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Sophos XG Home use - mini PC recommendation

Jose Alvarez over 6 years ago

All,

Looking for recommendation on a low cost mini PC, fanless is possible, to run Sophos XG with 400mbps throughput.

I have contacted Zotac but their mini C series have 1 Intel and 1 Realtek NICs.

Thanks for your help.

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0 Rogue over 6 years ago in reply to Fpic

Of course, totally compatible! Works great!
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0 Usbkey over 6 years ago in reply to Fpic

My Sophos XG hardware is HP T620 Plus AMD GX420CA CPU also supports AES instructions
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0 Fpic over 6 years ago in reply to Usbkey

Usbkey said:
My Sophos XG hardware is HP T620 Plus AMD GX420CA CPU also supports AES instructions

How did you manage for the second nic required by xg?
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0 Usbkey over 6 years ago in reply to Fpic

T620 Plus have a PCIE slot so I installed a Intel 4 Port NIC, it also has MSTAT connector and 2 SODIMM slots.

My T620 Plus has 8G RAM, 256G MSTAT drive, Intel 4 port NIC and power consumption is 14w

Average monthly CPU usage about 5% and memory usage is about 37%, my connection is HFC 100/40
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0 Gary Parr over 6 years ago

I use this little guy and love it. -> https://protectli.com/product/fw4a/

Can get it a few places including Amazon. Good build quality.
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0 daren dixon over 6 years ago in reply to kiriak

I will recommend pondesk they even will replace stuff that is long past warranty and I have also seen some new server that is quite good.

I am also able to call them up and speak with people that provide good customer service when i need help.

I am still a novice but i know quality when i see it another one is qotom but i never like customer service
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0 Eliot Mansfield over 4 years ago in reply to kiriak

Hi - I've bought a similar device from ebay:

https://www.pondesk.com/product/Intel-Atom-E3845-4-LAN-3G4G-HD-Fanless-Firewall-Router_MNHO-048

I’m using this image: SW-17.5.10_MR-10-620.iso made into a bootable USB stick for the install.

The installation goes fine, I can get onto the box and do the initial setup wizard (but I don’t licence it – I never do that until I’m happy it’s good).

The problem, is once I reboot the machine it then performs “automated file system integrity check” and then drops into failsafe mode. If I then go to the system console and do “show failure reason” it gives “unable to start config database”

I’ve re-imaged it several times and always does the same thing after the reboot.

In the BIOS settings it asks for OS type, i've tried linux and windows.

Anyone got any pointers?
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0 Mike Scott over 4 years ago in reply to kiriak

kiriak said:

I got this Atom mini PC from Pondesk in UK, a few days ago

https://www.pondesk.com/product/Intel-Atom-E3845-4-LAN-3G4G-HD-Fanless-Firewall-Router_MNHO-048

4 intel nics (i211)

VGA port ( good to have for installation and troubleshooting if no web access)

wifi (+/- 3g or 4 g module) in case of change of use

in less than 24 hours in my home from delivery (London to Athens -Greece)

I tested it's consumption, it is around 6.5 - 7 Watts in my setup (home)

I have no idea about performance at 400mbps

I too have purchased one of these units and few good. Currently fitted with 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD. I've put Untangle on it for now following a dire experience with Unifi's offerings.

Sophos XG Home is of particular interest though.
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0 Eliot Mansfield over 4 years ago in reply to Mike Scott

I've now got it installed (but yet to configure it) - I used a new image SW-17.5.11_MR-11-661.iso and didn't get the same problem.

The ebay seller "ukdigitalelectronics" I used was very helpful, to the extent that he installed a copy onto box at his end to prove it wasn't a hardware problem - so recommended seller on that front.
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0 l0rdraiden over 4 years ago

Build a custom one with used parts, it will be way cheaper and better.

4 cores 8 threads at least but no more than 8 cores in total. Less would be enough but maybe you want to size it in case in a few years you have a gigabit connection.

6 GB RAM (8)

120GB SSD

a dual or quad intel i350 network card. Look at ebay or aliexpress

If you want 0 noise get a good/ big heatsing with 14cm fan. There are a few options for 50$ (new)
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