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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!

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Sheeeeeiiiiiitt

God damn I'm jealous.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago

I've been jealous of people, same as you, now it's my turn to shine! Your turn will come!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Me too. I thought these would be a bunch of 1TB HDDs but OP blew us away with them being 8TB.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Somewhere, an ISO27001 auditor’s jimmies started rustling.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

Well now im very jealous lol. Good for you man, thats a banger deal.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You lucky bastard, respectfully.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean fucking sonobabich right? Respectfully ofcourse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

That mother fucker! respectfully as fuck.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Just a heads up, trying to buy Uranium for the reactor on Ebay will get you in trouble real fast, so be careful!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Everyone knows you need to harvest it from smoke detectors like the Nuclear ~~Eagle~~ Boy Scout did.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I also work in a data center, I can't take anything :(

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We have a hard drive degausser and shredder. Lucky bastard taking things home

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

For security, yes, your word is not enough. This would be confidentiality in the CIA triad. I still understand your disappointment seeing probably many dozens of drives get destroyed. I get the majority of drives by scrapping old PC and it pains me to see what people will throw out.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity and availability)

TIL

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Gotta issue them a NIST 800-88 certificate and you're golden.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Damn, where'd you find that deal?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That electric bill, though. 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean if you wanna spare 2 or 3 I know a guy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let's just make an arena where the nerds fight to win a disk!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"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..."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"What is this one doing??? Is he... what's this weird Arch logo on his laptop"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

88 × 8 Tb? Archive the internet archives.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Hey it's me ur brother...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I thought disks were suppose to be destroyed

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