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09 SEP 2026hardware

Ubiquiti USW-Pro-XG-10-PoE: One U of 10GbE That Carries Your Whole Rack

$699 for a 1U switch with ten PoE+++ 10GBASE-T ports, two SFP+ uplinks, a 400 W budget, and L3 routing. ServeTheHome tore it down — inside is a Realtek RTL9313 you've seen in $250 switches, which is exactly why this price works.

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07 SEP 2026hardware

400GbE for the Basement: The MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-hRM Is the Cheap On-Ramp to a Terabit Backplane

Four QSFP56-DD 400G ports, redundant power, and RouterOS management in a half-width box that street-prices around $1,100 — STH just ran it as an AI-cluster RDMA backend.

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07 SEP 2026hardware

QNAP's $549 Switch Is the 2.5GbE Backbone Your Cat5e Has Been Waiting For

The QSW-M2130 puts 24x 2.5GbE ports and a real 10GbE backhaul in a 1U box for $549 — no new cabling required, in stock at the QNAP store right now.

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