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!
If you’d like to sell a couple of drivers and you’re in Europe, contact me.
Holy shit, I know where to apply for a job next time 😅
I thought disks were suppose to be destroyed
Depends on the data on them. They were erased before I got them of course too.
With great power…
…bill?
88 × 8 Tb? Archive the internet archives.
If the internet archive wants some, I’d love to give some to them ahah
But I’m already archiving a lot of stuff, from Youtube, ISO, and more!
Shared your comment with them (info@archive.org) - you’re awesome!
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.
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…
SSDs were properly destroyed
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.
(Assuming SATA) some people get away with drilling a hole in the half opposite the connector, the actual chip is like 1/4th the size of the drive casing. M.2 form factor is just screwed though.
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.
Dayum son, I’d be building media servers for all my friends and family lol
Damn dude. Nice score. :D
Where do you live that power is so cheap that you can spin that much rust and also can you run extension lead to my place?
I’ve found the disks hurt my power less than choosing a good motherboard/cpu, and using M2 for the OS drive.
Using it drives up power. At idle, my latest 5-drive setup draws 20 watts, it goes up when I’m copying files to it (usually syncing media files from 2 other local storages).
Compared to my old system which was an ancient gaming rig that drew 120w at idle, with only 2 drives (OS and storage).
I also have a 5 disk NAS running some old drives, it’s idle power is so low I’ve forgotten - maybe 15w? The most it could potentially draw is about 60w, since that’s the power supply max - I’ve seen it draw 45w while rebuilding a disk.
At idle, my latest 5-drive setup draws 20 watts
That’s super low. What drives do you have? Are your drives spinning down?
How much (ballpark) power is this using a day or month?
Oh damn. In I was happy 20 years ago about two jet engine like coolers, which ran on 230VAC from a decommissioned computer tomograph
Holy shit dude. You can take like a quarter of that and make an absolutely silly system, and make a decent chunk of change selling the rest.
That electric bill, though. 🤣
And never watching anything 😂
Hey it’s me ur brother…
You lucky bastard, respectfully.
You mean fucking sonobabich right? Respectfully ofcourse.
That mother fucker! respectfully as fuck.
