In message Chameleon.980326065754.dpower@blue.insync.net, David Power writ es:
Have you priced 630 memory lately? I was quoted $12,000 for a 32 meg nvram, 256 meg system ram upgrade. Thats not dropping to me.
We just paid NetApp $4000 to up the NVRAM on our F330 from 2MB to 8MB. 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 a list of "approved" vendors for memory and disk. The customers would get a better price, and NetApp would look alot nicer.
jason
--- On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:30:52 +1100 Mike Bosch mbosch@netapp.com wrote:
Marc,
As I recall, Cisco was requiring 64MB and recommending 128MB on most ISP 7500s over a year ago. Whatever......the point is that memory
requirements
will continue to grow over time.
The good news is that as more features have required more memory, the
price
of memory has dropped at an even faster rate.
MJB
At 22:21 25/03/98 -0500, Marc Nicholas wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Mike Bosch wrote:
A Filer is generically much more like a router than a general purpose
Unix
or NT box, but we still require much less space than Cisco's IOS, for
example.
Excuse me? You require less memory than IOS? Did I suddently reappear
in
another universe where IOS requires 128mb to run? :-p
You can even run a couple of full BGP views in a Cisco with 64mb -- and that's to compensate for Cisco's braindead table archietecture.
-marc
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