Link Aggregation & Switch Question

zom247 · 8 Oct 2015 at 16:36

I've got a TP Link SG1008D switch (the square one). Can anyone tell me if this supports link aggregation as my new NAS has this feature.

Cheers

bledd · 8 Oct 2015 at 16:49

No it doesn't.

Typically you're looking around the £100+ mark for a smart managed switch with Link Aggregation.

These are the typical features to look for..

802.3ad
LACP
Link aggregation

In reality for a home user, it's super overkill.

Steveocee · 8 Oct 2015 at 19:56

You probably wouldn't benefit from it anyway. My Sata3 HDD Max's out at ant 145MB/s direct writing to it, teaming 2 gigabit links up would give you about 250MB/s throughput. So yeah, extra cable for about 20MB/s.

DJMK4 · 8 Oct 2015 at 21:40

In the home there is no real benifit for your throughput needs, even with redundancy are you really that bothered?

Caged · 8 Oct 2015 at 22:12

There's nothing stopping you connecting both NAS ports to the switch and setting a different IP address on each, so you could have your HTPC connecting using one IP, and everything else uses a different one.

Hard to see why you'd bother though.