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Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy

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!

Grass ,

Damn so jelly... fin

hperrin ,

Damn dude. Nice score. :D

mudle , (edited )
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https://i.imgflip.com/695uec.jpg

slurpinderpin ,

Dayum son, I'd be building media servers for all my friends and family lol

gnuplusmatt ,

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?

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

How much (ballpark) power is this using a day or month?

BearOfaTime ,

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.

rambos ,

At idle, my latest 5-drive setup draws 20 watts

That's super low. What drives do you have? Are your drives spinning down?

BearOfaTime ,

It's a mix of crap I've acquired over the years, all 1TB drives, 3.5",most 5-10 years old, in an old Drobo I inherited. Yea, it's a massive risk, but it's one of 3 storage systems replicating data locally, plus a Crashplan backup.

Since it's 5 drives, I'm pretty sure it spins them down - at best if they drew 3w each, it'd be 15w in drives alone.

Running it on a smart switch, I've never seen it draw more than 30w, and that's at boot time with 5 drives.

My 3-drive Proxmox box (a Dell SFF) drives are a mix of spinning metal and SSD (2.5"), it idles about 20w, peaks at 100w when I'm converting video files with a VM. That hardware is about 5 years old too, 32gb of ram, booting from an M2 drive.

My use-case is very high idle time (95%+?), so I'm targeting lowest idle power consumption. Pretty much anything will suck power once I'm doing anything heavy (like video conversion).

justme ,

Oh damn. In I was happy 20 years ago about two jet engine like coolers, which ran on 230VAC from a decommissioned computer tomograph

irotsoma ,
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That electric bill, though. 🤣

amphetaminisiert ,

And never watching anything 😂

fixmycode ,
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and the partner still prefers Netflix, because they hate to think what they want to watch

BearOfaTime ,

Lol.

There's a feature in Kodi to play random stuff from a selection.

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.

bigkahuna1986 ,

Hey it's me ur brother...

NGC2346 ,

You lucky bastard, respectfully.

werefreeatlast ,

You mean fucking sonobabich right? Respectfully ofcourse.

Threeme2189 ,

That mother fucker! respectfully as fuck.

peregus ,

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

alekwithak ,

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

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

alekwithak ,

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

Lemongrab ,

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.

brbposting ,

CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity and availability)

TIL

justme ,

Having a reliable drive erasing setup on site is not a thing? That sounds economically better to me

BearOfaTime ,

It's not as secure as simply destroying a drive.

And it's not like you're going to reuse the drives internally - if you were, there's no issue - reformat and move on. But that doesn't really happen either - each project has accounting, and it's more effort to adjust the accounting, plus the risk of moving a used drive.

Risk really drives a lot of enterprise stuff. Good way to lose your job is to accept risks, especially ones like this that can be completely mitigated by simply destroying drives. That money has been amortized/allocated already, so it's a much better value than the risk.

randombullet ,

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

Cataphract ,

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.

Steamymoomilk ,
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Damnn all for free!
Lucky bastard

Lmao
Put her to good use!

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

With great power...

Reawake9179 ,

...bill?

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

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