Second hand Brocade ICX switches are also plentiful and not too power hungry (but they can be loud).
Second hand Brocade ICX switches are also plentiful and not too power hungry (but they can be loud).
They run absurdly hot, and they eat a lot of power.
If you don't have very good ventilation then you may find these modules running at well north of 80C. I ended up having to mount a 120MM PC fan and attach some mini-headsinks to them to keep them under 50C. Just sitting on a desk they were too hot to touch.
You may find that the power budget for your small 8-12 port SFP+ Switch isn't enough to run more than a few of these at once. I have an 8 Port Mikrotik SFP+ switch that can only run about 4 of them. The Quad-Port SFP+ NIC I bought from fs.com (Intel XL710-BM1) can only do two.
Expect to also run into issues if you use old, poor quality or mistreated cables. If you bend them too far (trying to get around a sharp corner) - they will work fine at 1Gbit, but just not work at all at 10Gb.
You may find it's a whole lot cheaper (and more reliable) to just get some optical cable and transceivers if you want to go more than a few meters.
For distances less than a few meters DAC cables are often reasonable value.
From personal experience, I'm now leaving the 10G-BaseT transceivers for runs where I can't run optical (like existing in-wall wiring).