from JeanValjean@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 11 Aug 15:51
https://piefed.social/post/1135274
So, I found an Elitedesk 800 G5 i7-9700 at a price I was willing to pay, have ordered it, and it will be here next week. Now on to replace switches to save power.
Again, working for an MSP, I have enterprise grade switches for the basement distribution and garage access switches.
I try to keep one access switch in the same hardware class as the distribution switch in case of hardware failure. I don't really need that level of switch in the garage, but if the SHTF, I can do without internet in the garage for a few days, not so much in the house.
I'm currently running a HP 3500-48G-PoE+ yl Switch (J9311A) for the distribution switch, and a HP 3500-24G-PoE+ yl Switch (J9310A) as the garage switch. My 2nd floor access switch is a USW-FLEX-MINI, though I'm looking to add a second one of these in the attic.
My current distribution and garage switches together idle at 226 watts, according to their spec sheets. I want to reduce that.
After doing a hardware inventory, I can get by with 8 ports for the basement distribution switch, with at most 3 for PoE/PoE+, though I may need to move a raspberry Pi from the Distribution switch to an access switch.
In the garage, the access switch is only hosting a PoE camera and access point, so there 8 ports is overkill, but hardware redundancy.
I'm spec'ing PoE+ over straight PoE for future-proofing, Wifi 7 etc.
I'm looking at the Netgear GS308EP or the TP-Link TL-SG108PE V5 as good enough replacements, as they both seem to do PoE+, QoS, and VLANs, which I use to keep IOT things separated.
Anybody here have a preference between those, or something I haven't pondered which would be a better fit for my needs?
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