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Originally Posted by OldGeezer
Well yes, but your typical SOHO switch would be layer 2 (a hub being layer 1 and a router layer 3/4).
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At the risk of being pedantic a hub is also a layer 2 device, a repeater (not that you will see many these days) is a layer 1 (physical) device. All switches basically work at layer 2 although there are some which can work at higher layers.
In the OP's case as long as the PC and the NAS are on the same subnet and there are no VLANS involved then data will be switched directly between them. See if you can turn off store and forward on the switch for throughput if it supports it.