I'll second that. We switched to Procurve switches a couple years ago from 3com stuff. The HP switches are fast and built like tanks. That said we did loose one during a firmware update. Flashed the ROM and waited for it to come back up.... and waited... and waited... called HP support. I remember the guy stating that this is very unusual and the first time he's seen this. The good news is HP shipped out one next day air so all was happy quickly. (apart from the creative wire rerouting that I had to do while the switch was down.)
I would love Procurves at home, but my rather old SMC gigabit switches are working well enough to not justify the upgrade cost. :) Ryan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Julian Zottl Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] What a difference a switch makes! Procurve's are great switches. For any Enterprise customers out there, I highly recommend them. They have served me well at a couple of companies! ---- Julian On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar < [email protected]> wrote: > Just wanted to share my experiences regarding my foray into switches. > Initially I used the switch that came with the router. However, since > getting my Windows Home Server, I now regularly transfer several hundred > gigabytes at a time. As you would imagine 10/100 just did not cut it > for me. I looked around and settled on a nice 3Com gigabit switch > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1ZA0G/ref=ox_ya_oh_product) and > it served me quite well for almost 1 year. As my devices grew and my > server balooned to 8 TB of storage, I was abusing the little switch to > oblivion. > > After doing a bit of searching around, I settled on > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I7SWLO/ref=ox_ya_oh_product) and > all I can say is that I am one happy camper! I know this seems odd, but > the performance change was quite noticeable. Before, I would feel the > 3Com switch struggling during multi computer transfers (i.e copying > 100GB from computer A -> B and simultaneously from C -> D). But now, I > feel that doing the same exercise on the ProCurve is much faster. > > Also, having a metal case and a web UI also helps. > > All-in-all, I am one happy camper! > > Highly recommended for anyone out there! > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
