Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy ( lemmy.world )

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!

partial_accumen ,

While thats an awesome pile of storage, I weep for your electricity bill.

NESSI3 , (edited )

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gravitas_deficiency ,

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.

LifeLikeLady ,
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I thought I was living large with my two 12tb drives I bought for $86 each lol.

TheButtonJustSpins ,

Damn, where'd you find that deal?

Krafting OP ,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

Probably here : https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/hard-drives
They sold 18TB drives for 100€ last months

jjlinux ,

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.

Krafting OP ,
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Keep in mind they are refurbished tho! They will work fine, but they also have a lot of hours on them too!

But you're welcome! They do offer some sweet deals!

jjlinux ,

I tend to replace my drives (if $$$ permits) every 2 to 3 years unless one of them fails before that. And seeing as they are willing to give 2 years of warranty on some of those renewed drives, I'm not really that concerned.

I am, however, buying 2 brand new 20TB drives for parity, which would be my biggest concern. On top of that, I have a mirror of my server in my brother's house over 2K miles away (beats paying cloud failover, for sure).

bigkahuna1986 ,

Hey it's me ur brother...

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

With great power...

Reawake9179 ,

...bill?

peregus ,

If you'd like to sell a couple of drivers and you're in Europe, contact me.

bassomitron ,

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.

Krafting OP ,
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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...

ShepherdPie ,

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.

Krafting OP ,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

Drives, I understand but servers tho...

PolarisFx ,
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eWaste. We have a contract to give an outside company all our stuff. We degauss and shred hard drives and everything else does in a big bin that they pickup every month.

cm0002 ,

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.

Zorsith ,
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(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.

bassomitron ,

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.

Steamymoomilk ,
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Damnn all for free!
Lucky bastard

Lmao
Put her to good use!

Alteon ,

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.

Krafting OP ,
@Krafting@lemmy.world avatar

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

SidewaysHighways ,

Been browsing that site for a few weeks waiting for the perfect time to strike

bjoern_tantau ,
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https://swg-empire.de/pictrs/image/51128588-97c0-4ac3-9089-7cdab28cd509.gif

Sunny ,
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Holy shit, I know where to apply for a job next time 😅

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

I though disks were suppose to be destroyed

Krafting OP ,
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Depends on the data on them. They were erased before I got them of course too.

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