The Perfect Compact Homelab Switch? - Mikrotik CRS310-8G+2S+IN

When Mikrotik asked if I'd be interested in reviewing their all new 2.5Gb network switch with 10Gb backhaul, of course I said yes! This 10-Port switch might be my new go-to recommendation for homelabs and small business installs alike.

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[JeffGeerling]

The little wings (especially the angle in the thumbnail) remind me so much of the flying toasters in After Dark

[kicis]

As proud Latvian - I see Mikrotik, I watch and like!

[sinry]

Just wanted to point out, these (and every crs3/5 switch) can do line rate layer 3. The switch chips in these things fully support that, what they can't do is line rate layer 4 (stateful firewall / NAT). So while it's true you wont want to use one of these for your internet edge router, using it for inter vlan routing or internal static / bgp routes is super doable at line rate.

[xKruzr]

I went all 10G a few years ago -- but the solution for this is still Mikrotik in the form of their CRS305/309/317 products. Go all 10G DAC for server-class device interconnect and a couple fiber transceivers for things further away from your server/switch closet and you're good to go.

[pedro_]

Mine arrived today, can't wait to have it set up!

[marudnymaruda]

got it a few weeks ago, using as a secondary homelab (build on NUCs) 2.5G access switch connected via SFP+ DAC to my home aggregate switch. Love that I can install two switches side to side in one 1U rack (using RMK2/10). But I hate, that I cannot mix the CRS309 and CRS310 in 1U (difference in size).

[beerman]

Home lab /home ! 10g for main workstation pc and NAS. 2.5g for router and mesh node uplinks. The rest are a bonus

[BlockchainShango]

Thank you for uploading.

Your video was very helpful in my research. Also, your Starfox 2 display in the background turned me into a 12yr old again. Many thanks for the smile and positive vibes.

Take care, everyone!

[Timi]

10gig homelab running lancache to 5 2.5gig gaming-PCs is great for our Christmas LAN!

[EmperorTerran]

2 hours ago I dropped it in my 10" rack, just on shelf for now as I am waiting for small ears - RMK-2/10, will see if I will need to add some spacers as the switch its quite deep for 10" racks.
So far its nice, I wish there were 4x SFP+ as two you plug your server and your main machine and thats it, if you separate nas and server in to two and you would want two machines with 10gbit you need to add stuff... but even the jump to 2.5gbit is super nice.
Bit correction there is no swOS for this model and likely wont be.

[TheJensss]

Make a PoE+ version and you have the "golden" home switch.

Also hoping their firmware on their cheaper switches gets better. The CSS610-8P-2S+IN had been working stable, but it has some bugs when configuring. Auto negotiation of speed on the sfp + ports does not work etc.

[David-qjze]

I have been using their cheapest ten gig switch for a while, but since I already have cat 6 to my wife's PC, I could hook her up with this switch as well. Awesome

[snapbox]

We want a POE version of this, like yesterday. (Mikrotik... give us a Netpower 16 version of this switch please please please!!!)

[popeter]

hoping they come out with a 24 port POE 2.5G version at some point

[GabrielGonzalez-fqup]

Love how concise and elaborative the video was.

Subscribed.

[sherrilltechnology]

I have a QNAP box and this switch would be perfect as I only need 3 ports at this moment, my QNAP box has 2 x 2.5Gbps ports and my computer has a 2.5Gbps port which would be perfect for transferring video and audio files between the 2, thanks so much Jeff and keep making great videos!

[OsXHAvY]

i JUST built a pfsense router with a similar feature set...an X520 dual 10G SFP+ card, a quad port 2.5G realtek nic, two realtek 2.5G single-port nics, and the 1G built-in realtek(?) nic, and its AMAZING...now my ubuntu nas and main proxmox vm server are connected with 10G, my backup proxmox vm server has quad 2.5G connections through some unmanaged 2.5G switches, my wifi comes off a 2.5G from the router to one of those cheap 5-port single 2.5+ uplink to quad 1G switches and then out to a pair of belkin APs running openwrt - its fantastic...a whole open-source house more or less and its to everything else is now no longer bottlenecked by network and i can get HDD speed from whatever to whatever else for media xfer

[chromerims]

A very interesting 2x 10gbe plus 8x 2.5gbe managed switch for home labbers.
Thank you.

[EriksRemess]

Week ago? I have had this switch since early September. Works without issues and it is my main switch for my homelab.

[valiradut]

instead of drinking beer action, I would like to see the router plugged in!