Hey Guys
I am new to the Sophos world, and new to HW Firewall appliances (until now, I used "just a router").
I am getting a new Fiber WAN Connection with 1Gbps up / 1Gbps down and would like to place a Sophos UTM Router/Firewall at the end of that.
Note: I want to run Sophos UTM as a VM in VMWare Workstation on a Linux Host.
First I looked at buying a Supermicro Barebone and equipping it with a 400$ E5-2630 with 2.4 GHz and 6 Cores.
But then I realized, that I also could build my own Server which would better serve my needs.
I would get (for the same price) a machine with twice the RAM and a Hexacore i7 with 3.3GHz up to 3.7GHz.
Of course, this would be with a "Consumer" i7 and not an Intel Xeon and with normal RAM, not ECC RAM.
What do you guys think? Is it critical to have ECC RAM and a Server Grade CPU or can I go for the i7?
The whole installation is for a home user group with 4 users and normal internet use, no super-heavy usage (like streaming multiple HD vids arround the clock or so).
Regards
Thor_
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