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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

picture of a raspberrypi, switch, HP elite desk, KVM and mess of cables on a desk

Hey it's more than good enough to run all this ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

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[โ€“] poVoq@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not too many 8 port managed switches out there with an sfp+ 10gbe port for 50 bucks

Easy to get these days actually, with 10gbit sfp+ and 8x 2.5gbit, managed switches. About $60.

But my actual argument was that your 48 port switch eats electricity like crazy. That aint a cheap switch at all.

[โ€“] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The only brand new, 10gbe managed switches that I can find for less than 60 bucks are off-brand chinese junk. No thank you.

As far as electricity cost goes? After doing that math, it might cost me a dollar fifty a year to use. That machine sitting on the bottom is a much bigger chunk than the switch itself, as it has 6 7200rpm SAS drives in it. Plus it's a Xeon E3 CPU.

Those drives, each, use as much electricity as that switch does, even before considering the CPU itself.