-----Original Message----- From: Marc Nicholas [SMTP:marc@hippocampus.net] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 1998 2:48 PM To: Weeks, Thomas Cc: 'Kelly Setzer'; sirbruce@ix.netcom.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: RAM and NVRAM for F330

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Weeks, Thomas wrote:

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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

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that would otherwise work FINE in slower, less demanding systems

(PC's).

'scuse me??? Really? I find this somewhat hard to believe...

60ns RAM is widely available, are you saying they're pushing the envelope on that?

I very much doubt the memory architecture on a NetApp is anything more sophisticated than Sun's memory architecture (and I almost guarantee Sun's memory architecture blows away low-end NetApps)...and Sun seem able to use fairly standard parts without too much failure.

[Weeks, Thomas] I'm just telling you what the NetApp engineer that I spoke to told me.

Of the RAM that they get in for filer use, that have to send back they told me that they have like a 30% failure rate (of the exhaustive testing they do).

I don't know how much that has changed (if at all) recently or not... Why don'tcha ask 'em.

Maybe I'm just missing the big picture...

-marc

[Weeks, Thomas]

Tom