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by tonetegeatinst 585 days ago
Fiber is attractive. As someone who wants to upgrade to fiber, the main barrier to entry is the cost of switches and a router.

Granted I'm also trying to find a switch that supports ROCm and rdma. Not easy to find a high bandwidth switch that supports this stuff without breaking the bank.

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Fiber, as in Fibre Channel (FC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel ), not fiber as in "optical fiber" instead of copper cabling.
Fibre Channel is a routed protocol invented specifically to connect block storage arrays to remote servers while making the block storage look locally attached to the OS. And it works REALLY REALLY well.
SN2100/2700 from eBay?