>
> On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, John G. Thompson wrote:
>
> > - NVRAM is good for 10 to 20 THOUSAND writes.
> > Even at 1 thousand writes, and a reset every day of the year
> > the NVRAM is good for 2.7 YEARS! Reset the modem once a week and
> > the NVRAM is good for 19.2 YEARS!
> >
> My question is if you are writing the exact same string to the modem
> every time, when the nvram fails, what type of failure is it? If it is a
> burn in type of failure that would be cool (permanent init config.).
> Anybody know the answer??
I haven't seen enough NVRAM failures to give you an idea. Sorry.
> how long would it last at every 5 minutes??
83.3333333... hours, approximately. :)
JGT
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