Place to buy cheap DRAM and FLASH? 3

[GottaBeKiN]

Hi, dose anyone know where is a good place to buy cheap DRAM and FLASH for the 3600s and the 2600s, or in general. I've been told that I don't have to buy the ones made for Cisco, any old 72 pinn SIMM DRAM should work in the 3600s. I've checked Ebay and the prices for the 3600s is much more expensive compared to the ones for the 2600xm. Any recommendation other than Ebay?

Kin

 

[DallasBPF]

MemoryX.com

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Dallas, Texas
Telecommunications
CCVP, CCNA, Net+

CCNP in the works

 

[CiscoGuy33]

GottaBeKiN,

I have bought memory, cables and rack ears from Anthony Panda several times and have never had any trouble, he is also a big seller on eBay. He is in Hong Kong but ships US Priority mail

http://www.anthonypanda.com/

When I was at Cisco Networkers several years back - everyone was talking about Anthony Panda for memory and cables for their home labs!

Hope this helps!


E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +

 

[GottaBeKiN]

Thanks DallasBPF and CiscoGuy for the reference.

CiscoGusy, I am from Hong Kong too!!!

 

[maczen]

Looks like you found a winner!!! LoL That said this is not a link to a memory supplier but it is a useful link where router memory is concerned.. I believe that Burt or CiscoG sent this one to me...

http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routermemory.pdf

 

[CiscoGuy33]

GottaBeKiN,

That is funny shipping should not be an issue for you

I have bought from him 3x and my college bought FLASH and DRAM from him when we upgradded our 2611s and 2610s to MAX 64 DRAM and 16 FLASH from 32/8. That is the same that the 3600s use and I did not have one bad stick and we got 20 sticks of 16 FLASH and 20 sticks of 32 DRAM.

I am not kidding when I was at Networkers - EVERYTIME the conversation turned to cables, memory, flash etc - Anthony Panda came up - these were mostly the CCIEs or CCIE wantabes!

Maybe you will get a local town discount


E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +

 

[GottaBeKiN]

Well, I am from Hong Kong, but I live in NYC now. Hey, do you know if I can combine the FLASH in a 3620 or 3640? What I meant is if I have 16MB internal FLASH and I have a PCMCIA 16MB FLASH, could I put an IOS that is bigger than 16MB onto the router?

Kin

 

[CiscoGuy33]

Kin,

GREAT question - I know I ran a larger IOS from my 16 mg FLASH card in my 3620 then the 4mgs it came with with the right boot command (so I had 2 different IOSs - one in FLASH and 1 (bigger/newer one) on the FLASH card.

Here is a link -

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/3600/hardware/notes/PCMCIA.html

With a quick look - I did not see anything about combining the 2!

Let see what others think?


E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +

 

[GottaBeKiN]

Thanks once again for the answer and the link CiscoGuy.