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I just upgraded some of my home network to 10 Gbps; it was way cheaper than I thought: - 3 NICs with SPF+ at ~ $45 a piece - 1 switch with 4 SFP+ and 1 RJ45@1
by AdrianB1 5y ago
I just upgraded some of my home network to 10 Gbps; it was way cheaper than I thought:
- 3 NICs with SPF+ at ~ $45 a piece
- 1 switch with 4 SFP+ and 1 RJ45@1Gbps: $140
- 1 switch with 2 SFP+ and 8 x RJ45@1Gbps: $100
- ~ $100 for all the DACs and AOCs
So I have the backbone and 3 computers @ 10 Gbps and a number of other devices left at 1 Gbps, all for $500. This is just because I have many devices connected and some longer optic cables instead of DACs, otherwise it would be just half of that. But yes, going to 25 Gbps is a different game, probably 5x the price or more.
- hedora 5y agoWhat's the power consumption on that stuff? Last time I checked 10GBit switches were drawing high 100's of watts.
- glowingly 5y agoThe specs of the two switches could be the Mikrotik CRS305 and the CSS610. Probably less than 20W under load (assuming DAC or SFP+ SR Multimode). My setup has a CRS309 (8 SFP+) and CSS610, and it's 12W with almost all ports active (though not much load).