Well, there isn't much to say about this switch... except that when i bought them, they were well over £200! (about 3 years ago)
As for transfer rates, with a 100mb full duplex switch, you should be able to copy a 650mb file in under 5-6 minutes. Full duplex meaning it can send and receive data simultaneously, theoretically boosting the speed to 200mb. Of course this is all theoretical, and samba over ethernet is only 50-60% efficient. If you transfer a file with FTP you should be able to saturate the net connection easily and transfer files even quicker than over samba.
Older models have a manual MDI-X (on one port only) thou recent models now have auto MDI-X on all ports, so you can use crossover or straight cables and it won't matter :) The older models ran at a high ampage (not that good) of around 3A, 5v. They now sensibly put it to around 12v and around 1A. This sucker does get hot during the summer, but that's only because it has no active cooling.
All the cooling is passive and so this switch is fantastically quiet :) very good for the bedroom!
After 2 years of owning a couple , it;s served me well... and I have upgraded to a couple of gigabit switches a while ago...
Hopefully the gig switches will serve me as good as these :-)
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