Hardware recommendation

Question

What would be a good processor for the XG Home Edition? I think that I read somewhere that it will use "up to four threads"? Would a core 2 quad (2.4 Ghz) work? Also, do I need an SSD? What would a good size hard drive be? I have FiOS 50/50 with about ten devices of moderately heavy usage. 
 
 Thanks.

IanMorehouse · Accepted Answer

I currently use an 13-3220t (2.8ghz) going to move to a i3-6100 (3.6ghz). For home use 2 cores appears to be plenty, but then again I only have a 5/1 adsl service on a good day. You will need more speed than cores to be able to use your 50/50 with the current release and the next couple of releases until a multi-threading snort or similar is installed. 
The reason I am moving to a faster CPU is I find the current version too slow when making configuration changes. 
I think XG only uses real cores, not artificial threads. 
I use an SSD because I had one, don't go overboard about 100-200gb is adequate otherwise your install time will be in hours while the disk is hard formatted.