On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Jaye Mathisen wrote:

| |Well, I would suspect it's the same as the 540 memory, which they list.

540 and 630 ram is different. Simms vs Dimms.

540 uses 1M NVRAM simms, 630 uses 4M nvram simms.

We only buy the EXACT P/N's that netapp uses....Samsung DRAM, and DS NVRAM.

Jonah |Sometimes you have to try a few times, they have various quality levels |of sales people. | |The first time I wanted 540 memory, I found it on the web page, and |was reading her the part number and she was telling me it didn't exist. | |Called back, spoke to a different person, and no problem. | |On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, David Power wrote: | |> I tried that, kingston went "netapp 630, duhhh". That was totaly |> unexpected from them. I've always had great support from them before. |> |> |> --- On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:04:48 -0800 (PST) Jaye Mathisen |> mrcpu@cdsnet.net wrote: |> |> > |> >Call Kingston, they had the NVRAM and RAM that Netapp used as I recall, |> >and it plugs in and works fine, and you don't have to get taken to the |> >cleaners. |> > |> >On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, David Power wrote: |> > |> >> 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. |> >> |> >> |> >> --- 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 |> >> >> |> >> >>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |> >> >>Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions" |> >> >>vox://416.979.9000 fax://416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net |> >> >> |> >> >> |> >> >> |> >> > |> >> > |> >> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> >> >------ |> >> > |> >> >Mike Bosch |> >> >Regional Manager |> >> >Network Appliance Australia - New Zealand |> >> > |> >> >Phone: 61-41-728-7345 |> >> >Email: mbosch@netapp.com |> >> > |> >> > |> >> >********************************************************************* |> >> > FAST SIMPLE RELIABLE MULTI-PROTOCOL |> >> >********************************************************************* |> >> > |> >> > |> >> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> >> >------ |> >> > |> >> > |> >> |> >> -----------------End of Original Message----------------- |> >> |> >> |> >> David Power |> >> V-P Operations |> >> Insync Internet Services Inc. |> >> |> >> |> >> |> > |> |> -----------------End of Original Message----------------- |> |> |> David Power |> V-P Operations |> Insync Internet Services Inc. |> |> |> |

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