I've been a huge fan of Procurve for at least 8 years when I replaced some Cisco and Bay Networks kit for the first gen Procurve gigabit kit in the form of a 5304 chassis.
In the last couple of years I've been picking up the 2510G-48's which if you shop around can find for around $1000, especially if you buy more than 5 as there is a lot of margin on them. But the big win that I just tried was picking one up off ebay which was claimed to be dead for $200 (by the time it got to me it was $300 with shipping, brokerage, etc). The CLI was still talking, so I flashed it with the latest greatest and it ran about 1/4 of the ports and 10/100 but had serious problems. I opened a ticket with Procurve, had to pay for the shipping to send it to them, but they sent me a brand new one back (different serial number and had that new switch smell). Theoretically all Procurve stuff has a lifetime warranty, so its worth the gamble I think. And the performance is much better than anything you are ever going to see from a Netgear or the "consumer" level SMB junk. I even know a couple of folks using Procurve switches as their iSCSI switches for SAN's getting close to 120meg throughput on them across the fabric! Cheers, On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:52:56AM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote: > > I'm not using that exact model, but I have two GS724Tv3 units in > > I have two GS748TS (with a few 1G GBICs) in production, but for a > couple dead fans no hardware problems yet. I'm not using the more > advanced features, and I'm not driving them with a lot of traffic, > so I can't really say how buggy they are. > > > production. Hardware is decent - no dead ports so far (~10 months). > Mine > > are the "web smart" type without a serial port or CLI, so configuring > > VLANs is a royal pain in the ass. Other than that, the software is > > acceptable without being great in any way. > > I have a good friend who resells that model (and the GS748 also) and he's > > got about 12 of them in production at various customer sites. In ~3 > > years, I think he's had to return 2 of them so far due to dead ports. > One > > dead port is a (lifetime) warranty problem. > > Yeah, I figured even as a couple of L2 switches with 10G optical uplink > over about ~50 m of MMF should be acceptable. If they die, I'll RMA them. > The problem is that I can't find any reviews or even useful user > experiences > with that model. That concerns me a bit. > > > If you need to save money, Netgear seems to be OK. But I'd still rather > > have a ProCurve. > > I'd rather have a Juniper. If couldn't get that, a ProCurve. But it > seems I'm cursed with the Netgears. I'm loath to spend >5.5 kEUR on > what might turn out to be lemons, particularly with the security > and IPv6 feature set. > > > -Adam Thompson > > athom...@athompso.net > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Eugen Leitl [mailto:eu...@leitl.org] > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 15:11 > > > To: discussion@pfsense.com > > > Subject: [pfSense-discussion] anyone using Netgear GSM7352S-200 ? > > > > > > > > > This is offtopic, but I figured this would be a good place to > > > ask. Anyone using Netgear GSM7352S-200 in production? > > > > > > http://www.netgear.com/images/GSM7328Sv2_GSM7352Sv2_23Sept1018- > > > 10817.pdf > > > > > > I know, it's Netgear, but how badly does it blow chunks? > > > Inquiring minds, etc. > > > > > > (Disclaimer: I am currently using Netgear and HP ProCurve, and > > > thought to upgrade to Juniper, or at least ProCurve, but have > > > severe budget issues: 6 kEUR for 2 48-port switches). > > > > > > -- > > > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > > > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > > > For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com > > > > > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > > For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com > > > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
