Cheap way to get 10gbe
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I just lagged my servers with 2GBE to each of my 6248's to get 4gb each. Uplinked the switches.. bandwidth it's not an issue.
What do you need 10 for?
What do you need 10 for?
I am not running 10GBE, it would be nice, but I don't have a need for it at the house. I have 6x 1GBE for iSCSI utilizing MPIO and I saturate the storage pools.
My business servers don't saturate 4GBE! I admit my company isn't huge but we aren't easy on them. Then again I'm currently using local datastores, the big cold storage is almost exclusively backups... Ironically that can peak 4gbe.. but never peaks a single pipe!
'Cheap way to get 10Gbe'...hahah isn't this almost counter-intuitive :-D
j/k, some of us get lucky and get insane 10G switch deals, save yourself the $ (unlike I did) and get Mellanox Connect-X 10G nics for $35-50 and forego the Intel route, sure they 'just work' but I paid a pretty penny for them new. Guess the used X520 lots are coming down in price/avail on ebay. Pay attn to nic/optic/switch FW vendor shinanigans!
j/k, some of us get lucky and get insane 10G switch deals, save yourself the $ (unlike I did) and get Mellanox Connect-X 10G nics for $35-50 and forego the Intel route, sure they 'just work' but I paid a pretty penny for them new. Guess the used X520 lots are coming down in price/avail on ebay. Pay attn to nic/optic/switch FW vendor shinanigans!
I've been looking at the Cisco sg500x-8f8t but that's 3k plus typically, dell makes a 4012 switch that isn't horribly expensive but it's all SFP+ and trancievers can add up, i've seen some netgear things but i'm not exactly fond of their equipment so none of them have stuck in memory.
I've got a Cisco 8F8T. It's nice. It's stacked up with my SG500X-48.
I've not tried the Dell X4012 yet, but keep in mind you don't need optics. SFP+ DA cables are the way to go as long as your runs are below 10m.
Netgear makes some cheap unmanaged and web-managed 8/12 port 10GBase-T switches that run about $100/port.
To be fair that should be a price for two. We bought a bunch of them for $1100/unit a while back. Which ended up with two in my lab 
. Considering some folks here have 24xSSD and 40gb of various flavours, 'cheap' is subjective in this crowd .
. Considering some folks here have 24xSSD and 40gb of various flavours, 'cheap' is subjective in this crowd .Which switch did you buy?To be fair that should be a price for two. We bought a bunch of them for $1100/unit a while back. Which ended up with two in my lab
We picked up 7 g8264's. Two in the datacenter, one cold spare/lab, 2 for my lab and flipped two. Upgraded from g8124's that I think I picked up for about $900 USD.
I am considering to switch over from my current 2414+ to a DS3018xs or a 1817+ but not sure if the older models 10 Gbit nics would work for instance they post on the website that only the newest models are really supported :Compatibiliteitsoverzicht | Synology Inc.
That basically would kill my idea to setup a cheap 10 Gbit connect to and from my workstation.
The purpose is that i think for the normal users 1 Gbit is enough but if large amounts of data has to be pumped from or on to the nas.
It also would speed up the second backup which i make to a storage device connected to my workstation which ensures a 2nd backup.
The main backup is arranged with synology c2 cloud backup solution which runs at the evening.
That basically would kill my idea to setup a cheap 10 Gbit connect to and from my workstation.
The purpose is that i think for the normal users 1 Gbit is enough but if large amounts of data has to be pumped from or on to the nas.
It also would speed up the second backup which i make to a storage device connected to my workstation which ensures a 2nd backup.
The main backup is arranged with synology c2 cloud backup solution which runs at the evening.
True but I have far more invested in SSD, memory etc.
Thing is even if you spend 2k on a 10g switch should last a lot of years now.