Re: Experience with Third-Party memory (Cisco)?

[Chris Knipe <savage () savage za org>]

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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Regards,
Chris Knipe