6 servers were decomissioned, Iwas able to only get the disks, RAM, CPUs and Network Card.
The total of this is :
88 x 8TB SAS disks
44 x 16GB RAM sticks (half 2133, half 2400)
6 x v3 Xeon e3 2630
6 x v4 Xeon e5 2640
3 x 10 GB PCIe dual port cards
12 x 1U heatsink
I’m really lucky to have all of these, even if I don’t have a use for all of that for now (except some of the disks)
EDIT: Forgot to mention: All of this for free, I work in a datacenter!
My Jellyfin is also running media from recycled HDDs from work. No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free to get my server going.
I’m super jealous. Whenever we decom servers at work, we’re required to fill out paperwork and provide proof that all HDDs and SSDs were properly destroyed (i.e. rendered completely unusable and wiped) and turned in to our disposal department. The servers themselves also have to be handed over to them. I’m not sure what they do with the servers, but I’m guessing they either repurpose them as emergency replacements for other sites that have hardware failures or they bulk sell them at auctions or something.
I hate when companies do this, SSDs do not need to be shredded, there’s no security benefit whatsoever. You don’t even need to do the whole “write 0s/random data X times” like with HDDs. So damn wasteful ugh.
Our SSDs just have to be wiped but we still have to document and provide proof they were wiped and turned in. HDDs and tapes are a different story and a pain in the ass, though.
Hey! Would you be willing to sell some of them? Looking at setting up a server at home that some of my friends and neighbors can use. I was going to buy them brand new, but I’d be fine with used if your interested in getting rid of some of them.
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That electric bill, though. 🤣
88 x 8TB drives? 704 TB of storage?
You got a whole damn data center lol. Good stuff dude. Was this off of ebay or direct from a company? I’m curious to know the total cost.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention: All of this for free at my work, I work in a datacenter!
Well now im very jealous lol. Good for you man, thats a banger deal.
My Jellyfin is also running media from recycled HDDs from work. No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free to get my server going.
My server got updated a lot, starting with a single 1 TB disk, the a single 4TB disk, to 6 4tb disks and now it will be 10 8TB disks
I also work in a data center, I can’t take anything :(
I thought I was living large with my two 12tb drives I bought for $86 each lol.
With great power…
Nice haul! I hope you also managed to get the small power plant for the drives. That’s not going to be pretty.
that’s true ahah
I’m super jealous. Whenever we decom servers at work, we’re required to fill out paperwork and provide proof that all HDDs and SSDs were properly destroyed (i.e. rendered completely unusable and wiped) and turned in to our disposal department. The servers themselves also have to be handed over to them. I’m not sure what they do with the servers, but I’m guessing they either repurpose them as emergency replacements for other sites that have hardware failures or they bulk sell them at auctions or something.
I hate when companies do this, SSDs do not need to be shredded, there’s no security benefit whatsoever. You don’t even need to do the whole “write 0s/random data X times” like with HDDs. So damn wasteful ugh.
Our SSDs just have to be wiped but we still have to document and provide proof they were wiped and turned in. HDDs and tapes are a different story and a pain in the ass, though.
Yeah… that sucks, but then they’ll tell you about green IT and stuff, but they just throw away and destroy stuff that could be used elsewhere…
While thats an awesome pile of storage, I weep for your electricity bill.
Dayum son, I’d be building media servers for all my friends and family lol
Damn dude. Nice score. :D
I assume they’re past some operational limit. But as long as you have redundancy that’s a risk I’d take for the capacity
With 88 disks, some RAID 5 I think I’m going to be okey if one of them fails! (I also have a backup server)
Go RAID 6 and save some disks for backups.
I mean if you wanna spare 2 or 3 I know a guy
come and get them!
If you’d like to sell a couple of drivers and you’re in Europe, contact me.
Hey! Would you be willing to sell some of them? Looking at setting up a server at home that some of my friends and neighbors can use. I was going to buy them brand new, but I’d be fine with used if your interested in getting rid of some of them.
For now nope, and it’s SAS, do you have use for them ? Also look at serverpartsdeal to buy some nice used drives ! https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drives
Been browsing that site for a few weeks waiting for the perfect time to strike
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