Recommended managed switch L2 or L3

[tfast500]

I recently purchased an R510 and want to add a multi nic card to it. Since my current 16port switch is unman aged I would not be able to set it up for LACP. I am looking for a good switch that I could use for my homelab and freenas setup.

Please help me choose one that would be under 200.00 and at least 16port and poe is not necessary at least for now :P.

Would it be better to look into a 10gb sfp switch and purchase a 10gb sfp card intead? Would this be overkill?

Please share your network setup.

 

[Ericloewe]

Link aggregation only makes sense in a very limited set of scenarios involving many (emphasis on "many") users. 10GbE works in nearly all scenarios.

 

[tfast500]

Hmm. So I should just go with 10GbE setup then. Can I make this work with a 250.00 budget? What hardware would you recommend?

 

[Ericloewe]

That's doubtful, but getting something useful out of link aggregation is also doubtful.

What hardware would you recommend?

Depends on what's on Ebay these days. 250 bucks buys a single new NIC, without cables/DACs/optics, so new is out of the question.

 

[tfast500]

That's doubtful, but getting something useful out of link aggregation is also doubtful.

Depends on what's on Ebay these days. 250 bucks buys a single new NIC, without cables/DACs/optics, so new is out of the question.

Looks like you are right. Pretty expensive to go 10GbE

Definitely not going new and after briefly looking on ebay for some hardware I probably will not be going used either.

Guess ill stick with my single 1gb connections lol

 

[danb35]

I bought a Dell PowerConnect 5524 switch (24 GbE ports + 2 SFP+ 10G ports) for $200 shipped on eBay. Still under warranty with Dell, too. Decent web GUI, but I admit I've done nearly nothing with the managed features of the switch. Best price I'm seeing right now is $270 shipped, though.

 

[tfast500]

I bought a Dell PowerConnect 5524 switch (24 GbE ports + 2 SFP+ 10G ports) for $200 shipped on eBay. Still under warranty with Dell, too. Decent web GUI, but I admit I've done nearly nothing with the managed features of the switch. Best price I'm seeing right now is $270 shipped, though.

I ended up with two of these 5524 for about 300.00 total and stacked them with the HDMI cables one is POE even so now I have 4 sfp+ ports coonected to freenas, proxmox, and my main workstation. Now I'm thinking about connecting my last one to my router but not sure if that's necessary. I do reach across vlans tho.

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[garym]

A lot of people buy fast hardware so that they can do nothing, faster.