hardware appliance performance compair to software install on regular server?

The XG210 and a Dell R230 are comparing apples to oranges. The XG210 is made by a company called Caswell. That box is only running a Celeron G1820 which is a 2 core/ 2 thread CPU at 2.7 GHz.

http://ark.intel.com/products/78955/Intel-Celeron-Processor-G1820-2M-Cache-2_70-GHz

http://www.portwell.com/pdf/ca/CAR-3040.pdf

The R230 processor you are referencing will be much faster as it is 4 core at 3 GHz. Note you must have a software license that will support 4 cores and 8 GB of ram to take advantage of the hardware.

http://ark.intel.com/products/88172/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1220-v5-8M-Cache-3_00-GHz

FYI the home license only supports 4 core and up 6 GB of ram but with that size box, I can't imagine you would be running on a home licence.

I would suggest you get with a Sophos partner to properly size your environment. A software license to support the Dell server will be significantly more than the XG210.

Thanks,

Mike

I can't see why you would not run the XG on a home licence with that box.

Currently running 8gb with a i3 6100 3.7ghz cpu. Only 2 core.

Looking at going back to the e3 1245 v2 running at 3.1ghz at least I get 4 real cores.

I can't see why you would not run the XG on a home licence with that box.

Currently running 8gb with a i3 6100 3.7ghz cpu. Only 2 core.

Looking at going back to the e3 1245 v2 running at 3.1ghz at least I get 4 real cores.

Not saying you couldn't, but that is an expensive appliance or server in this scenario to serve up a few users in a house. The XG210 can easily support 50 users with everything turned on. Why would you need that at home?   

Hi,

Did you end up installing Sophos XG on a dell R230?  Just wondering if you ran into any boot problems or other unforeseen issues.

No i use R230 here just because i throught XG210 has e3 1220V5 found in R230.

I have a R420 at home and it runs fine. But i don't use onboard NIC and have a intel i350 instead.