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Hardware for Sophos Firewall Home Edition

I’m looking for some advice for Hardware for the Sophos Firewall Home Edition.

I’m not sure if I should use a vm or bare-metal installation.

When I was looking for some hardware, I found HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2 with an Intel Pentium Gold G6405. Is this compatible with the Sophos Firewall Home Edition?

If yes would it be better to use the one with the Intel Xeon E-2314?

The Intel Pentium Gold G6405 hat 2 cores / 4 threads @ 4.1GHZ and the Intel Xeon E-2314 had 4 cores @ 2.8GHz base and 4.5GHz turbo.

The reason I’m looking at HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2 is that it is small and has a slot for a PCIe card. The slot for the PCIe card is important becaus I need to be able to add a fiber card so that if I get FTTH or move to a location that has FTTH, I can use the fiber connection.

On that note, what are some supported fiber PCIe cards?



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  • Hyperthreading splits the lanes. So as i understand it the G6405 while doing work is a 2GHZ processor per thread if all threads are active.  

    www.cpubenchmark.net/.../Intel-Xeon-E-2314-vs-Intel-Pentium-Gold-G6405

    echo "           __     __         __         __     __    _______               ";
    echo ".--------.|__|.--|  |.-----.|__|.-----.|  |--.|  |_ |     __|.--.--..-----.";
    echo "|        ||  ||  _  ||     ||  ||  _  ||     ||   _||__     ||  |  ||     |";
    echo "|__|__|__||__||_____||__|__||__||___  ||__|__||____||_______||_____||__|__|";
    echo "                                |_____|                                    ";

    ~~~ I miss Port 17. Remember using telnet to get the Quote of the Day? Maybe I'll set one up for all the port scanners.  ~~~ 

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  • Hyperthreading splits the lanes. So as i understand it the G6405 while doing work is a 2GHZ processor per thread if all threads are active.  

    www.cpubenchmark.net/.../Intel-Xeon-E-2314-vs-Intel-Pentium-Gold-G6405

    echo "           __     __         __         __     __    _______               ";
    echo ".--------.|__|.--|  |.-----.|__|.-----.|  |--.|  |_ |     __|.--.--..-----.";
    echo "|        ||  ||  _  ||     ||  ||  _  ||     ||   _||__     ||  |  ||     |";
    echo "|__|__|__||__||_____||__|__||__||___  ||__|__||____||_______||_____||__|__|";
    echo "                                |_____|                                    ";

    ~~~ I miss Port 17. Remember using telnet to get the Quote of the Day? Maybe I'll set one up for all the port scanners.  ~~~ 

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