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Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: halfelite on May 06, 2014, 09:04:37 PM ---most consumer grade routers are slow. its why they only cost 100$ but once you bump up to small business and above you start paying 500$+ if you want fast connections between local devices buy a switch and just use the router for nat translation.
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lol ... so this router is not enough? I don't understand how I would plug the thing anyways. I've used switches before. But where would I plug it in?
Would it be
NAS > Router > Switch > Devices?
> = to
I mean, if I use that router then I'm good to go right? What's the big idea of using a switch, again? Isn't the router enough speed to justify?
Tri_Edge:
That link leads nowhere.
A switch is only needed if you need more ports and bandwidth than what your router can provide.
Kind of like this
modem->router->switch(if needed)->devices(NAS, PC, Console and what not)
kitamesume:
^yes like that, but keep note that the router still manages wifi so those falls onto the router.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on May 06, 2014, 10:27:30 PM ---
lol ... so this router is not enough? I don't understand how I would plug the thing anyways. I've used switches before. But where would I plug it in?
Would it be
NAS > Router > Switch > Devices?
> = to
I mean, if I use that router then I'm good to go right? What's the big idea of using a switch, again? Isn't the router enough speed to justify?
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Lets not get ahead of ourselves. We are just talking worse case scenario. Your scenario sounds clean cut nothing fancy needed. build the NAS and be fine with one NIC and your router handling the traffic with its built in switch.
stand alone switches are just used to extended your network if you need more then the 4 standard ports on most routers or if you want to be very efficient with your network traffic. 99% of home setups do not need this. Just some of us strange people that have large networks or push a lot of traffic around. I personally needed a switch because when I moved in I wired every room in my house with two cat6 cables so I needed a big 24 port switch to handle all that if needed.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on May 06, 2014, 03:33:10 PM ---Interesting. Yes that's good to know. Though the only person who will be able to delete, edit and transfer files will be me. But yeah I see what you mean. Btw, WD reds 4tb on sata 2 versus sata 3 is no difference? Or is there a difference?
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With most mechanical HDDs, the connection speed past SATA I will pretty much only affect your HDD cache performance. Most caches are 64MB or smaller, so don't expect a huge difference.
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