Top 48+ Port Switches with Full Management (Solutions)
Top 48+ Port Switches with Full Management (Solutions)
I prefer a managed setup. I'm using a Smart Managed switch and needed to turn on flow control for the Gigabit ports. Otherwise, reaching my NAS via the 10Gig port would drop significantly in performance compared to Gigabit, because of excessive traffic flooding the switch. I'm not sure why TCP congestion control didn't prevent this issue, but it did.
Considering the noise level in your workspace, I’d suggest looking into switches with quieter operation. The Dell 5548 is known for being loud, so alternatives with better sound profiles would be ideal. Options like the Netgear GS748T (v3 or v4), D-Link DGS-1210-48, PowerConnect models, and TRENDnet TEG-448WS could offer more balanced performance without excessive noise.
no 10g, so I’ll keep it that way—no serial port, not a fan of the web interface, no personal preference. It looks fine otherwise, so I’m taking this for the 10g. One thing to note is you might need to configure the web interface IP first with the serial port. For your intended use, these should function well with a clear web interface, and VLANs should work too. Personally, I’d pick the 5548 for the 10g, but if you’re not concerned about that, I can go for the cheaper option.
I chose the TRENDnet TEG-448WS because I realized I wouldn’t need the 10Gig ports. My setup will use standard NAS HDDs, which handle 200mb/s. With a 12-bay storage machine, the maximum transfer is around 2400mb/s, allowing me to configure three Gigabit VLANs. Thanks for your guidance through this!
I could be, these are the options I chose. https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-IronWolf-...le_ce?th=1 They claim speeds of "195MB/s". After some investigation, I realized what you meant. This could cause an issue for any switches since there wouldn’t be enough 10G ports for all the drives I want. If I fill all 12 bays on one server, I’d need two 10G connections per storage machine. It seems a switch with 48 ports and 8 10G ports would fit! (2 ports per machine). Do you think such a switch is available? My calculations came out to about 18,720 megabits—that math might be off.
Despite many disks, an all-HDD setup struggles to exceed 10Gb/s because HDDs have limited IOPS. A single 10Gb connection per storage server should suffice. Note: Your calculations assume only sequential transfers, which rarely applies in real servers.