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What is the enough hardware for home users?

AlexandreGuimarães

Hi,

I had the SG Home version running on a DIY hardware with a Intel C2D E7400 and 4GB of ram, 120Mbps/6Mbps connection, 4 heavy users (a lot of downloads) plus two video games, and some mobiles devices, but if I tried Sophos with everything ON but email and wireless add-ons, and the things become utterly slow.

So now I am thinking about to buy a new hardware for that in a while. I know the XG Home version were allowed to use just 4 cores and 6 GB memory. Assuming I am buying a fast E3 processor and DDR4 ram, it will be able to effortless handle that traffic plus now with the e-mail and wireless add-ons which I would like to have, and a few more users (streaming devices and a NAS server), and 1Gbps (dual-wan) connection?

I do not mind to pay for the software version but I do not have Idea how it cost or how it is charged for home users. Indeed I would like to have the hardware appliance but I would buy it reasonably oversized to not have to upgrade for a while, so again I do not know how it would be charged for home users. Plus I would like to have a couple of SFP+ ports because I want to use iSCSI (from the NAS server) on some computers here.

Anyway, which hardware (DIY and/or appliances) do you think is the minimal to appropriated for that, as reference.

Many thanks!



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    Hi, thank you for your replies,

    An i3 will really be very ok, based on the experience of the hardware I have now. I am thinking about one of those 4 cores Xeon D motherboards, install 2x 4GB but stick with Sophos XG, locked down to 6GB. If there are performance issues I move on.

    Also based on the experience with the hardware I have now, I think XG is considerably faster than the UTM 9. It is capable of handling the load with XG, not very well but still very usable, and with UTM 9 I had installed, sometimes was impossible to ever open a website.

  • 0 in reply to AlexandreGuimarães

    The core I3 you will not notice a difference between UTM and the SG. UTM has more features and as a better product right now then SG. Sophos is still trying to figure out how to make the XG work like UTM so I would highly recommend that you use UTM

  • 0 in reply to William Warren

    I use a Zotac ZBox CI323 nano. It has a low-power Celeron N3150 CPU with 4 cores and up to 2 Ghz.
    6W TDP and passive cooling.

    I have UTM9 running on 4 GB RAM and with all options activated, I get with my 75 Mbit/s link the full bandwidth. CPU is usally around 6%, when scanning files it goes up to 30%. Memory is at 66% all the time.

    Also AES-NI is available in the CPU.

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  • 0 in reply to William Warren

    I use a Zotac ZBox CI323 nano. It has a low-power Celeron N3150 CPU with 4 cores and up to 2 Ghz.
    6W TDP and passive cooling.

    I have UTM9 running on 4 GB RAM and with all options activated, I get with my 75 Mbit/s link the full bandwidth. CPU is usally around 6%, when scanning files it goes up to 30%. Memory is at 66% all the time.

    Also AES-NI is available in the CPU.

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