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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

As soon as switches get affordable enough, I do plan to try.

But my data center is an assortment of Raspberry Pi and similar. I’m not going to buy some used enterprise switch with a roaring fan and huge electrical consumption to connect my quiet, efficient datacenter.

So far I only have two devices that can talk greater than 1G, it’s more the number of things that have to talk across that “trunk”