I am fully aware that is a switch and I use it for that but let me share (Again) Some real-life experiences and use cases:CRS is a switch, do not use it as your main router
- With 16 MB Storage I cannot use the feature for partition the storage for dual boot (in case a firmware upgrade goes wrong I can have a backup boot to recover quickly). Knowing that CRS still doesn't support Virtual Stacking then I cannot easily add another backup switch and even with that I like to be able to add resiliency where I can.
- I support a CRS312 that has 64 MB of RAM and the switch every week and half reboots randomly. Checking I see that memory usage gets max until the switch reboots. I don't have that issue with a CRS326 that has 512 MB RAM. My solution? Put a script to reboot daily the switch but this is not an elegant solution and brings other collateral problems but at least the switch doesn't reboot at the middle of the day affecting all the connected users.
- Being on a time that RAM and Storage are on the Gigabytes and very affordable I don't get why Mikrotik nickels and dimes these critical components.
- Any hAP AX2 / AX3 is a non starter for me as I deploy them with VLANs (1 Guest, 1 internal and 1 for IOT) and not be able to do L2 HW Offload with the new switch chips is a total downgrade against the AC equivalent versions that doesn't have those constrains.
Like I said, these new versions feels more like a downgrade as even the RouterOS supports everything you want, if the Hardware cannot support it is a Dead on Arrival.
Statistics: Posted by ksteink — Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:47 pm