You can take a look at mikrotik, their switches are really cheap and some of them are even layer 3, but I don’t know about their availability in the US.

I don’t have one yet, but their 4 port 100 gig switch looks verry tempting.

10 gig sfp+ isnt that expensive or power hungry anymore. You can get a new switch for ~100$ now. A complete 2.5 gig network is probably more expensive as you can’t really get used nics.

10 gig sfp+ isnt that expensive or power hungry anymore. You can get a new switch for ~100$ now. A complete 2.5 gig network is probably more expensive as you can’t really get used nics.