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Switched my core network for 10g last summer with no regrets, can imagine life without it now tbh

For what cost?

hardly anything, old mellanox NICs are practically free on eBay, DACs and 10g optics are a pittance. Even DC 10g switching is cheap. Franky, 100ge is within home budgets now.

Dollars, please express your opinions in monetary values.

i personally spent about 700$ - but i got a fancy managed switch. NICs for were about 200$

I've got some Mellanox cards for about 20-30 USD each, some direct attach cable can be had for a few dollars as well. Later I picked up some cheap optical gear from FS[1] for when I moved my NAS into another room. About $20 for the transceivers and fiber cable was not expensive either.

Regular 1GbE is sooo low now.

Not got the switch yet, just running point to point. Using a different IP range so I'm sure I'm hitting that 10G goodness.

[1]: https://www.fs.com

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