Best 8 port managed switch for home lab with 10 Gbe?

[keymoo]

I need an 8+ port managed switch that can support at least one PoE connection and at least two 10 Gbe connections. I'm on a budget so interested in the most cost effective product. Any suggestions?

It's about time I allowed 10 Gbe access to my NAS box from my other devices.

 

[Caged]

The MikroTik CSS610-8G-2S+IN does that except for the PoE requirement, but it's very cheap. The Qnap QSW-M2116P-2T2S does everything you want but at a significantly higher cost.

 

[JohnStewart]

I've also recently been looking for a new 10G capable sw. itch, but with 10 ports instead of 8.

The Zyxel XGS1250-12 seemed to be good value to me for the number of 1G ports and 3x 10Gbe connections and 1x 10G SPF+ connection for about £240. It doesn't do PoE however but if you only needed one port you could use a PoE injector which are widely available for not much money. If you can live without the management functions, then the XGS1010-12 is available for about £120.

I was looking for a switch which allowed both port security (restricting a port to a specific MAC address), and time based access to effectively disable some ports at specific times of the day, and the 1250-12 doesn't have this level of configurability. I'd need to use their XS1930-10 instead which does have these functions. However it's about twice the price as all ports are 10G capable which puts it on a par pricewise with some Netgear 10G switches, and it's a bit more than I was willing to pay.

I'm currently trawling through the Netgear, Microtik and QNAP options to find the best solution and value for money.

 

[WJA96]

There are very few 10GbE PoE switches as the use-case is limited at the moment. We deploy the Ubiquiti UniFi USW-XG-6 which has 4 x 802.11bt PoE++ 10GBaseT ports and two SFP+ ports. That’s £500. For similar money (£650) you get the UniFi Enterprise 24 PoE switch which has 24 x 2.5GBaseT 802.11af PoE ports and 2x SFP+ ports. For pure 10GbE installs we currently deploy one or more of the UniFi Enterprise XG 24 which has 24 x 10GBaseT ports and two SFP+ ports (£1100).

10GbE is still stupidly expensive and to get exactly what you specified in the OP is not going to be cheap.

We only use the USW-XG-6 with the UniFi UAP-XG because it’s the only access point that has a 10GbE PoE uplink. And in high density areas we can see the 10GbE link being used (UAP-XG has two 4x4 5GHz access points inside it).