Friday, March 8, 2019

Small 10G switch for storage

Hello everyone,

We'll moving our office to a fresh new location later this year, which means new "datacenter" (very small one) and opportunity to renew most of the network equipment. Servers will have 1GB access links but we thought of having 10GB ones for the storage since we're dealing with pretty big amount of storage load (datascience). We're looking for a 10GB switch with both copper and SFP+ ports. We currently have two NASes (mirrored) and we aren't planning to expand in the short term (maybe a proper SAN one day) so a max 16 port switch would be fine. The budget is constrained at maximum 2k€, it would be easier to justify the need in front of the management.

We found these switches for now :

  • Cisco SG550XG-8F8T-K9 : 8 RJ45 + 8 SFP+, seems to be a cheap version of the Catalyst series with doubtful reliability (based on other people reviews)
  • HPE Officeconnect 1950 12XGT : 12 RJ45 + 4 SFP+, cut-down 2xxx series OS but looks like a pretty solid switch
  • Ubiquiti US-16-XG : 12 RJ45 + 4 SFP+, cheapest of all but we're satisfied with our Ubnt APs, so we're confident about reliability

I must add that we don't need advanced L3 capabilities.

I know the budget is probably too tight for what we want, that's why I'm asking you your opinion.

Thank you in advance :)



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