[171682] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Experience with Third-Party memory (Cisco)?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Knipe)
Fri May 9 01:06:35 2014
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Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 07:06:29 +0200
From: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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Running 6500's and 7200's with 3rd party memory... No issues.
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Gary Dunaway <Gary.Dunaway@teamhgs.com> wro=
te:
> A few years back, we had to do memory upgrades on our ASAs in order to mo=
ve to 8.3 code. All was done with 3rd party memory kits. There have been no=
performance issues we've noticed with them. The one issue we had was that =
one of the memory sticks in the kit was bad. The vendor immediately sent ou=
t a replacement for it and all was well after that.
>
> -Gary
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+gary.dunaway=3Dteamhgs.com@nanog.org] O=
n Behalf Of Shawn L
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 11:47 AM
> To: nanog
> Subject: Experience with Third-Party memory (Cisco)?
>
> With all the talk lately about the growth in routes, I got to thinking ab=
out upgrading the memory in a couple of my routers.
>
> Does anyone have experience using third-party "guaranteed compatible"
> memory.
>
> With Cisco's discount it looks like I can upgrade for $5k vs $700 with th=
ird party memory. I'm just wondering if others have used it, and how it's p=
erformed, or if it isn't worth the risk.
>
> thanks
>
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Regards,
Chris Knipe
