Do you guys still recommend SFP+ over 10g Base-T nowadays for homelab use?
Now that 10 gig networking is quickly becoming mainstream I expect 10G Base-T will become more common, especially on consumer desktop systems. That means also the cost of 10G Base-T switches will need to come down. It also means that other "IOT" home components such as game consoles, streaming boxes, etc.. that decide to offer 10g will probably go for 10G Base-T.
The 10G Base-T ports are physically smaller which is important for non-data center devices. They are also easier to use. You just plug in an ethernet cable and it works. No need to deal with optical transceiver compatibility and all of those problems.
Finally, 10G Base-T is backwards compatible with 1gig ports which will still be used for things like IPMI and other low bandwidth devices. You could just get one 10G Base-T switch and connect up everything you have to it. Going with SFP+ it becomes difficult to find something that juggles enough of both kinds of ports for all of your 10G and 1G devices.
If you were building out a 10g homelab system from scratch today, which technology would you choose for your 10g network connectivity?
Now that 10 gig networking is quickly becoming mainstream I expect 10G Base-T will become more common, especially on consumer desktop systems. That means also the cost of 10G Base-T switches will need to come down. It also means that other "IOT" home components such as game consoles, streaming boxes, etc.. that decide to offer 10g will probably go for 10G Base-T.
The 10G Base-T ports are physically smaller which is important for non-data center devices. They are also easier to use. You just plug in an ethernet cable and it works. No need to deal with optical transceiver compatibility and all of those problems.
Finally, 10G Base-T is backwards compatible with 1gig ports which will still be used for things like IPMI and other low bandwidth devices. You could just get one 10G Base-T switch and connect up everything you have to it. Going with SFP+ it becomes difficult to find something that juggles enough of both kinds of ports for all of your 10G and 1G devices.
If you were building out a 10g homelab system from scratch today, which technology would you choose for your 10g network connectivity?
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