Best price/performance for 8..16 port switches?

[Eugene Leitl]

I'd like to echo Greg's question in regards to the smaller switches,
(which, since being consumer warez, ought have a better price/port
rate than the biggies, anyway). All candidates should be able to
tolerate 200 MBps (full duplex FastEthernet) on all ports without
whimpering too much.

(I'm writing my research proposal for an MD cluster, and would like to 
plug in real numbers into the estimate)