#Usb redirector with microtik router install

The highest usage I saw was during boot where it hit a whopping 15 watts. The idle power consumption on this device is amazing: killawatt

And then of course the M.2 SSD and extra RAM that I added.

Above the battery, you can see the PCIe header which would be populated if this was the thick version of the box.

Towards the left, you see the blue USB internal header that could be used for an internal USB drive.

Plus, I got it cheap on Black Friday.ДЄ peek inside and this thing is surprisingly expandable. I tossed a Crucial MX500 in here because eventually this thing might become a tiny VM Host.

To further revise, it looks like it might be picky about 16GB chips.

Currently running 32GB in it without an issue. Apparently 16GB and even possible 32GB will work, which I have sticks for, but I havenвЂ™t had a chance to rearrange things to test. Officially these only support 8GB, but I added another 8GB for a total of 12GB. Though I do know that itвЂ™s generally recommended to skip eMMC storage for anything that might do lots of writes, like a firewall logging a bunch.

#Usb redirector with microtik router install

IвЂ™m pretty sure I could just install straight to this, but for now I wanted to leave it intact in case I wanted to play with ThinOS. It would have been nice to turn this into a console redirection port for a sort of out-of-band access, but I couldnвЂ™t figure it out. The other USB ports are blue, meaning better than USB2.0. I do know there is a USB-C port at 5Gbps. DonвЂ™t ask me about revisions as that USB naming scheme is a mess that I canвЂ™t be bothered to look up. This isnвЂ™t a problem for me because I have a managed switch for router-on-a-stick. And as IвЂ™m running VyOS, Realtek NICs arenвЂ™t a problem at all. But they have USB-C on the front, which means a second gigabit NIC can easily be added. The versions I bought were the thin version, which only have a single Realtek NIC.

I found some for $60 locally, but they can easily be found online for only a little more. There are two versions, the thin and the thick version, with the latter having room for a PCIe card. This is a Intel Pentium Silver DDR4 platform based on the J5005. The HardwareДЄfter a bit of hunting, I found the Dell WYSE 5070.

I wanted something that was similarly low power usage, and I wasnвЂ™t really looking to spend too much, especially since it was my own silliness that killed the last one. By вЂњaccidentвЂќ, I mean I killed the box by messing around on it with a FlashCat. For a while now, IвЂ™ve been looking for a replacement to a Supermicro E200-9B that I had an вЂњaccidentвЂќ with.