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I just went through all of HP and Dell's offerings for this. Be very careful as both HP and Dell offer 10Gbase-T uplinks that are for switch to switch use ONLY . The dell "networking specialist" (I use this term loosely as I knew the hardware better after a few hours of research then he did) claims that only their 8000 series switch supports true 10Gbase-T ports.
I am looking for a Switch with a 10GBE uplink to go with a qnap TS879u with a 10 GBE card.
I need something affordable.
I just went through all of HP and Dell's offerings for this. Be very careful as both HP and Dell offer 10Gbase-T uplinks that are for switch to switch use ONLY . The dell "networking specialist" (I use this term loosely as I knew the hardware better after a few hours of research then he did) claims that only their 8000 series switch supports true 10Gbase-T ports.
HP's lowest level switch with 2 10Gbase-T ports is the 3800-24. It will run you a cool $3500.
Cisco offers the 2960-S with 2 10Gbase-T ports for $1200 (WS-C2960S-24TD-L)
I was dumbfounded when I realized how far behind 10Gbase-T is. We literally have a dozen servers with 10G cards around here and all they do is link card to card. Switches were, and still are, too expensive IMO for 10Gbase-T use even in a medium sized environment like mine.
Where did u see WS-C2960S-24TD-L for $1200? cheapest I can find them is about ~$1800
My bad, it has been a heck of a week. The point still stands- 10G is just not affordable yet.^ that's a WS-C2960S-24TS-L so no 10gig ports
A Dell 6248 with the two port SPF+ card can be had for about a grand. Less if you only need 24gbe ports. And as far as I know that these are truely 10gbe as the stacking ports are a different module.
Also a Dell 5548 has two integrated 10gb SPF+ and also integrated stacking. However I DO NOT recommend these if you are trying to do anything involving vlans, trunking, stacking as the firmware is buggy.
EDIT - also not sure that nas unit can do much more than 2x1gbe speeds regardless.
I use to have a 6224 I shouldn't have gotten rid of it. Oh well.
I think when those Intel X540's hit the shelves I may just make a new server box and stick two of those in there and set it up like a switch, not quite as full featured as a real switch or router, but probably cheaper and I can throw more VMs on it too.