Originally posted by numacross
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Since now datacenters are migrating to bigger and better, (like 40Gbit or even 100Gbit), these things are now available as "used" stock all over the usual channels (ebay and others), with the mesh/interconnect or even fibre as cheap as a friggin Gbit ethernet and sub-100 for a dual-10Gbit RJ45 (i.e. normal ethernet cable) card.
It's completely insane.
Btw, just throwing it out there, the first affordable "desktop 10Gbit switch" is also arrived https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in
You get a fanless switch with 4 SFP+ ports capable of 10Gbit for less than 150$, which means that if you stay on fiber SFP+ modules or even just use the short-range SFP+ cables you can get away with an astonishingly cheap home 10Gb setup.
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