What's inside of Cisco MDS Switch DS-C9100 Series DS-C9124-K9 Multilayer Fabric Switch

Taking a look at an old decommissioned Cisco MDS Multilayer Fabric Switch, teardown a little bit and feed our curiosity by checking out what's inside of it.

[@SrKevinWolf90]

An old school switch, very good quality (especially because of those high quality Os-con/Sanyo capacitors), built to withstand a lot of battle.
The current ones, one voltage drop and they break xDD. The switches of today are worthless, low quality capacitors, and bad designs. I have a D-LINK Gigabit from 2010, but designed in the old fashioned way, it has been working for more than 5 years and has never frozen.

[@Beykoz1]

@@SrKevinWolf90 no doubt, very good point! nothing made to last nowadays. What sucks is that this technology moves on, and we have to retire these manufacturing legends that they served the purpose for so long without a failure. This was in place in a well maintained data center about 8 years, never failed once!!!