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Over the past several months, I have embarked on Phase II of a massive (for my employer) network hardware upgrade. It has been an educational experience. Cisco charges a ton of money for both RAM and Flash Memory upgrades. These upgrades are necessary to be able to use the current and supported IOS versions, like 15.x.
A Cisco 512 MB Compact Flash card at one vendor was $410. An equivalent CF card (from Transcend) was $26 was found. Take a guess which one I ordered?
When it comes to RAM, I was able to upgrade a Cisco 3845 Router from 256 MB to 1 GB for only $87. Buying Cisco parts for this same RAM upgrade would have cost me over $2,400. Hmmm…. Which to choose?
Upgrading my Cisco 2811 routers from 256 MB RAM to 512 MB RAM (using Cisco parts, of course) would cost me just shy of $1,400 per router. No thanks. I’ll go find the 3rd party memory for much cheaper.
