SharePoint 2013: Hardware Requirements Overview

Go back to Creating a Dev Environment

First of all, you need to think of the hardware you require. Go for an i7 quad core processor, equivalent or higher. Also make sure you have at least 32 GB memory, since SharePoint 2013 dev machines require at least 24 GB of memory. Having a RAID 0 hard disk is also a good idea.

See Also:

• Overview
• Hardware and software requirements for other SharePoint 2013 capabilities
• Hardware requirements—location of physical servers
• Hardware requirements—web servers, application servers, and single server installations
• Hardware requirements—database servers
• Software requirements
• Optional software
• Links to applicable software
• Prerequisite installer operations and command-line options