Originally Posted by
imwjl It's rare when a modestly priced or SOHO grade switch is high performance and I've found them to be problems staging systems so that's why I suggested a Time Machine drive earlier.
Even if they are lower performance, it’s not going to matter that much. Migration Assistant is not known for its performance, but for its ease of use
I did use Time Machine to do a full system restore after having my MacBook Pro’s logic board replaced (automatic deletion of the on-board drive), and it took 15 hours for 200GB of data (on a consumer-grade 200$ router from 2015). Point is: Time Machine is not necessarily fast
Originally Posted by
imwjl I might be overly cautious here mixing work experience with home computing experience. Your switch looks like it has PoE so it might be a newer or new enough generation to work fine.
Yeah, my switch has PoE, but it is still considered as a SOHO switch.