Reviewing the SODOLA 8X10G SFP+ Switch.

[@protator]

If you want to run 10G copper, buy a RJ45 switch. They're designed to deal with the heat. 10G copper transceivers produce several watts of heat each, while with fiber it's only a fraction of a watt in idle and still

[@bloodyskiste9203]

i saw in a video, that especially the copper adapter is getting very hot because it draws so much more power compared to the other fibercable options. I dont think overheating would be a Problem if you dont use rj45 and instead use fiber only. Just a hypotesis, but ift draws near to no power it should behave that way or?

[@marburg7587]

For these kinds of devices it's important to have the fans as exhaust rather than intake. The 25mm fans as exhaust would have drawn air in from the vent holes on the other side and created airflow across the entire board. You can see on any switch that comes with a fan it will be exhaust.

[@truckerallikatuk]

As others have said, copper SFPs pull 3x the power of a fibre or DAC cable. Use Fibre or DACs wherever possible, it cuts your power draw and heat output. And everyone also recommends keeping a 1 slot gap between copper SFP+ modules, you can put a fibre or DAC in the gaps, but nothing else.

[@OfficialDJTazer]

I was looking to get this system with SFP 10Gb RJ45 adapters, due to the 10Gb Ethernet switches fan being so loud and this being fanless. It seems I’ll just install a Noctua fan in the Ethernet switch and get it from 24db to 18db, and be done with it.

[@kevinhughes9801]

Excellent detailed overview thank you

[@DavidBrownTheTechDjinn]

Running 10G with copper always generates a lot of heat. (it uses a ton more power!) We only run run fiber except in very specific situations and never to devices that use high throughput. (servers, storage devices, etc) The best course of action is to not use copper unless it's your only option. As you can imagine, a cheap 10G switch is likely not built to handle copper

[@protator]

Since you have the switch placed on top of your pfsense box, you should consider getting the 12V for the switch from the old HP's PSU. If it's like any of my HPs then it should have a rather nice 12vO 80+ Platinum or Titanium PSU. All the power the switch could ever need, and far more reliable and energy-efficient than a crappy little no-name power brick made by china's finest.

[@shephusted2714]

i recently got a sodola 2.5 + 2 10g - works great once you enable jumbo frames- the only things i would add to this would be maybe to make more vents in switch case to lower static pressure and pass more air and add more ram to opnsense fw in case you want to run intrusion detection and stuff like zen armor

[@DennyHeuer]

thank you for the Informations.... good to knew... greatings from Hamburg ;-)

[@LiLBitsDK]

if you use the rj45 copper then yes it WILL overheat, they get insanely hot, not the switches fault... stick with sfp+ cables...

[@PrimalNaCl]

Greetings fellow Wolfe. I see your tribe could afford the 'e' as well.

[@NorthCityWestProductions]

Anybody else having issues accessing the interface?

[@drequshorui]

Just remove the top metal cover... Se if it makes a difference... I have a xikestor 10 gb sfp sw... Was getting very hot. Removed the case for installing fans... Temps normalized immediately..

[@marudnymaruda1900]

let's say: fiber spf+ consumes 0.7-1W per port, copper - 2-5W per port. they are power and temperature monsters...

[@katlegobopape9760]

Changing the VLAN is similar to how Moxa does it.