Cheaper used, and not cheaper if you have to to actually pull and terminate OM4 cable. Plus, the long term costs tend to be higher, because optical SFPs are the

Cheaper used, and not cheaper if you have to to actually pull and terminate OM4 cable. Plus, the long term costs tend to be higher, because optical SFPs are the modern equivalent of spinning rust when it comes to failure rates. And the prices of 10GbaseT parts are falling too. And for home use, it runs just fine on quality cat5e.