QNAP 16-port 25 Gigabit switch for £1K

For the networking nerd with a miniature Google Cloud Datacentre in their bedroom....brought to you by QNAP....yes the NAS storage dudes.....uh huh that's what I was thinking too 🤪

https://www.servethehome.com/qnap-qsw-m5216-1t-16-po...

Good old Broadband Buyer stocking them from March. Roll up, roll up!

I wonder how many will be bought by those who "just have to have one"

Who needs more than 1Gbps

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Who needs more than 1Gbps

Unfortunately that would be me, I max out my gigabit links quite often. All my data is stored on the network

In reply to a post by RR_The_IT_Guy:

Unfortunately that would be me, I max out my gigabit links quite often. All my data is stored on the network

The link between the lounge and bedroom datacentres must take a pounding in your parents house

And there was me thinking 10Gbps was excessive in a home environment.

In reply to a post by dect:

The link between the lounge and bedroom datacentres must take a pounding in your parents house

More than two links, there is a dedicated link to the two offices, my office currently has a max of 1Gbps the other office is on 100Meg. Ran out of ports on the gigabit switches so grabbed an old HP Procurve 24 port with POE that can only do 100 Meg. I do have to say that there is a noticeable difference between opening some files in one office compared to the other, a perfect example was when I did some video editing for someone and everything was fast and responsive in premiere pro with some RAW 4K footage then in the over office it just lagged about whenever i moved playhead.


Thought I would add, I have since added another NAS to replace my old 12TB (RAW storage) 6TB in raid Synology DS216J with a Synology DS920+ with four 6TB Seagate ironwolf Pro's 24TB RAW, 12 TB in raid 10 (i think).
I might add some M.2 SSD's for cache in future. (No need at the current time)

The reason for the change in NAS is because the DS216J was underpowered and was struggling. Now things are running a lot smoother, logining in is faster and drives are mounted correctly without having to log in and out every so often when explorer or the automatic drive mounting script would just freeze on logon as the NAS was struggling.

The old DS216J is now used with hyper backup and is in my office, it does daily incremental backups at 3AM. The new NAS set up works a lot better than before, the network is the bottleneck.

I mean look at yesterdays BMQ Virgin Media had some serious issues.

Bond the two GigE ports on the NAS to maximise throughput.

Don’t bother with the SSD cache devices. Mine have both gone the way of the dodo (Samsung EVO 850s). Bit [censored] off with them if I’m honest.

Mikrotik do a good line in cheap, passive cooled 10GbE capable switches. 4 port and 8 port versions. Very good and quiet.

You can run a some pre-terminated and armoured 3mm OD single core of 9/125 singlemode like the antenna guys use, you can buy 50m drums of Global Invacom from CPC/Farnell for like £40 or so. and put BiDi SFP+ on the ends from fs.com for around £20 each. Hey presto 10 GbE uplinks.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Bond the two GigE ports on the NAS to maximise throughput.

Don’t bother with the SSD cache devices. Mine have both gone the way of the dodo (Samsung EVO 850s). Bit [censored] off with them if I’m honest.

Mikrotik do a good line in cheap, passive cooled 10GbE capable switches. 4 port and 8 port versions. Very good and quiet.

You can run a some pre-terminated and armoured 3mm OD single core of 9/125 singlemode like the antenna guys use, you can buy 50m drums of Global Invacom from CPC/Farnell for like £40 or so. and put BiDi SFP+ on the ends from fs.com for around £20 each. Hey presto 10 GbE uplinks.

I think looking at what you said maybe one of these https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/44060-mikrot... each end, I was looking at thisarmored cable 30M 4 core, OS2 9/125, LC each end, do you think i should chose SWA armoured over CST? The thing is after comparing your price compared to this there is a massive difference, do you know where i could get 30M lengths ideally LC connectors (2 or 4 cores)?

I was also considering sticking one of these breakout boxes either end connecting to the transceivers with a standard LC - LC Singlemode (9/125) Duplex Fibre Patch Lead

i had looked at FS.con but prices have gone up and shipping fees need adding so by that point the benefits of the low price have outweighed the inconvenience.

I found these not sure if they would be any good Transceivers

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Who needs more than 1Gbps

1GB/s is slow when moving large files, sadly my Nas is only 1Gb/s, so getting a faster network, will not make any difference