Actually, not all ATA PC cards have passed the rigorous
compliance testing (EMI, EDVT, etc) required for support
on Cisco routers. At least I can speak for the Cisco 12000
platform as the product manager of RP pdts.
So Matt is right. Support, reliability as well as safety
should be considered as you make your buying decisions.
You might want to consider comparing the shielding of the
the cards from Cisco to any off-the-shelf cards from the
same third party vendor to get my point. :)
Cheers.
- abe
Matt Ryan wrote:
>
> Support comes into it as well, vendors don't want to support 3rd party
> hardware (in fact they don't even like supporting 2nd-user hardware as we've
> seen on other threads in the past couple of months) so if your network goes
> down and Cisco won't help how much will that cost compare to a few pounds
> (dollars) saved on the flash/memory?
>
> Matt.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave [mailto:dave@hawk-systems.com]
> Sent: 30 April 2002 15:51
> To: Matt Ryan; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [nsp] Using Viking Flash ATA disks in C12000?
>
> >While no one like the Cisco prices for flash (and memory for that matter)
> it
> >seems a false economy when you have bought very expensive high-end hardware
> >to skimp on the flash!
>
> If you are just talking price, you are correct... but performance being
> equal,
> finding the best price or paying for product only and not the brand name
> will
> have little effect on the performance of your solution. All the stuff is
> manufactured by other companies these days anyway, so chances are you are
> getting or can get the same hardware minus the name for significant savings.
>
> IMO
>
> Dave
>
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