A 10G copper/SFP+ switch that is still affordable and powerful
The XS708T is still very young (released in 2016 and then sold for around €900), but it is still one of the very few affordable managed switches offering 8 10 Gb/s ports (six copper ports, two SFP+/copper combo ports), all with a noise level that is bearable in an office or home environment. On the copper side, no problem with type 6 and above on links of a few tens of meters, no overheating but a fan noise that increases significantly as soon as the link quality drops (changing the standard 40 mm PWM bearing fan for a Noctua NF-A4x20 or equivalent with very low noise may be a good idea); On the SFP+, it's fine with the ones I have, whether it's with DAC on twinax (in cross-connect or short links) or fibre in SR (the XS708T already has 8 copper ports, so I haven't tested SFP+ on copper outside DAC). The administration is quite complete, level 2+ as they say, with an often messy interface, as always with Netgear. No problems in use, the thing is stable (the microcode has had time to be refined in five years), the speeds are there - except in the case of connecting a laptop via a USB 3/Ethernet 1 G adapter based on Realtek which is only seen in 100 Mb/s instead of 1 GB/s. So four stars for a solid product with very few real competitors at this price and feature level.
