What sort of price range, and do you want a managed switch or not?
Dell has a halfway decent 24 port managed GB switch for $600. I have
five of them in my racks. They do the job, but there is better, just not
at that price range.
If you're looking at the $1-200 price range then any of the usual
consumer level stuff will work just about the same. Just don't expect
blazing fast speeds over it.
Gary Udstrand wrote:
I have finally gotten around to building my NAS and have it online
happily storing my many gigabytes of files. To maximize its use I want
to upgrade my network to gigabit which means I need a switch and a
couple cards. There are all the usual suspects, netgear, linksys,
d-link, etc.. Are any of them better than the rest? A 5 port switch
would probably suffice but 8-10 ports would be prefered all things
considered. :-)
And I would be remiss if I did not take the time to say thanks to
everyone who guided me along the way to NAS nirvana. :-) I took an old
PC, added 4x500M SATA drives, and LSI 150-4 true hardware RAID 5
controller and a beefed up power supply and added NASLite-2 CDD and
presto! Instant NAS. Fast, simple and cost effective and best of all
2TB of storage! (Well, 1.5T really after adding RAID 5 to the mix).
Again, thanks to all who took the time to answer my questions. I
appreciate it very much. :-)
--
-Gary
