Introducing the Firewalla Gold Max
(Faster than the Gold Plus and slower than the Gold Pro with SFP+)
This is one of the units we have been trying to build, but it keeps being delayed due to insane memory and storage price hikes. It is hard to admit that pricing is not coming down, so we are going to go ahead and build it anyway. The unit in the picture has been running a small portion of our office since early March.
We are hoping for a pre-sale with early access units (very, very limited stock) in September to November, depending on the order volume and how much DDR4 memory we can get. The probability of building this is very high at this time, so we are preparing, without committing to the date :)
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- 5 Gigabit Processing Power
- 1x SFP+ 10Gbit interface
- 2x RJ45 10Gbit interfaces
- 2x RJ45 2.5Gbit interface
- 4 GB RAM
- 32 GB Storage
- Target pricing between Gold Plus and Gold Pro
- Pre-sale discount, depending on memory pricing
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Don’t take this the wrong way, but I kind of like it but then I’m like…meh! I have the gold pro and a switchX already. Honestly I would rather see the switchX turned into a router for my use. I would bring in my ISP fiber straight into a 10gig SFP port, and send fiber out to my garage and another location that I have. Then, I have 8 10gig POE ports at my disposal locally for AP’s or a downstream switch or other devices. Personally I can’t see the value in 2.5G but that’s just me. If not 1gig, then 10gig. Except for my AP’s, nothing else I own does 2.5gig, but I have several devices that does 1gig and 10gig. Anything that I buy now I buy with 10gig capability including my MacBook Pro which can do well over 10gig on its usb-c ports. I just don’t understand why 2.5 keeps popping up. But to each their own I suppose.
I like my gold pro. Notice I said like, not love. It only has 2 10gig ports and one is my isp and the other is my SwitchX. Now what do I do with my AP’s? Well they have to go to my SwitchX and eat up ports because why would I put them on 2.5gig on the gold pro when I can put them on the SwitchX?
Sorry if this comes out negative. It’s really not meant to be. It’s just my experience with a solution that I really like far more than the competitors. I just want more on the hardware side. Greedy IT folks I guess. lol.
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A couple years ago I was interested in the SFP+ port, but have different hardware from my ISP, and now RJ45-only is sufficient SO I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I agree that "max" should be reserved for your flagship product. "Gold SFP" is short, descriptive, and unambiguous.
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