10gig network. 10gbe, sfp+ and fiber

[intertan]

I am slowly getting into 10gb networking in my house. I have a mixture of 10gbe cards, sfp+ ports in servers and network gear and a few sfp+ transceivers.

Mainly I am wondering if for example I have a 16 port switch that only takes sfp+ transceivers, also have another switch that can also take sfp+ transceivers say in my garage at what point is it worth using fiber over a cat6a run?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id use fiber over 10gb-baset almost anywhere I can. Its cheaper, lower latency, lower power. No reason not to.

 

There are some pretty cheap sfp+ switches like the mikrotik ones.