Hardware recommendation for Sophos XG Home Edition?

Question

I'm interested in setting up Sophos XG for my home. I have Verizon FiOS coax with 50/50 WAN. We have a couple desktops, 3 laptops, 4 tablets, several phones plus a couple streaming televisions on the network. I don't have any old hardware lying around, so I'm looking to acquire something appropriate. Hardware specs seem to be: 
 Intel i3 or faster Dual or quad-core 2-6GB RAM 2 NIC cards 
 However, from online reviews, there are many potential conflicts. Therefore, I'm quite tempted to simply pickup a Sophos XG 85w. Surprisingly, the hardware specs are difficult to find on this unit. Is the hardware on this system available? From other discussions, it seems this hardware is sufficient to run XG Home. Is it a 'good' option? Also, it comes pre-installed with XG for business; so, it seems I'll need to reformat it for XG Home Edition? Are there better alternatives? 
 Thank you!

lferrara · Answer

Erick, 
 you can have a look at this Sizing Guide: 
 http://www.infinigate.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Products/Sophos/Products/Network_Protection/sophos_xg_series_sizing_guide_sgna.pdf 
 Pay attention with the Feature sets you will use and the bandwidth also. XG85 does not have an onboard HDD so you will not have reporting. 
 In my opinion, at home, you can build your own box with 4 Core and 6 GB of RAM. 
 Regards,

MachineDrummer · Answer

I have https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MEGSMRZ/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 
 And it works great, well build barebone. However I did switch recently from 200/35 Optimum to FIOS Gigabit and was not able to push more than 185Mbps with IPS enabled. 
 It will get full 850/850 fine but without IPS enabled .... I can see that snort is using all 4 cores, and when I run speedtest all 4 snort processes are spiking CPU. 
 If you have ISP with faster connection than 200Mbps I would personally cannot recommend Celeron j1900. 
 
 Looking right now at possibly buying: 
 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XPGFG2W/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A14HQ326MGQ4AS 
 Which hopefully would let me run IPS at higher speed http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-5250U-vs-Intel-Celeron-J1900 
 Pros toward 5250u

Much better geekbench 3 AES single core score 
 3,470,000 MB/s 
 vs 
 56,900 MB/s 
 Around 61x better geekbench 3 AES single core score

Much newer manufacturing process 
 14 nm 
 vs 
 22 nm 
 A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor

Much better performance per watt 
 61.41 pt/W 
 vs 
 4.32 pt/W 
 Around 14.2x better performance per watt

Higher turbo clock speed 
 2.7 GHz 
 vs 
 2.42 GHz 
 More than 10% higher turbo clock speed

Much better performance per dollar 
 2.92 pt/$ 
 vs 
 0.53 pt/$ 
 More than 5.5x better performance per dollar

Much better CompuBench 1.5 face detection score 
 21.99 mPixels/s 
 vs 
 0.39 mPixels/s 
 Around 56.2x better CompuBench 1.5 face detection score

More number of displays supported 
 3 
 vs 
 2 
 1 more number of displays supported

Better turbo clock speed 
 950 MHz 
 vs 
 854 MHz 
 More than 10% better turbo clock speed

Newer 
 Jan, 2015 
 vs 
 Oct, 2013 
 Release date over 1 years later

Better PassMark score 
 3,607 
 vs 
 1,864 
 Around 95% better PassMark score

waghelak · Answer

Hi, 
 I am running the i7 version of this with no issues. 
 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XPGFG2W/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A14HQ326MGQ4AS