Supermicro SSE-G48-TG4 Anyone ever use?

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Looking at Newegg there is a Supermicro SSE-G48-TG4 for about $1,550 which is much less expensive than elsewhere. 4x 10gb and 48 gigabit ports. Know little about these since I usually use Dell or HP but just seems like Newegg is much less expensive.
 

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I was looking for something similar and found my kind of price on eBay: $450

That said, I ended up buying one of these instead, which is Infiniband instead of Ethernet I'll admit, but still means fast bandwidth for cheap when combined with those $100 QDR cards from a few weeks ago.


Looking at Newegg there is a Supermicro SSE-G48-TG4 for about $1,550 which is much less expensive than elsewhere. 4x 10gb and 48 gigabit ports. Know little about these since I usually use Dell or HP but just seems like Newegg is much less expensive.
 
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It's slightly off-topic, but have you noticed the power consumption of 10Gbe switches? 150 watts is normal! That's an enormous amount of power compared to Gbe switches, which run 20-50 watts.
True, but remember that first gen Intel 10GbE controllers used a ton of power per port. On the other hand 1GbE is so mature at this point that manufacturers have been able to introduce many generations of power optimizations.
 

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dba, 150W for base-t switches or sfp+? Nexus 5548P says typical operating of ~350W with 48 sfp+ ports. Though, the Nexus is not just a simple layer 2 switch. 150W for 48 10Gbase-t ports seems not so bad.
 

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Actually, the switches that I checked were those that featured a pile of Gbe ports plus a few 10Gbe ports - two or four usually. Adding a few fast ports to a Gbe switch seems to triple the power consumption, which seems odd. Here I am trying to shave single-digit watts off of servers only to blow the power budget just by adding a single switch. By the way, 150 watts adds up to $25/month worth of electricity in my area.

Of course in a data center, using 350 watts for 48 servers means seven watts per server, which isn't that bad. But in a small lab, feeding electrons to 10Gbe Ethernet gets expensive quickly.

dba, 150W for base-t switches or sfp+? Nexus 5548P says typical operating of ~350W with 48 sfp+ ports. Though, the Nexus is not just a simple layer 2 switch. 150W for 48 10Gbase-t ports seems not so bad.
 

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btw, you can stack any members of the Dell 62xx family (6224/6248/6248P)

2 stack modules per switch, 2 CX-4 ports per module

Modules can be configured (in the GUI) for Stacking or 10GbE

This is a nice & inexpensive way to go 10Gbe assuming you have CX4 NICs
 

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Which one for $300-400? At those prices I might upgrade a 2724... or instead of upgrade... gently re-deploy that one as it does work well :)
 

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dba, haven't tried it myself but one would assume the CX4-QSFP cbl should work

What will NOT work is an active optical CX4 cable, in case you need to go more than 15M

In the past, I've bought 6224/6248 with Stacking modules as low as 500

At that price (on ebay), they go real fast

Remember either module (Stacking or 10GbE) will work, always get the cheapest one
 

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Still have not found one for those prices. I do want to find a decent switch with a few 10gbe ports now.