I've purchased two CWWK Pentium Gold 8505 mini-PCs with 6 2.5G ethernet ports each and I will be building a Proxmox cluster to replace my current N100 based Proxmox host that has 5 2.5G ethernet ports.
I'm upgrading to the 8505 because the 8505 has 20 PCIe lanes while the N100 only has 9. So, for example, my N100 has 5 ethernets, 2 NVMEs (one lane each), and a few USBs but no USB-3 or USB-C because it ran out of lanes. In contrast, the 8505 mini-PC has 6 ethernets, one NVME with PCIe by four, and multiple USB-3 and USB-C ports. 20 PCIe lanes on the 8505 provide way more I/O flexibility than the 9 on the N100.
If anyone's interested, I may put together a mini-review for this CWWK 8505 platform after the rest of my RAM and SSDs arrive this week. Please reply if you're interested.
I'm upgrading to the 8505 because the 8505 has 20 PCIe lanes while the N100 only has 9. So, for example, my N100 has 5 ethernets, 2 NVMEs (one lane each), and a few USBs but no USB-3 or USB-C because it ran out of lanes. In contrast, the 8505 mini-PC has 6 ethernets, one NVME with PCIe by four, and multiple USB-3 and USB-C ports. 20 PCIe lanes on the 8505 provide way more I/O flexibility than the 9 on the N100.
If anyone's interested, I may put together a mini-review for this CWWK 8505 platform after the rest of my RAM and SSDs arrive this week. Please reply if you're interested.
