I'm looking for a Switch recommendation
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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..
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I switched to a Ubiquiti Switch Pro Max 24 PoE about 6 months ago. No issues.
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@coxhaus even in a closet, which should be ventilated, sound matters. I did it, and had to modify both the pFsense 1U rackmount PC and the Ubiquiti 10Gb fiber/copper switch to quiet them down so I couldn't hear them as loudly through the vents in the door.
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Long time Cisco fan now I prefer Brocade
Check out this Link:
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/brocade-icx-series-cheap-powerful-10gbe-40gbe-switching.21107/I just migrated to a Brocade ICX-7250
Full Layer 3
8(x) 10GB Ports,
No Licenses to worry about
40W draw with a dozen or so clients
fast & stable
Quiet and you can mod the fans.
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@ngr2001
I have been using Cisco small business layer 3 switches at home for over 15 years, no problems and they are quiet.I would not run a Cisco enterprise switch at home. Yes, they are better with all the drawbacks for home use like loud and big electricity drawers.
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@coxhaus exactly - sure you can pick some older models for good prices on ebay, etc.. But yup loud and love to suck the electron juice ;)
Only way I could see running them is in a true lab, where they are only one while you actually lab something..
I just installed some older 3850's in a branch office - and kind of felt bad, you could hear them out in the office ;) But my boss said that's a facilities issue.. they can sound proof the room or move them to somewhere else in the office, but this is where they told us to install them.. And that is where all the current drops go too, etc.
