Etern4l Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 I have a couple of devices that would provide opportunity for bonding / link aggregation. Specifically one could do 2x2.5G, and another 1+1+2.5G (if that's even possible, probably not). Thoughts on switch options with 802.3ad support? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 What devices are you trying to bond? You're not likely to find a 2.5gbps switch that is managed for less than $300 afaik. You could do a true 10gbps setup for much less. *on edit* Here is an example: https://www.adorama.com/qnwm21082sus.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwtp2bBhAGEiwAOZZTuGqXUrZgBJ1d125PMArTIkbr5xeR1MCOt4TB5Bnw0pSzpZugv0OPHRoC8mQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&utm_source=adl-gbase-p 2 Desktop | Intel i7-12700k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3420DW | 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Intel I7-12700k | MSI Pro Z690 DDR4 | EVGA 3060 Ti 8GB FTW3 Ultra | 64GB 3600MHz CL16 Neo | 1TB SX8200 | 100+TB | Lenovo Thinkbook 16P Gen2 | AMD 5600H | RTX 3060 | 24GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 16:10 16" | Tweaked |Dell XPS 9310 2-in-1 | Intel i5-1135G7 | 16GB 4267mhz | 512GB | 16:10 | Tweaked | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reciever Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Also somewhat interested in this topic :) 1 Telegram / TS3 / Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etern4l Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 Yes, I ended up looking at the Qnap models, they have some around $300-400 as you said, but the white consumer variant seemed kind of flaky (according to a review), and 802.3ad bonding sounds like more trouble than it's worth in my case. Grabbed an unmanaged 2.5G TPLink for now, will upgrade to 10GbE if this feels like a significant bottleneck. The use case is mostly comms with the NAS at this point, which doesn't really have the I/O to support 5GbE or 10GbE (although a large, like 2x2TB SSD cache would probably improve things if badly needed). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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