[Soekris] Memory upgrade

[Joel Jaeggli]

Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> This is my first post to the list. I hope I'm not asking something 
> already answered.
> 
> I'm planning on buying a net5501 as Christmas gift for myself. I just 
> can't decide whether I should go for the net5501-60 or the net5501-70. I 
> think the processor is good enough in both versions for my purposes. But 
> I'm not sure 256 MB of memory will be enough. I'm planning to run it as 
> an access point and as a file server. Probably also bit torrent, maybe a 
> small web server and as tftp server for net booting other machines.
> 
> What is your experience, is 256 enough. Is it difficult to upgrade 
> later? I'm not very handy with the soldering iron and I guess finding 
> the memory chips might not be trivial.

So, for a number of applications, 256MB is quite usable. Obviously if
you go whole hog. you may find that's a bit constraining. I have a
couple of them of both sized running various proof of concept
router/firewall/utility application scenarios and I don't routinely find
that I wish to be using the 512MB one vs the 256MB one. There's a couple
places where I'd rather have more IE a gig for a couple ipv4 bgp feeds,
but general purpose utility computers without graphical heads can get by
 quite nicely on 256MB...

> Kind
> Regards,
> Pontus.
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