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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!
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.
You lucky bastard, respectfully.
You mean fucking sonobabich right? Respectfully ofcourse.
That mother fucker! respectfully as fuck.
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
Just a heads up, trying to buy Uranium for the reactor on Ebay will get you in trouble real fast, so be careful!
Everyone knows you need to harvest it from smoke detectors like the Nuclear ~~Eagle~~ Boy Scout did.
You just need your mom to date someone that works at a secret government base, "borrow" their badge, swap the uranium with dish soap, and good to go.
I also work in a data center, I can't take anything :(
We have a hard drive degausser and shredder. Lucky bastard taking things home
Yep yep, same. Old droves get destroyed. My word that I'll wipe the drive is apparently not enough.
Gotta issue them a NIST 800-88 certificate and you're golden.
I thought I was living large with my two 12tb drives I bought for $86 each lol.
Damn, where'd you find that deal?
Probably here : https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drives They sold 18TB drives for 100€ last months
I was almost crying while looking for drives to increase the storage space of my current 10TB drives in my UnRaid, because of the price.
You will now be known as "the tears-Minator".
Thank you so much for this link.
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.
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?
With great power...
...bill?
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...
It's an IP issue. Nobody wants to be the one responsible for leaking someone's proprietary design or PII just to make a little bit of cash from selling used drives. My work has 55 gallon drums with a slot on top to dispose of hard drives for this same reason.
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)
I mean if you wanna spare 2 or 3 I know a guy
come and get them!
Hard to tell if this is a proposal to fight over hardware or an offer for free stuff.
I choose to believe the former because it makes me chuckle more.
Let's just make an arena where the nerds fight to win a disk!
"Ugh, now they're both crying..." Covers microphone "Someone hit somebody! God, in my 13 years of UFC announcing, I've never been more embarrassed..."
"What is this one doing??? Is he... what's this weird Arch logo on his laptop"
If you'd like to sell a couple of drivers and you're in Europe, contact me.
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!
Hey it's me ur brother...
While thats an awesome pile of storage, I weep for your electricity bill.