Boris, I’ve got a 16 port 10GbE switch sitting in my rack. It has a small cheap fan that is noisy.
Under my desk, I’ve got a cheap Netgear 1GbE switch 8 ports where 4 have PoE. That has no fan and is quiet.
The faster the switch’s fabric, the more cooling you’ll need.
BTW if you want to go all fiber … Mellanox (Nvidia) has a 16 port 100GbE switch that would be perfect for your machine rack so you can get 100GbE per port on your servers. Assuming you’re running compute and storage along w AI. You could go w a composable system, but you don’t seem like the guy to spend over 50K on hardware just to simulate a customer’s DC.
Of course. I’ve a 16 port Netgear that I don’t use anymore that’s passively cooled.
Sure… as soon as I have some real need for it at home, I’d look at it. Of course with 100Gb you can’t get away with SFPs, you need sat least quads, and that’s entirely different level of pricing both for wiring and for transceivers.
Nope. I can remote into a real data center for far less money.
And anyway, we are veering very far from the point of a discussion, which is what a reasonable network setup for a normal person who wants to listen to music (and probably stream some Netflix) at home, not to emulate OpenAI’s infrastructure at home.
Lots of places to do it; obviously you won’t find it on a shelf at the nearest Office Depot. The question is whether the normal average person, who does not know SFP from IGMP needs commercial grade equipment at home or should install it. They will most likely mess up VLANs, create a loop or two, then start complaining that nothing works.
It all adds up, and, again, what benefit does it actually give to an average person. By the time 40Gbps speeds become even a little bit common in home gear, Cat 8 will be obsolete anyway.
Around that time I was having Ameritech quote me for running dual ISDN (for whopping 128Kbps!) to home. It was… a bit too much!.
For a 500 feet run sure you need some specific wiring (these days you’d want to do that over single-mode fiber) but how many people does it really apply to here? And the ones who do need it probably know why and what is required.
Theoretically, sure. In practice, discounting various “smart home” stuff (vacuums, thermostats, etc.) which is perfectly happy on 2.4GHz WiFi, various household gadgets, even 8K TVs and music streamers etc. will be fine on a 1Gb connection, let alone 10Gb. And they will use copper in the foreseeable future. Unless one needs it right now, putting this in just means that by the time you are going to use it, it will be all obsolete.
This is always your problem – you don’t actually know anything, just repeat the latest thing you’ve heard from some YouTube charlatan.
And anyone (who knows anything) knows that for optimal results you plug in anything that has a plug, and leave the ether as free as possible for anything that needs it.
Here’s the difference between people who actually do work in tech and people who have seen a youtube video about it.
I know what I need and have a setup that support is, with an order of magnitude buffer for future expansion.
People who don’t pay extra or some commercial grade stuff they do not understand “just in case” and then never use any of it because it is overkill, no different from buying a $500 USB cable and “audio grade” switch.
