Which switch to choose HP Aruba 2530 48G (J9775A) or MIKROTIK CRS354-48G-4S+2Q+RM?

Question

network hardware

Good day to all!
Tell me, please, which switch to choose
HP Aruba 2530 48G (J9775A) or MIKROTIK CRS354-48G-4S + 2Q + RM
I can’t choose according to the characteristics. Mikrotik has less RAM, but the internal bandwidth is higher (if Mikrotik has an OS that is less demanding on hardware, then RAM is not a very important parameter?
) a switch may be needed until I understand). But HP is not just more expensive, maybe the reliability is somehow higher or security (ease of deploying a radius server, etc.). I have not yet reached the stacking of switches, I only know some basics of the theory, but I would also like to understand that it will be better in this regard (so far there are not so many switches, but still).

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

With HP, you will pay for the brand, reliability guarantee (but usually this is an additional contract) and other goodies. And yes, HP does not eat other people's SFP + modules, keep this in mind.
With Mikrotik, you will have slightly less reliability in both software and hardware, the risk of becoming a beta tester, as well as omnivorousness in terms of SFP

Answer 2

Get a Mikrotik, you can't go wrong

Answer 3

If you are bored and have nothing to do in "languid" evenings - take Mikrotik.
HPE set up once and forgot. They have been working in the rack for more than 5 years, there are no problems. But as it was rightly noted - "eats" only its own, but building a "heterogeneous" structure is bad manners.

Answer 4

Well, on the one hand, HP is reliability, trouble-free and quality, a piece of iron from the category of "set it and forget it" (the main thing is not to forget the password, because not a single recipe for recovering passwords that I recently searched for on the Internet did not fit, except for deleting mgrinfo.txt).
On the other hand, capriciousness to SFP (although the allow-unsupported-transceiver in the switch config somewhat solves the problem), an absurd beautiful muzzle, in which practically nothing can be done, and a slightly more terrible and slightly more functional "traditional" muzzle - and the full configuration is only with console or ssh :)