THIS is the Cheapest 8-Port 10Gbase-T 10GbE Switch

We found the cheapest 8-port 10Gbase-T switch that is managed and has a cheap PoE+ option for less than a third of what competitive solutions would cost. This is crazy! It may just be the new #homelab switch of choice.

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
01:38 Pricing
03:20 External Hardware Overview
05:58 Internal Hardware Overview
07:38 Power Consumption and Noise
09:44 10GbE Performance
10:47 Management Web Interface
12:48 Key Lessons Learned
14:21 Wrap-up

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[PsychoStreak]

I'm one of those that kept asking for this type of switch. 10Gbase-T gets more people in the game without the need for new cabling, or media converters. Add a few 10Gb NICs to your systems and this is a drop in upgrade for a small LAN or lab setup.

Netgear or a similar company is just leaving money on the table by not getting a design like that certified, slap a warranty on it and painting it in their color scheme.
I'd snap one up quickly for my home setup.

[joshhardin]

ZOMG! this is EXAAAACTLY WHAT I WANTED!!! (i've been complaining on the 2.5g switch video comments about how there's no cheap and decent-enough 10g switches around) THANK YOU for reviewing this! this looks fantastic!

[CielMC]

As a Chinese, having these switches available for no shipping makes the human rights violations almost worth it.

[pjfonline]

The prices doubled since this video....

[FrenziedManbeast]

Thanks for taking the time to do price options and alternatives for the video. That will help keep this video relevant as market changes over months/years to let people see relative costs over time. I enjoyed this video, and was thinking this morning you could probably do a few high quality "long-term" reviews on products you've had silently running for months/years. I know there's a constant revolving door of things coming and going for you, but consumers (such as myself) value reliability over sticker price highly. Hearing from you about the "silent warriors" of your business that just work and don't require constant attention could be extremely useful. This could also be an opportunity to talk about the STH Editor's Choice awards and show us a bit more behind the curtain as to what it takes for you to give the nod to the best of the best.

[llothar]

Great. Finally after only 20 years since the standard was released in 2002 we finally have affordable 10GBit Ethernet.
Will it now take to 2045 to get 100GBit?

[timrobertson]

One of the important items you briefly covered was an option for the Management VLAN selection. This is MISSING from so many of the NetGear and TP-Link managed products and lacking this is a total FULL STOP for me. At the price, these are now within reach for my next home network upgrade. Thanks for helping me discover these affordable options.

[seantellsit]

Fire! Overall great video, great intro, killer steal of a product, and as always, your charisma is unmatched.

[RamaOlama]

Nice, it's perfect, thank you for the info!
Perfect manageable homelab switch with Poe 😍

[TdrSld]

Just to note, it looks as thought the fan headers are on the non POE board for the second set of fans. They are just below the power supply input on the main board, so if you get you two more fans for the non POE as long as you can get he right header connector you should be GTG.

[rodfer]

Yes, current 10gbe switches are TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!! Great review.

[blunden]

It's nice to see that you can build good 10GBase-T switches using a cheap platform. Since it's likely based on someone else's reference design, hopefully other lesser known manufacturers (Mokerlink, etc.) will use the same design but go through the effort of regulatory compliance testing for a slight mark-up. I doubt the well-known brands will do so until these type of switches become more readily available.

[bjornroesbeke]

It's about time these 10Gbit (semi-) managed switches started coming down in price!
In my case the PoE version is currently priced at € 320, 48 + 40, 13 shipping.
That's still not cheap imo, but it is finally in my price range. That's 110 more than what i paid for my SG300-52P gigabit switch.
Hasivo will probably increase their prices now that we're all going to place our orders, based on this video!

[barbatocedric]

They have already increase the price, thanks !

[MrDirectNL]

This is exactly why I love this channel ! Ordered both of them. Thanks !

[hateWinVista]

Damn, Realtek really is dominating in these budget solutions.

[koolbob]

Bought one of these from your review. It stopped working and smells like burning plastic so i sent it back

[forbiddenera]

Looking closer at the hardware, Port 1 should definitely be PoE as well, all 8 ports have PoE lights and the PoE board has 8 fets

[jwo]

Definitely want to see more affordable 8 port 10gbps switches on the market.

I feel like with the rising popularity and speed of NAS particularly SSD based NAS investing in 2.5 or 5 gaps switches is a bit of a false economy and a potential bottleneck.

Fantastic and enjoyable reviews, I look forward to seeing new kit.

I'd love to see reviews on wider range of things like small board computers like r.pis, add ons to make clusters to bigger desktop and server mobo for people who like to build their own equipment

Oh and it would be useful to see a feature/cost comparison table for all equipment tested so it's easier to shortlist candidate equipment and focus on appropriate video

[theangelofspace]

Out of the whole video the onky think that caught my attention was the small reverse poe board, I would love a video adding one of those boards ($6 in ali) to a regular cheap switch.