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Anyone got the switch in the subject? Is it any good?

I'm after a gigabit switch (minimum of 4 ports) to make transfers over my network a bit quicker.

Am I right in saying if I connect the gigabit switch into my router (which has it's own 100Mbps switch built in) then I'll still get gigabit speeds when transferring between computers over the network as they don't need to use the router to do that? Just making sure.

Thanks
Craig
 
I had one, found on occassions it dropped gigabit speeds to fast ethernet, so bought an HP ProCurve switch, have a look @ the 8 port HP ProCurve 1400...
 
I've got one, it is good for the price. Speed will obviously vary depending on what you are copying to/from and the file size but either way it is far quicker than 10/100, which is what I wanted so does the job.

I'll copy some large files and grab a screenshot of the speed tomorrow.
 
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Memphis said:
With regards to your second question, yes you will still get gigabit transfer speeds.
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Thanks for confirming :)

jbloggs said:
I had one, found on occassions it dropped gigabit speeds to fast ethernet, so bought an HP ProCurve switch, have a look @ the 8 port HP ProCurve 1400...
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That looks quite good, I'll check out some reviews etc.

Duke said:
I've got one, it is good for the price. Speed will obviously vary depending on what you are copying to/from and the file size but either way it is far quicker than 10/100, which is what I wanted so does the job.

I'll copy some large files and grab a screenshot of the speed tomorrow.
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Cool. Thank you. Most of the time it's fairly large files (ranging from 500MB to a few GB), and it's almost always to another computer, so no NAS limitations or anything.
 
Here you go. This is copying one large file from one PC to another.

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Duke said:
Here you go. This is copying one large file from one PC to another.

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Thanks for the screenshot :)

The speeds look good, much better than the 8-9MB/s I get at the moment. Are those speeds solid and reliable when copying larger files? What's it like when copying lots of smaller files?

At those speeds I'd almost be limited by the hard drive in the destination PC! Luckily most of the PCs in the network have modern drives capable of 80-100MB/s and mine has a RAID 0 array so should be able to max out the switch most of the time.
 
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I am looking to buy the Netgear.

I am sick of 11 mbs with my current setup when transfering 4-8gb files to my WHS

Is it good?

How much is the HP ProCurve switch?

Whats the model exactly?
 
I have the HP ProCurve 1400-8G (8 x 1Gb ports) and can't fault it really. Costs about £50.

Using iperf I can get over 900Mbps transfer rate, but real world transfer rates are limited by my hard disks, so about 300-400Mbps.
 
BlueMhz said:
I have the HP ProCurve 1400-8G (8 x 1Gb ports) and can't fault it really. Costs about £50.

Using iperf I can get over 900Mbps transfer rate, but real world transfer rates are limited by my hard disks, so about 300-400Mbps.
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No way?

Thats just awsome...I'm getting 11mbs with my setup


BTW whats iperf?

oh and have you a screenshot of say a 8gb transfer at those speeds in win7?
 
BlueMhz said:
I have the HP ProCurve 1400-8G (8 x 1Gb ports) and can't fault it really. Costs about £50.

Using iperf I can get over 900Mbps transfer rate, but real world transfer rates are limited by my hard disks, so about 300-400Mbps.
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Another happy HP user here. Can't fault it.
 
I recently revamped my home network, so had a chance to optimize everything :)

Got a bargain on a nice Intel PCI-E server-grade NIC a few months ago which I put in my server, and then when I bought the HP switch, as well as machines connecting at 1Gbps, I also enabled jumbo frames too, which give it a boost. Also my file transfers are using the SMB2 protocol (Windows Vista/Server 2008 upwards) which is more efficient than original SMB/CIFS protocol.

Though 11Mbps (that's 1MB/s) seems a little low if you are on a 100Mb network? I would have thought 60Mbps (that's about 7-8MB/s) would be more the average.

As MagicBoy says, the HP 1400-8G is silent, no fans at all :)
 
No probs Easyrider.

I did a little research before I upgraded to a gigabit network, and in various forums I read lots of people who were surprised that they only received 2x or 3x the performance over 100Mb, even though the difference between 100Mb and 1GB is 10x.

The reason is to get the best performance out of your gigabit network, you also need to make sure the surrounding components in your systems are suitable for gigabit too. So that's things like your hard disks, network cards, cabling etc, because generally you are only going to be as fast as your slowest component in the chain.
 
I'll say get the HP Procurve, slightly more expensive but worth it. I've had one since Xmas and it's a cracker - you won't regret it.

As for the managed version - I've never seen a need for it but if the price as good then itd be a shame not to...
 
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