Experience with Third-Party memory (Cisco)?
With all the talk lately about the growth in routes, I got to thinking about 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 third party memory. I'm just wondering if others have used it, and how it's performed, or if it isn't worth the risk. thanks
On 05/08/2014 01:46 PM, Shawn L wrote:
With all the talk lately about the growth in routes, I got to thinking about 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 third party memory. I'm just wondering if others have used it, and how it's performed, or if it isn't worth the risk.
thanks
No direct experience with Cisco but we used to use Kingston memory in Dell servers without any issues.
A few years back, we had to do memory upgrades on our ASAs in order to move 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 out a replacement for it and all was well after that. -Gary -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+gary.dunaway=teamhgs.com@nanog.org] On 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 about 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 third party memory. I'm just wondering if others have used it, and how it's performed, or if it isn't worth the risk. thanks _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ Please make note of our new e-mail domain name: TEAMHGS.COM. Request you to update your address book accordingly. Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Hinduja Global Solutions or postmaster@teamhgs.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. 9284f6a0-bf16-11e3-b1b6-0800200c9a66
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> wrote:
A few years back, we had to do memory upgrades on our ASAs in order to move 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 out a replacement for it and all was well after that.
-Gary
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+gary.dunaway=teamhgs.com@nanog.org] On 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 about 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 third party memory. I'm just wondering if others have used it, and how it's performed, or if it isn't worth the risk.
thanks
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On 08/05/14 17:46, Shawn L wrote:
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 third party memory. I'm just wondering if others have used it, and how it's performed, or if it isn't worth the risk.
As far as I'm aware, there are up to four ISR 3825s still operating somewhere I've worked previously, with Crucial DIMMs in them. The stuff that came out looked pretty bog-standard OEM stuff, too. I suppose it could depend on what type of memory it is, but when it's just regular DDR SDRAM, I don't see any cause for concern for the few tens of pounds it cost (versus £hundreds for Cisco's own) to find out. Tom
This is what your looking for : http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-PC2700U-512MB-DDR-CL2-5-333Mhz-ECC-Memory-38L52 31-/331191705115?pt=US_Memory_RAM_&hash=item4d1c905e1b 512MB DDR CL2.5 Unbuffered/Unregistered CL2.5 - buy 10 and have a huge stack of spares :) -- Geraint Jones Director of Systems & Infrastructure Koding (AS62805) https://koding.com geraint@koding.com Phone (415) 653-0083 On 9/05/14 4:46 am, "Shawn L" <shawnl@up.net> wrote:
With all the talk lately about the growth in routes, I got to thinking about 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 third party memory. I'm just wondering if others have used it, and how it's performed, or if it isn't worth the risk.
thanks
I used some old laptop simms from ebay in my 2801.. Worked like a charm :) On 5/8/14, 10:08 PM, "Geraint Jones" <geraint@koding.com> wrote:
This is what your looking for :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-PC2700U-512MB-DDR-CL2-5-333Mhz-ECC-Memory-38L5 2 31-/331191705115?pt=US_Memory_RAM_&hash=item4d1c905e1b
512MB DDR CL2.5 Unbuffered/Unregistered CL2.5 - buy 10 and have a huge stack of spares :)
-- Geraint Jones
Director of Systems & Infrastructure Koding (AS62805) https://koding.com geraint@koding.com Phone (415) 653-0083
On 9/05/14 4:46 am, "Shawn L" <shawnl@up.net> wrote:
With all the talk lately about the growth in routes, I got to thinking about 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 third party memory. I'm just wondering if others have used it, and how it's performed, or if it isn't worth the risk.
thanks
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