On 04/16/98 15:01:24 you wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Weeks, Thomas wrote:
|> | [Weeks, Thomas] | RAM on the filer is being run to the very MAX of its specs |(maybe more)... I hear that they have a fairly high failure rate on RAM |that would otherwise work FINE in slower, less demanding systems (PC's).
I highly doubt that. Very few Netapp buyers are running PCs. Most of us are running Sun/DEC/IBM/SGI/etc machines. The F220 is a _P75_ based machine with *NO* L2 Cache. I hardly feel it needs 9ns ram ;)
1. It is very true that Netapp demands more from DRAM than Wintel or Alpha-based NT machines. Probably even than Intel-based Solaris boxes, but I'd be less sure of that. Disbelieve this at your own peril.
2. I'm sure that most Netapp buyers have at least one PC in their Company/School/Organization.
Our F630 is Alpha based, and i seriously doubt it is overunning its ram.
I don't know precisely what you mean by "overrunning", but it does indeed put a heavy demand on it, although my impression is that it's less so than the older Intel boxes. The memory the F630 uses is much more specialized too, so the probability of quality manufacture is probably higher. I don't know though; I've never seen a comparison of F630 memory returns vs. other models.
Bruce