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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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Where I live 100W would cost me something like $25/mo to run, continuously, for the life of the device. I think my 8x10Gb + 24x1g switch draws around 15-20W if I'm not using PoE and I spent around $260 on it. Inside a year the commodity switch becomes cheaper to own even if I were given a whitebox equivalent for free.
If I lived somewhere with lower kWh costs I'd be happy to roll my own whitebox but it's just not viable here.
I do admit I am graced by low power costs due to hydro, and if that wasn't the case I probably wouldn't have done it.