Sorry I was wrong about the price of the Dell managed 24port gigabit switches, They are more like $1500 each.
The potential throughput is the key though, all to do with the speed of the backplane. That's why some switches are more expensive than the d-link/netgear types. There was a good review site for switches somewhere... but a quick search on the Steve Cassidy (real world) articles at www.pcpro.co.uk will turn up some interesting real world examples of good and bad switches. You only get what you pay for. I guess smaller surgeries don't need the huge speed across the backplane. However when ou start using nearly all the 24 ports you will notice a difference. Andrew.C -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew McIntyre Sent: Monday, 5 March 2007 8:39 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Which switch? Ian Cheong wrote: > At 1:30 pm +1000 4/3/07, Andrew wrote: >> Pretty sure it was under $1k for 24 managed gig ports. >> >> Andrew.C >> > > For under $1k, I can easily get two unmanaged 24 port gigabit > switches, which provides the redundancy I'd like. > > > Ian. There is a huge difference between managed and unmanaged switches, so thats not a fair comparison. In their defence Dell are very good at supporting server products, often exceeding their stated service levels. We recently had issues with a Dell blade server and they were very proactive in ensuring the problem was resolved. Andrew McIntyre _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
