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I've been searching for the same thing and the cheapest is the QNAP QSW-2104-2T for $160 USD which seems to be the same as the Trendnet TEG-S762. It has 2 10G multigig ports and 4 2.5G. My eventual goal is to have NAS and desktop on 10G and rest on 2.5G. Unfortunately my NAS setup can't really take advantage of the 5G+ speeds and 10G PCIE cards are not competitively priced so it will get a $17 2.5G PCIE card for now.

It may be the time to switch to fiber. You may be too young to remember when ethernet switched from coax (10Base2) to twisted pair (10BaseT), but the economics look like it will soon be time to make the physical media jump again.

Extreme bought Broadcom’s copper 10g line, so look to used units of theirs.