Netgear Prosafe GS724T-300NAS 24 Port Gigabit Smart Switch Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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689 words · ~3 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of a pretty good value neture switch this is from their
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Pro safe series it is the GS 724
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t-300 Nas and it is a 24 Port gigabit
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smart switch with webbased management and uh so yeah if you're looking for
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basically if you need a Smart Switch
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okay with webbased management and you need a bunch of gigabit ports because
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most inexpensive switches are still using 10 ports for the bulk of them this
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is pretty much the one to get it's around the $200 Mark and we're going to
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be using this for a really cool little project where we show you how with okay
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it's not cheap but for about 1,000 bucks plus drives you can turn your home
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storage server into a 4 G home storage
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server that is capable of streaming 1 gabit per second so a gigabit network
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connection to multiple computers within your house all concurrently which means
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at the same time so on the front we find a net gear logo we find some indicators
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for the various 24 ports including their speed their link uh activity so green is
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for gigabit yellow is for 100 megabit
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you can see we've got 24 ports
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okay just a sec so these two right here
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are fiber modules I was checking to see if they were 10 GB capable but it makes
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sense that they're module base sorry sorry sorry they're not modules they're
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empty they have placeholders in them um so yeah it would make sense that on a
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$200 switch they're not so you can put 1 gig Fiverr modules in here which will
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allow you to run over greater distances if you have the desire to do that pretty
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much okay factory default reset okay and
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here you can see a beefy looking heat sink going on and we got a power power
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port and some more ventilation some more beefy looking heat sinks you can tell
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the power supply is here uh it comes with a pretty cool little chart that
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tells you all about nit Gear's various switches and the features they have
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which is what we handily looked at this one for so you can see this is a smart
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managed switch whereas when you get into the more expensive stuff you get into
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the fully managed switches which have more features and can do all kinds of
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like more awesome and interesting stuff so the GS uh 724 T is the one that we're
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looking at here which which is it's got like it's all got all kinds of great
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stuff like Max bandwidth that it's capable of meantime between failure
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which is around 500,000 hours 21.5 wats
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of power consumption and a lifetime warranty on the hardware and the power
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supply it doesn't include much although it does include a useful little disc
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that has an application that allows you to easily plug your switch into your
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network and then not have to try and figure out what address to type in to
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access it it'll just find it on the network and then it'll tell you what the IP is so resource CD
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and uh as well as your documentation for the switch itself I think that's pretty
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much it we're just unboxing this so that we can get on with that project so uh
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Slick's saying something to me I don't know what he's saying to me I don't
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know he was telling me to say lifetime
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warranty um which I'm pretty sure I already said so don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos well Slick's going to fail in the
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video I guess I I deserve to have one fail as well it comes with a power cable
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as well as ears for mounting it into a uh into a rack and screws for mounting
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it into a rack