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Originally Posted by Graham M
Save yourself a few pounds and go with an unmanaged unless you plan to scale up the business massively in the near future, managed switches are excellent at configuring things like VLANs where you need separate groups of people access only to certain servers and that kind of thing, but if you never intend on going that far, you won't go too far wrong with unmanaged  |
That was more or less what I was thinking, having looked at the Baystack options. Most of what is possible through the management console is never likely to be used for a business on this scale.
I'm thinking that the increase in speed overall from a cheaper unmanaged switch is all good, with no obvious downside.