[j-nsp] Sandisk Extreme III 1G CF card compatibility

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:juniper-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Dave Diller
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 1:15 PM
> To: Juniper-NSP
> Subject: [j-nsp] Sandisk Extreme III 1G CF card compatibility
>
> This is an FYI, and a separate issue form Pekka's discovery that
> these
> faster cards can hog CPU when being written.
>
> It turns out that some SanDisk Extreme III 1G cards are Juniper
> friendly, and others are not.  We purchased three at the same time
> from the same CompUSA.  Of the three, two do not work and the third
> one is fine. The symptom is that the non-functional ones time out and
> you can't install anything on them (but 6509's are fine with them, so
> they'll be redeployed there ;-)

As a follow-up to this, I've found the Silicon Systems SSD-C01GI-3100 1G flash has worked pretty well so far in our lab.  I've not tested in production yet, but haven't seen any problems thus far in the lab - running two months and counting.

-evt