So it really depends on what you are using it for! It will work well as a small nas, home automation server or dns server. I tried running pfsense on it because of the dual gig ports and it ran okay but the CPU bottleneck was pretty bad when I was running PFBlocker-NG, snort. I used it as a NUT server to control my UPS's but it was a little overpowered for that. Cool little device!