botmonster @botmonster.com · 21d A 10GbE home network costs ~$200 now and saturates an NVMe NAS at 1,100 MB/s, ten times gigabit. Switches that ran $500+ in 2023 sell for $80-150 today. 2.5GbE is the trap: it leaves most of your storage speed on the table. What is your homelab backbone speed?
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A Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC goes for ~$23 on eBay with rock-solid Linux support. Cat5e never does 10G; Cat6a is the sweet spot at full 100m. https://botmonster.com/self-hosting/build-10gbe-home-network-budget/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social #Homelab