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!

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      53·
      7 months ago

      Oh yeah, forgot to mention: All of this for free at my work, I work in a datacenter!

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        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.

        • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          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

      • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        7 months ago

        Yep yep, same. Old droves get destroyed. My word that I’ll wipe the drive is apparently not enough.

      • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Yeah does anyone else wonder if this screams of incompetence from upper management? OP was ONLY able to get the disks, RAM, CPUs and Network Card. Sounds like someone higher up gave the “ok” just thinking the “Server” frame was the important part security wise. It would be an interesting scenario to see if the data center was able to upgrade the system while keeping all of the base components compatible and everything under cost or if this was just a screw up.

  • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    Nice haul! I hope you also managed to get the small power plant for the drives. That’s not going to be pretty.

  • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    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@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      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…

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        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.

  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    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