Hi Ben, I would recommend DAC for inside your rack, and fibre for anything that leaves your rack at 10G. If you are looking to get faster than 1G to the desktop machines via an RJ45 copper connection, you can go faster than 1G without jumping all the way to 10G. If you have legacy CAT5e already installed 2.5G capable switches and NIC's should get you a significant speed boost between desktop and switch. Kind regards Murray Southwell -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Ben Jackson Sent: Monday, 8 August 2016 4:35 PM To: MikroTik Australia Public List Subject: [MT-AU Public] 10GBase-T SAN Hi all, I'm looking at implementing a iSCSI SAN / NAS hybrid solution for one of my clients who runs a production studio (24bit multi-track audio and up to 4k video collaboration). I haven't, however had any experience with installing 10Gbe networks as yet, and know very little about them apart from that cat6a is required to go over 100m and that latency is higher with copper vs SFP+. My initial reaction was to go with 10GBase-T as it's a familiar format to me (especially where running cable is concerned) but I'm happy to be convinced on the merits of running fibre. Does anyone have any experiences they can share on this topic? Thanks, Ben Jackson eLogik m:0404 924745 e: ben@elogik.net w: www.elogik.com.au [image: http://www.elogik.com.au] <http://www.elogik.com.au> _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au