10GBe Switch

MartinIAm · February 9, 2020

Would the Arista DCS-7124SX-F be a good switch for 10 gigabit? I found it on eBay for $250 and I think for 24 ports of sfp+ is really good. Is $250 for a 10 gigabit, 24 port, layer 2/3 switch a good bang for it's buck? Planning to use it for my dual server setup for fast data transfer across them and multiple other computers on the network. What do you guys think?

Blue4130 · February 9, 2020

The specs look good, but it's going to be deafeningly loud. If you have a server room, go for it. If it's in your living space, I'd think hard about how much noise you can tolerate.

jasonvp · February 10, 2020

As the first reply pointed out: loud. Very loud. It's intended for a data center rack, not an office. So bear that in mind.

Also, Arista isn't set up to deal with end users at all. You're not going to get any support whatsoever through them, and that includes code updates. So whatever code is running on it is all you're ever going to be able to use. And, that may be OK for your purposes, but it's something to keep in mind.

MartinIAm · February 12, 2020

On 2/9/2020 at 7:07 PM, jasonvp said:

As the first reply pointed out: loud. Very loud. It's intended for a data center rack, not an office. So bear that in mind.

Also, Arista isn't set up to deal with end users at all. You're not going to get any support whatsoever through them, and that includes code updates. So whatever code is running on it is all you're ever going to be able to use. And, that may be OK for your purposes, but it's something to keep in mind.

Yea, I'm not planning to do anything too advanced with it anyway other than to use it's switching capacity and simple layer 3 functionalities.

MartinIAm · February 12, 2020

On 2/9/2020 at 4:58 PM, Blue4130 said:

The specs look good, but it's going to be deafeningly loud. If you have a server room, go for it. If it's in your living space, I'd think hard about how much noise you can tolerate.

Yes, I will be running this inside of a server room with other loud equipment so that shouldn't be a problem for me.

EDIT: I have bought and received the switch and yes, it is loud. At boot is is very loud, but even after it calms down it is my personal loudest switch I've ever owned, BUT I am fine with this as I'm not concerned about noise level and it was a good value.