AliExpress Atom C3558/C3578 SFP+ board

[foureight84]

There's been a lot of posts on the Topton N5105 and N6005 boards and it got me looking around for other interesting networking boards. I came across this thing: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804371902281.html ( $319.00 - 379.00)

I haven't made the purchase yet. I'm actually waiting to see if they would make a variant of this board with the Atom C3758 more oriented toward NAS usage. But the interesting thing is that it seems to have a 12V barrel jack but also a 4-pin 12v connector, maybe can be powered by either one.

 

[foureight84]

There's been a lot of posts on the Topton N5105 and N6005 boards and it got me looking around for other interesting networking boards. I came across this thing: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804371902281.html

I haven't made the purchase yet. I'm actually waiting to see if they would make a variant of this board with the Atom C3758 more oriented toward NAS usage. But the interesting thing is that it seems to have a 12V barrel jack but also what looks like a 4-pin power for the CPU. I have not seen anything like this before. Wondering if anyone is familiar with how to properly power this board. I sent a few questions to the seller, not sure if they know.

The seller replied back that the 6 LAN ports are i225. Intel Ethernet Connection X553 for SFP+ ports. They also mentioned that the full unit is this https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804412661515.html. The last mention is that "at present, this machine is better on Opensense and Debian systems, and other systems are not fully compatible."

Here is the user manual I received from the seller. They said that they are the manufacturer as well. C3558 Product Manual

 

[newabc]

it is missing a display/video chip comparing to supermicro's ones, but it has a COM port for serial output?

 

[foureight84]

it is missing a display/video chip comparing to supermicro's ones, but it has a COM port for serial output?

It looks like it.

 

[newabc]

It looks like it.

This board has no support for Registered ECC RAMs that is supposed the popular designs of the boards for Atom 3000 series. And it is designed for a regular network equipment, no VGA but with serial output.

It let me remembered about the Netgate 6100 of pfSense. They are similar. If this board's BIOS update will last 3 years, it is worth a try as a firewall board.

 

[foureight84]

This board has no support for Registered ECC RAMs that is supposed the popular designs of the boards for Atom 3000 series. And it is designed for a regular network equipment, no VGA but with serial output.

It let me remembered about the Netgate 6100 of pfSense. They are similar. If this board's BIOS update will last 3 years, it is worth a try as a firewall board.

Looks like this is the manufacturer's page for the board Seavo Technology. It only supports up to 32gb. Which would be more than enough for a firewall. Adequate for running a few container services as well. I was more interested in it for the low power CPU.