Sophos UTM Build

[Dean]

Looking for some suggestions to replace my current matx setup. Smaller form factor, power saver.

Currently running AMD 8 core, 8gigs and 1TB HDD.

Suggestions be appreciated.

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[Peanuthead]

You’re running all of that for sophos?

 

[Dean]

You’re running all of that for sophos?

Yea.. it was doing nothing..

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[Peanuthead]

When you run it do you want everything turned on? How many users?

 

[Dean]

When you run it do you want everything turned on? How many users?

6 users... All devices in the home, TV's, Xbox, desktops, laptops, cell phones. Yea, have most everything running.

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[Peanuthead]

I would recommend a high clock speed, low core Mitx setup. Since ram is limited to 6gb with xg or 8gb with v9 utm I would just get 8gb and call it good. The disco speed really doesn’t matter. You could go with the solid-state drive to save on power a little, however you could save a few dollars and use the small laptop drive to achieve the same thing

 

[Rand__]

You won't even need to high clock speed, most of the time mine is fairly idle.
There was another similar thread recently btw

 

[Peanuthead]

I disagree slightly since snort is single threaded. If he has antivirus,IDS and IPS turned on then he’s gonna want to speed. Otherwise I agree with you.

 

[Rand__]

I know, and thats the reason I had built on a high freq cpu originally as well but it never went over 40% on my end (less users, 450 mbit)

 

[marcoi]

I run mine as a vm on one of my servers. I never see CPU usage. mostly memory. IDK maybe im not a heavy user?
I have it configured with 4 cores and 4GB Ram.