer router. ChatGPT walked me through the interfaces, aliases, NAT, and firewall rules. Through many rounds of changes as I learned, the device never once crashed, and performance stayed excellent throughout.What drove me to build this in the first place: my home network had started spiking over 100 GB a day while we were doing almost nothing. Using the ntopng package, I was able to pinpoint the device responsible and shutdown the misbehaving processes. The visibility you get at the device level is fantastic. I can't imagine ever going back to a consumer router — it would be like going blind after finally being able to see.

I have this PC working as my main router running OPNsense 25.1.4. I have the other ports bridged. Don't waste your money on an all in one box with under powered processors and mediocre performance. This little PC runs circles around those all in one boxes. I have no complaints whatsoever.

This has been a bit of a journey, but if your serious about buying one of these, then read this entire write up.First this is a really nice little device for running OPNsense and highly recommend for that purpose. I deducted a star purely because I've never seen a device so sensitive on memory selection. When you first place new memory in, it will have a LONG 1st boot cycle. It is somehow becoming one with whatever you gave it and thus it is very important you just be patient for 2-5 minutes. Also note that just giving it power will likely initiate that 1st boot, don't play with the power button...Given the description, I purchased a good deal 12GB 5600MHZ Crucial memory and that kind of worked... It passed all forms of stress-ng, SMART, and memtest86 tests with flying colors and the heat was perfectly acceptable. HOWEVER, it was freezing (hard reboot required for recovery) after about 1-3 hours of normal operation. I eventually used iperf3 to stress the network ports and it froze the device in less than 2 minutes pretty consistently. After discussing with the seller (Glovary), I explained all of this and was HIGHLY suspect about their reply that my memory was the probable root cause, but they were correct... They sent me a link to the Crucial CT16G48C40S5 (16GB 4800MHZ), I bought one and it has been working flawless ever since... With that said, the description led me to believe the 12GB 5600 SHOULD have worked. So, this is one of the very few devices that I might actually recommend you buy it with the memory from the manufacturer. If you do not, then you should absolutely buy the 8, 16 or 32 GB version of the 4800 Crucial memory. For OPNsense, you can absolutely get away with 8, but if you want to do something more like proxmox, then try the 32, but I have not directly tested that stick or proxmox. I am just throwing those out there because Glovary seemed to imply they had directly tested/verified those 3 sticks.Other Notes:The specified shipping estimate was pretty close. I think it may have been a day longer than the maximum, but the important thing is that it will not be put on a boat, and it will not be held up at customs for 3 weeks. Whatever shipping carrier from China is being used is quite reasonable and streamlined when it hits the states.I was kind of hoping the bios would have an option to RAID-1 the two NVME slots, but it does not and thus am only running one NVME.It doesn't ship with documentation, but they will give you a link to access online PDF documentation after you make a purchase and it is not bad. My only complaint is that it is just a file/folder link so it isn't super clear which one you need.

I am using this primarily for my firewall set-up which is running as a VM inside proxmox.

Helemaal tevreden, goede bouw, erg degelijk.Werkt uitstekend en er wordt zelfs support aangeboden ondanks dat het niet nodig was.Aanrader.

I purchased the bare-bones N100 version with 6 NICs and received it less than two weeks later, added 32GB Crucial RAM and 512 GB Samsung 970 Pro NVMe. The customer support via Amazon messaging was prompt and so far has been very attentive, sending me a message containing support info and docs just hours after placing my order. It's a solidly-built piece of kit, feels like good quality and after installing the RAM and NVMe disk, it booted up just fine (takes 10 secs to recognise the hardware) and I installed Proxmox VE, creating VMs for OPNSense, PfSense and LXCs for Adguard Home and Tailscale.It's all working fine so far, with either just PfSense or OPNSense running with just a few clients connected in my homelab and sitting behind my current Asus router for WAN. Reported CPU temps have reached close to 50°C in the recent very hot UK weather (35°C outside), but today with ambient temp of 25°C, CPU temp is 39°C so it would seem the CPU runs about 15°C hotter than ambient. Glovary supplied a PWM cooling fan on request, which screws inside the baseplate underneath of the case and operates as an exhaust fan pulling down warm air from the downward-facing motherboard/RAM/NVMe, though I'm not sure how effective it is, operating against rising warm air. The CPU is mounted on the other side of the mobo and can't be seen as it's directly connected to the case, the top of which is a large heatsink. I didn't see any vents inside the case to allow warm air to naturally escape upwards, so it's pointless using the fan as an intake fan so it's staying as an exhaust fan.The PWM fan is configurable via the BIOS but the settings parameters are very basic, namely the temp at which the fan stops, the temp at which it's at full speed and the temp at which the fan starts. The fan is a Chinese-branded 80mm PWM fan that's 10mm thick and it seems pretty quiet with the BIOS reporting it running at around 1400rpm with the CPU temp reported as 38°C. I did find that the motherboard/BIOS doesn't support PWM (nor any) sensors for the fan, so using the sensors utility in Proxmox/Linux shell only reports CPU temps along with ACPI interface and NVMe temps, with nothing for the fan. I guess this is one corner that's been cut to keep price down; I wonder if the more expensive similar devices (such as Protectli) do support fan control via the OS?10mm thick PWM fans are pretty thin on the ground, I've found an Akasa 10.8mm thick fan which is probably thin enough but it gets mixed reviews for noise. There are 15mm fans available (even Noctua) but Glovary support point out that they might cause issues with insufficient clearance.I've found that the biggest difference to cooling is achieved by placing a vertically-oriented 120mm fan in front of the unit, so that it blows air laterally over the heat sink fins and underneath the case via the 3mm gap afforded by the case feet. An external 5V USB 120mm fan placed directly on top of the unit/heatsink was the suggestion of Glovary customer support to provide more cooling, but I'm not sure such placement would work very well. I purchased a NewHail 2Pack Quiet 120mm USB Fan Dual-Ball Bearings, USB Fan 5V, with L/M/H 3-Degree Speed Switch from Amazon which was on offer at the time, it has silicone feet which I'd guess helps reduce noise and provides stable placement for the fan itself. Placed vertically about 2 inches from the Glovary with fan speed on lowest, I see a reduction in CPU temps of about 10°C and a reduction of 8°C for the NVMe, no difference to the ACPI temps; the noisier medium and high speeds didn't make any discernable difference and the low speed setting is pretty quiet, certainly not enough to draw attention.The router isn't "live" yet, I'm currently still deciding between PfSense and OPNSense, though the latter looks more appealing. The availability of up to 2GB/sec fibre broadband on my street has prompted me to invest in and use this device in the near future, the two Asus routers I currently have as an AIMesh 2 network will be relegated to providing WiFi across the house using AIMesh on a wired backhaul.Overall, the Glovary is an excellent specced machine for the money, it has all the ports you need, covering USB-c, USB-3 and 4xUSB-2 ports for things like mouse, keyboard and bluetooth dongles, plus the 2 HDMI ports means multi-monitor support. Compared with the competition, the Glovary is excellent value for money, other 6 port Intel NIC devices from other vendors on Amazon cost twice as much for a lower-spec CPU and only DDR4 RAM support. Highly recommended by me.

Good build quality and quite powerful CPU. Works great together with Opnsense. Although it gets quite warm during load due to the fanless heatspreader. Nothing major, just warm to the touch.

Am Anfang war ich etwas skeptisch. Mittlerweile bin ich jedoch vollständig überzeugt von dem Mini PC. Läuft stabil und zuverlässig als OPNsense Firewall.