HORACO 9 Port 2 5G + SFP+ Uplink Fanless Switch for $95

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mr2dave

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Dude, nice review! I appreciate the iperf and power consumption tests, and that there's no affiliate slime on your links. Subscribed.
 
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For the $20 discount, you need to buy $999.00 worth of stuff.
You can get $3 discount if you just buy this switch.
The price in the posting is very misleading.
 
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Cruzader

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There is a handful of brands selling these.

TP-Link also has some managed 16/24x 2.5g with 4/6/8x sfp+ starting at 350-400.
Shame they have not released the western versions of them yet tho, the English version gui on the Chinese releases are horrible translations.
 
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How do they handle warranty ? Send back to China ?

Fanless multi-gig stuff has a tendency to die unfortunately. I'm looking at you TP-Link with the SX105 . Had one die at about a year. They honored the lifetime warranty, though. Even paid shipping.
 
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pheda

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lopgok said:
For the $20 discount, you need to buy $999.00 worth of stuff.
You can get $3 discount if you just buy this switch.
The price in the posting is very misleading.
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Just wait for the promotions, in video review , it had $15 off due to aliexpress promotion, it will come back again soon... but I wont recommend this product due to discount (its unknown company), but I see this as unique combination and price/performance/power compensation in the market... very soon tplink and others will copy this configuration I guess....
 
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mr2dave said:
Dude, nice review! I appreciate the iperf and power consumption tests, and that there's no affiliate slime on your links. Subscribed.
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Thx!!

madbrain said:
How do they handle warranty ? Send back to China ?

Fanless multi-gig stuff has a tendency to die unfortunately. I'm looking at you TP-Link with the SX105 . Had one die at about a year. They honored the lifetime warranty, though. Even paid shipping.
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Seriously no idea... its probably a risk to consider...
 
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pheda said:
but I see this as unique combination and price/performance/power compensation in the market... very soon tplink and others will copy this configuration I guess....
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You can pretty much reverse that order.
Tplink had simular models on the chinese market since before the generic ones came.

They had 4/8/12 port with 1-2x sfp+ desktop models like this.
i belive they pulled them tho and focused on rack models, they have 3 series of 2.5gbe switches that are only sold in china.
The 24x 2.5gbe 8x sfp+ ive been looking at as ceph switch is available in managed and unmanaged series.

As much as they are a bit of a meme consumer brand in the west they do have full enterprise lines in Chinese market.
Hopefully their beefy 2.5gbe stuff does not remain China only also.

How much of a paralell universe would it feel like you have entered if you saw this tplink in a DC? :D
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Cruzader said:
You can pretty much reverse that order.
Tplink had simular models on the chinese market since before the generic ones came.

They had 4/8/12 port with 1-2x sfp+ desktop models like this.
i belive they pulled them tho and focused on rack models, they have 3 series of 2.5gbe switches that are only sold in china.
The 24x 2.5gbe 8x sfp+ ive been looking at as ceph switch is available in managed and unmanaged series.

As much as they are a bit of a meme consumer brand in the west they do have full enterprise lines in Chinese market.
Hopefully their beefy 2.5gbe stuff does not remain China only also.

How much of a paralell universe would it feel like you have entered if you saw this tplink in a DC? :D
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agree... my needs are mostly as home user, had my eyes on 24x 2.5gbe 8x sfp+ but was totally overkill from power consumption as well as costing $570.... I paid $75 with promotion and that's why bought this model... after using it for last 1 week seems like a useful addition...
 
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We really posting slickdeals from ali express now? What if we don’t want to wait two weeks for it to ship from China?

pass
 
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pheda said:
agree... my needs are mostly as home user, had my eyes on 24x 2.5gbe 8x sfp+ but was totally overkill from power consumption as well as costing $570.... I paid $75 with promotion and that's why bought this model... after using it for last 1 week seems like a useful addition...
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Feels like the 2.5gbe market really seems to have almost stopped for the western world sadly.
2.5gbe nics are down at 10-12$ now on regular pci-e/mini pcie/m.2/usb3 etc from China and keeps coming more switches.

While cheapest i can get localy here is almost 50€ per port if i want managed 2.5gbe with 10g uplinks.
Its actualy cheaper to buy connectx3 lots and run 10g links that get limited to 3-4g on my celeron boards than to get 2.5gbe.

Hopefully either tplink releases more of their 2.5gbe stuff in the western markets or mikrotik starts releasing some 2.5gbe
 
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We have one or two of these, and likely another brand of the same switch coming as well for the 2.5GbE round-up series. Moving this to networking.
 
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