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Refreshing my Hardware for Home UTM

Hi All

Been a very happy home user of UTM for a while now (2 years i think)

I've been running Dual Wan ADSL2 (2x 10 megabit lines) with a single LAN.  About 20 devices connected.  Just your usual home stuff like PCs, phones, tablets, HTPCs, NAS's etc.

Its running UTM on a DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 small factor HP PC.  2 gig of ram.  Onboard Lan and 2x realtek NICs.  With an old 80gb hard drive.

Want to do some refreshing of hardware:

the two areas I am thinking I should look at is:
1) replace the Lan's NIC with a quality Intel 1Gigabit/s card?
2) upgrade the hard drive to a new 7,200RPM model?  (I see cheap consumer SSD's are not recommended ?)

Would these couple of changes improve the performance?

Anything else I should look at?

Is it ok to leave the ADSL links on Realtek NIC's - I wouldnt have imagined a performance gain switching to Intels?

The CPU seems to handle the job well, it doesnt max out.   Ram seems to always be ok too.

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0 noddy184 over 10 years ago

ive upgrade to the newer board and cpu and added 8gb of ram, and a broadcom chip network interface card for the lan, and the performance increase is huge
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0 CharlesErrington over 10 years ago

Hi noddy184

Could you please clarify exactly what the new setup is - might be very helpful to me and others.

Thanks
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0 JJ_D over 10 years ago

I tend to agree with William, and that would have been my suggestion, incresase the RAM to 8GB
and go wih some quality NICS. The drive and processor should still be well suited fo your system; a
new drive would be nice, but unless the present one has had problems or has a lot of 'miles' on it, I'd
stick with it.
'Sounds like you have a pretty nice system.
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Refreshing my Hardware for Home UTM

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