Ryan,
Can not say that Procurve switches were not mentioned when I converted
from 10/100 switches to 10/100/1000 switches some time back. I chose to
go with a pair of Dell PowerConnect 2716's. The home LAN has never been
as nice as it is now. And, I still have not started to play with
"jumbo-frames."
Next time, maybe the Procurve's.......... :)
Best,
Duncan
Ryan Vorachek wrote:
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!
