I'm looking for a Switch recommendation
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How many 10GbE ports do you want?
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@lnguyen 2, however several 2.5GBe would be better.
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Unmanaged or managed
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Non-POE or POE
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How many 2.5GbE ports?
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Do you want 10GbE SFP+ or 10GbE RJ-45 copper ports?
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@lnguyen I'd like to replace my 24 port switch. If possible, at least 6 ports be PoE and 2.5GB. 10 isn't AS important at this time.
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@CreationGuy You can look into the MokerLink stuff but finding a 24 port PoE mGig switch under $500 will be your challenge. They have lower port density PoE mGig switches that maybe could serve as your core switch.
https://www.mokerlink.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=246
They are available to purchase on Amazon.
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Look at ServeTheHome. They have many switch reviews.
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@CreationGuy
Used Ruckus (former Brocade) rack-mounted ICX-serie w/ doubled PSU and doubled FANs from trusted eBay sellers -> would be perfect choice.Worth each penny!
Especially if You take attention about tuning Ruckus as fohdeesha wrote. :)fohdeesha blog on ServeTheHome!
P.S.
For SOHO home using enough the ICX7150-C12P: enough hoarse power, silent, low power consuming, pretty-modern on exterior look :)
Right now ~$80-$160 on eBay -
@Sergei_Shablovsky OP wants 2.5GbE. The switch you are referencing has 1GbE ports
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@CreationGuy Your looking for the unicorn switch, just like me ;) I have cisco sg300-28 that I have been very happy with. But its getting pretty long in the tooth. And has been eol for awhile now..
I too would like something with poe and some 2.5ge if not true multigig ports.. And somewhat fully managed vs just just some "smart" switch with vlan support. And not break the bank.
I have had no luck finding this dream switch as of yet. If you find something - please post it.
For now I am running 5ge between my pc and nas, a recent upgrade from 2.5ge. I was hoping for a bit more of a bump closer to 5, but with limitation of the usb interface on the nas its seeing only about 3.3ge tops - which is a boost from the 2.37gbps was seeing with the 2.5ge dongle. But the nas has no slot for actual nic, and so limited to usb dongle. The 5ge were cheap, and figure hey any boost.. I see about 350MBps tops when copy from ssd to nvme storage on the nas which is nice.. So it wasn't complete waste of time or money doing the bump.
I only have 500mbps internet, and really the only place need over 1ge is between my pc and nas. So this solution works, and just continue to use the poe injectors for my APs.
Problem with doing such upgrades for me is now I am toying with buying new disks that will allow me to switch over to Raid 0 so can see the extra 1 gbps or so of extra bandwidth when moving files to rust drives on the nas ;)
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@johnpoz @CreationGuy If you are both willing to tolerate the noise, a used Cisco 3850X will do the job. You can look on Amazon or eBay
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@lnguyen I am using a Cisco small business cbs350 POE switch. I am going to add one of my older Cisco small business SG-350x-24 switches to test out 10 gig. It has 4 ports of 10 gig. I am not going to bother with 2.5 gig. I plan to jump to 10 gig and skip 2.5 gig. No noise. I feel like the Cisco small business are the best switches out there for home. They almost never fail they just get out dated.
I am still waiting for AT&T to light up my new fiber.
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@lnguyen hahaha 3850... The things are like jets taking off.. I have used them for years for work.. And they suck elec like its free or something.. I don't care if got it free, even if noise wasn't a factor it would cost me more in electric 3 years in than if I bought some crazy expensive unicorn ;)
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@CreationGuy @johnpoz said in I'm looking for a Switch recommendation:
Your looking for the unicorn switch, just like me ;)
Here is your unicorn for $99
Here is the datasheet:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-3850-series-switches/data_sheet_c78-720918.html -
@johnpoz The Cisco enterprise switches are meant for wiring closets where sound is not a problem.
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@johnpoz said in I'm looking for a Switch recommendation:
The things are like jets taking off.. I have used them for years for work.. And they suck elec like its free or something.. I don't care if got it free, even if noise wasn't a factor it would cost me more in electric 3 years in than if I bought some crazy expensive unicorn ;)
This is all true but until mGig ports get a lot cheaper, you aren't going to find this unicorn. Personally I am running a 9300 and it pulls over 150w 24/7 and is in my garage wall mount APC rack.
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@CreationGuy I ended up doing a D-Link DGS-1510-28x switch with 10gbps modules between 3 of my work stations with fiber fed from my edge router. Then a rack mount injector from POETexas to do the devices that need power..
About a 5 year old setup at this point and it has served me fairly well.
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@lnguyen said in I'm looking for a Switch recommendation:
pulls over 150w 24/7
That is like 200$ a year to run your switch.. no thanks... I would live with just gig if that was the case.
My sg300-28 was less than that when I bought it back in 2017.. It uses less than 20W.. Or about $20 a year to run ;)
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@johnpoz To each their own. I don’t care what the power cost is as I do a lot of data transfers and I enjoy having the bandwidth to do so at home.
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@lnguyen yeah more power too yah.. But I really only have need for high speed xfer between my nas and pc.. And I can do that with some dongles.. Or just before I went 2.5ge was just using smb3 multichannel.
I am running 5ge now or as best I can get with the nas limitation of usb.. My network is not the bottleneck now, its the rust drives.. I have been toying with grabbing 2 more drives and redoing them in my nas.. But can wait a bit for that.. I almost pulled the trigger on 2 12TB drives the other day they were 96$ each. I would put in raid 0 and then my network would be the bottleneck again ;)
That would of allowed me to move the data I have on 2 16TB as just single disks to the new raid 0, and then convert them to another Raid 0.. But I am currently only at about 60% usage of storage, so prob wait til that is over 70 before really think about the move.. And then it might just be time for a better nas, which will prob go 10ge then, etc...
Its a never ending cycle of upgrading - hehehe..
