We bought RAM and NVRAM a few months ago for our F220. Note these part numbers below are probably only good for the F220. Research before upgrading on your own!
For comparision sake:
NVRAM Dallas Semiconductor - 214-450-0429 Part #90-2229T-070 $84 per meg as of 12/9/97
RAM Kingston RAM via Spectrum Trading - 408-655-4000 Part #KTM8X36L-60G (8Mx36, 60ns, gold) $172 per 32 meg as of 12/8/97
Each of these vendors assured us the products were well tested before being sent to us and we have had zero problems as a result of using them.:
Thu Mar 26 08:00:19 PST [statd]: 8:00am up 102 days, 6:21 2777057436 NFS ops
As an aside, you gotta love the uptimes these NetApps can produce! Anyone have more than a year of uptime? Show us your amazing stats!
For normal RAM, think very seriously before buying anything but Kingston. Normal RAM varies widely in quality.
Chris
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Jason D. Kelleher wrote:
We just paid NetApp $4000 to up the NVRAM on our F330 from 2MB to8MB. That's over $650 for each 1MB SIMM! When I asked our Sales Rep about the cost, I was quoted the "We do in house testing" line. Anyway, two of the SIMMs we were sent were bad... Very disappointing.
I think it'd work out best for everyone if they just published alist of "approved" vendors for memory and disk. The customers would get a better price, and NetApp would look alot nicer.
jason