Western Digital WD My Net Switch Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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612 words · ~3 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the WD minet switch this one's going to
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go pretty fast because other than just
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the general news that WD does networking stuff now is pretty much a switch so
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let's get this uh let's see what WD has to say for themselves 8 GB ports okay uh
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Port based quality of service that's cool energy efficient okay so it
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probably turns off ports that you're not using and whatnot and turns down the uh
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the transmission power for shorter cable runs these kinds of Energy Efficiency
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features uh full HD okay uh any gigabit
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switch it's capable full HD auto power down front use ports cable length
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detection for transmit power conservation called that one uh more
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flexibility well Ned design Auto sensing ports Auto duplex detection Port based
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quality of service okay so connect to your router PowerUp expand your network
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yes switches are good for all those things and let's open it up and have a
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look at the minet switch great packaging look at that black internals myet switch
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plug the thing into the thing and then plug the other thing into the other thing three steps very simple if you
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can't hook up a switch then you probably don't have any business running
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networking so don't worry about it these
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are not smart switches these are just uh
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plain old switches I mean don't feel bad if you couldn't hook up a switch my mom
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can't do it um she just calls me and then I deal with it for her so you know
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if you have like a a nephew or a son or a you know creepy uncle or something who
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knows how to do networking then you can get them to do it for you if you if you don't know how to do it so uh let's go
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ahead and have a close look at the myet switch I'm just going to put down on the
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table and let diesel kind of do his camera thing as he sort of looks at it
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and gets some you know as much yeah he's giving me the shrug here as much as you
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can do glamour shots of a network switch see at that look at that shiny and then
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like not shiny so there's a matte finish here and a glossy finish here a yeah if
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we had like a lazy Susan we could like put it on it and be
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like now my arms are twisted see I'm
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stuck I tried uh okay so on the back you've got your 8 gbit ports look at
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that oh this is actually cool okay fine fine they do have a unique feature so
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what they meant by Port based quality of service is you actually plug in
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physically so it's like completely dummy proof your higher priority devices into
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the ports labeled High your mid priority devices into the ports labeled
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creatively mid and your low uh your low
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priority devices into the ports labeled
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cow no low low it's low not cow um they
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weren't going for the confus no I knew it said low I'm just kidding um on the
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front you got your indicator LEDs power in and it's a switch you got
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cooling vents minet switch from w thanks
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