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I'm looking at getting a 10 gigabit network switch. I only have 3 devices that could use that speed right now but I do plan on upgrading things over time.

Any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not op, but: I have 10gbit between by truenas server and my proxmox server. The use case is faster access to files from my proxmox server.

1gbit is actually quite slow when we talk disk speed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had exactly the same use case and I ended up with a 40G DAC fiber for that case. It ended up cheaper than converting the whole lan to 10G.

That said, it feels like used 10G equipment is easier to come by than 2.5G for now, and if you have 2G fiber uplink and only 1G past the router then it’s a waste.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Point of clarification: DAC is copper, AOC is fiber.

A lot of 10G equipment will support 5G/2.5G SFPs as well, so it can still be beneficial to go 10G on the core equipment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago