mini-itx Good Mini-ITX cases for a pfSense builds

[Amageing]

Hi LTT Forum,

 

I watched Linus's recent video on Mini-ITX cases and it got me thinking, which Mini-ITX case would be best for a pfSense router?

 

Obviously the priorities of this build would be slightly different, for example a more subtle case would be nice as well as no need to have the PCI-E slot separated from the rest of the case as there is no GPU etc.

 

Any case recommendations would be great!

 

Thanks,

Amageing

[Electronics Wizardy]

what hardware?

 

should it be rackmount?

 

Id probably just et something like this insteaed. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-J1900-Fanless-Firewall-Barebone-Mini-Box-PC-with-Multi-Intel-Nic-4-LAN-/112400917514?var=&hash=item1a2b9de40a:m:mukaZQ6eumcnjJ13npudrfg

[Amageing]

12 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what hardware?

 

should it be rackmount?

 

Id probably just et something like this insteaed. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-J1900-Fanless-Firewall-Barebone-Mini-Box-PC-with-Multi-Intel-Nic-4-LAN-/112400917514?var=&hash=item1a2b9de40a:m:mukaZQ6eumcnjJ13npudrfg

The hardware is pretty irrelevant, just a standard Mini-ITX motherboard and a PCI-E network card. And I was thinking more a stand alone case rather than rack mounted. Something which which can sit in a living room etc.

Thanks,

[MercuryRain]

Node 202 maybe?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Amageing said:

The hardware is pretty irrelevant, just a standard Mini-ITX motherboard and a PCI-E network card. And I was thinking more a stand alone case rather than rack mounted. Something which which can sit in a living room etc.

Thanks,

What specs?

 

Do you need a network card?

 

how about this? https://pcpartpicker.com/product/QqtCmG/antec-case-isk110vesa

[Amageing]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What specs?

 

Do you need a network card?

 

how about this? https://pcpartpicker.com/product/QqtCmG/antec-case-isk110vesa

Yeah I've got an idea of what I'm going to build within it. Preferably room for a large hard drive so I can double it up as a NAS. But yeah I'm just going to get an Intel gigabit network card along with 2-4GB of RAM and a 1.5-2GHz processor.

Just need to find a decent case really as I haven't built a small form factor PC before.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Amageing said:

Yeah I've got an idea of what I'm going to build within it. Preferably room for a large hard drive so I can double it up as a NAS. But yeah I'm just going to get an Intel gigabit network card along with 2-4GB of RAM and a 1.5-2GHz processor.

Just need to find a decent case really as I haven't built a small form factor PC before.

don't make your router your nas, make that a seprate box, or install something like esxi or proxmox and use vms

 

Why not get a premade mini pc, much lower power.

[Amageing]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

don't make your router your nas, make that a seprate box, or install something like esxi or proxmox and use vms

 

Why not get a premade mini pc, much lower power.

I was trying to kill two birds with one stone but if it makes more sense to split the devices that that Intel box you linked eairler looks good

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Amageing said:

I was trying to kill two birds with one stone but if it makes more sense to split the devices that that Intel box you linked eairler looks good

budget?

 

how about something like this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811352041

 

Then put a basic b250 board in there with the pentium g4560 and 8gb of ram, install proxmox on a usb drives, use a hdd storage, and run your router in a vm.

[Amageing]

12 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

budget?

 

how about something like this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811352041

 

Then put a basic b250 board in there with the pentium g4560 and 8gb of ram, install proxmox on a usb drives, use a hdd storage, and run your router in a vm.

Looking between £200-£300. And yeah not a bad idea! Although preferably a smaller case.

[redtute]

have a look at the S4 mini.

http://nfc-systems.com/s4-mini/

the smallest it's case on the market.