Hardware thoughts?

[Magnus33]

Got a older system laying around with a Crosshair II formula with a Phenom 9850 and 4 gigs of ram.
Also got a 120 gig ssd
Tplink switch 16 port

Iam guessing this is likely overkill in some areas but i have the parts sitting around.

Any downsides you can see to using this?

[johnpoz]

@magnus33 said in Hardware thoughts?:

Any downsides you can see to using this?

Its power hungry.. what specific tplink switch... Are you wanting to do vlans with it?

[stephenw10]

Hard to argue with stuff you've already got as a test at least.

Come buy hardware from us when you're done testing.

Steve

[Magnus33]

@johnpoz
TP-SG1016DE

Likely going to do vlans.

Agreed it somewhat power hungry for the job but for the moment its a quick fix tell we decide where everything is going and how.

[johnpoz]

ok I think that model of tplink does vlans correctly their cheap 5 and 8 port do not.. All ports are stuck in vlan 1 and can not be removed. I think they released a firmware fix for v3, but if your on v2 your stuck with a POS...

[Magnus33]

@johnpoz

Thankfully V3 as i noticed that issue on the older models and got this one on sale :)

[stephenw10]

I've got the v1 of that switch and.....

Works fine as an unmanaged switch.

Steve